Institut Le Rosey is one of the most expensive and elite schools in the world. Located in its own hectare park, the school features tennis courts, swimming pools, stables and a farm located inside a reconstructed 14th-century castle. Outside this territory, the school owns a campus in the Alps and a yacht on the waters of the Mediterranean. This exceptionally high-paying institution is isolated from virtually the entire world, despite controversy over rising inequality and the emergence of a new class of wealthy people.
Le Rosey's educational model cannot be replicated on any significant scale, but tuition fees - as well as additional costs - are of little concern to the wealthy parents of most of the students attracted from around the world. Le Rosey is Switzerland's leading international boarding school , the oldest school in the country and arguably one of the most expensive in the world, with an alumni list never fully published.
The educational institution was founded in by Paul Karnal, today it is headed by Christoph Goodin, the 5th director in years. The school selects the smartest among the richest - talented students from ordinary families have little chance: 30 students attend classes because their parents teach on campus, and 3 more receive scholarships every year.
The rest are paid at full rate. As with several other elite Swiss schools created in the late 19th century, control remains in the hands of a single executive family, who insists that prices, not profits, determine the face of the institution.
We feel like we can do what we want without limits. Switzerland's elite boarding house contains full-time teachers and over 20 part-time teachers, with a teacher-to-student ratio of 1 to Rachel Gray, head of music and arts, coordinates individual lessons per week across a wide range of instruments, even bagpipes.
Le Rosey students receive an exceptional education. Students prefer to study in English or French, additional lessons are conducted in their native language. Rachel Gray notes that only the most successful candidates are selected: the competition is 10 students for a place in high school.
They choose successful students in sports, academic work. The management notes that this school is not only for wealthy students who are interested in expensive things: students without a penchant for learning, sports or art will not find it easy to study here. Le Rosey accepts students from 8 to 18 years old.
The study is carried out within the framework of a bilingual curriculum, the school offers the study of language and literature in 25 different languages, so that students remain within the home culture. Morning classes start at 8 am, lessons last 40 minutes. After lunch, classes continue until Until the evening, students engage in a variety of sports, arts and technology - important aspects of local education.
School rules stipulate that students must play sports for at least 1 hour daily, art - once a week. The personalized day schedule includes up to 23 different activities per day to choose from, from indoor and outdoor swimming to football, tennis, athletics, yoga, pilates, horse riding and sailing.
A little less than lessons are available for students a year. Students can become part of a theater troupe, learn how to cook, make virtual reality films, draw, work with a 3D printer, or help build a school nanosatellite, to name just a few of the activities on offer. Le Rosey focuses on extracurricular activities, for which it takes lessons directly to the ski slopes.
Competitions are held all year round, such as the traditional swimming around a nearby island on Lake Geneva. The school's rulebook warns that smoking and drugs are unacceptable, and regular checks and random tests are carried out.
The school provides traditional education: etiquette, table behavior, secular treatment. Since , when Henry Carnal, the founder's heir, traveled to Gstaad to cheer up a handful of students at the residence during the war, the school has moved all its activities to a second campus in the alpine resort.
Until now, from January to March, students study on the "winter" campus, getting the opportunity to engage in seasonal sports. Students arrive at the main campus in September and have breaks in October and December. Then, after Christmas, they head to a campus in the quaint town of Gstaad — a tradition for Le Rosey since Students can ski four times a week. To make up for this, they have Saturday morning lessons.
There are currently students between the ages of 8 and 18 at Le Rosey. They come from 67 countries, and there is a perfect gender split.
They're expected to be bilingual and can study up to four languages at a time, including Dzongkha or Swahili. The library has books in over 20 languages. A full Le Rosey education is split into four stages: juniors, cadets, jeunes seniors, and seniors.
Dormitories are shared between two students, but they change roommates three times a year because of the winter term in Gstaad. Some have an individual room in their final year, but they share a bathroom with one other student. The views from some of the dorms are stunning. On an average day at the main campus, students are woken up at 7 a.
During the "academic block," students must wear "comfortable and correct" clothing. This means shirts should be tucked into trousers, skirts and dresses should be "reasonably long," and tops must cover midriffs and shoulders. For formal school events, such as parties and conferences, students wear the school uniform. For boys, this consists of a navy-blue blazer, Rosey badge, white or blue shirt, school tie, gray trousers, and black shoes.
Girls wear a navy-blue blazer, Rosey brooch, white dress, school scarf, and sandals or town shoes. Classes take place from 8 a. After lunch, classes resume at 1. With teachers at Le Rosey, the average class has fewer than 10 students.
However, their lessons aren't all in standard classrooms. Here, junior students learn about plants and gardening. Between 4 and 6 p.
The Rosey Concert Hall seats people. When not hosting philharmonic orchestras, theatre plays, or concerts, the hall is used by the students to perform on stage in front of their peers and families during the school's events. Sports are also a major part of day-to-day life at Le Rosey — the school offers over 25 sports every year. There are football and rugby pitches, an athletics track, basketball courts, beach volleyball pits, tennis courts, and two fitness rooms.
Here are the private riding stables, which have 20 horses. The school's nautical centre on Lake Geneva has a sailboat, rowing boats, and four motorboats for waterskiing.
There's even a spa for students to unwind. Rowing is a pretty big deal. The school took the title of Swiss rowing champion in Hockey is still big on the winter campus. After students have worked up an appetite and participated in a short study hall , dinner — a formal affair — is served at 7.
All meals are prepared by in-house chefs, and the students rotate as waiters. The facilities at Le Rosey were impressive, but it was the ratio of teachers to pupils that impressed her most. The fees were reassuringly expensive, too. According to the Oswals, the mocking and taunting of their younger daughter — then aged 14 — led to panic attacks and insomnia. They eventually left at around midnight. One of the idiosyncrasies of Le Rosey is its management and ownership structure.
Since the Gudins became owners of the school in , there have been several married couples on the teaching and boarding staff. On graduation, Le Rosey alumni gain access to a private online portal with the contact details of almost every other living former pupil — a network that, ordinarily, money could not buy.
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