College Champittet Pully

1903: Collège Champittet, a private school in Lausanne is born. A group of Dominican Fathers from France established the prestigious private school as a Swiss Catholic school for boys. Their stewardship of the private school lasted for nearly 50 years.

1951: Leadership of this private school in Lausanne was passed on to capitular fathers of the Great Saint-Bernard, who maintained Collège Champittet’s growing reputation for teaching excellence and spirituality. In the same year, Français Langue Etrangère (FLE) programme for intensive French classes becomes available for non French speakers.

1960: Collège Champittet is a Swiss private school welcoming more than 600 students, including several boarding students. Increased demand for places encouraged the school to add another school building.

1984: Our Lausanne private school opens its doors to girls for the first time.

1998: The capitular fathers left our Lausanne private school in the care of a group of experienced educators, who remain focused on building on its commitment to excellence. In the same year the school opened its junior section.

1999: The French Baccalaureate is offered alongside the Swiss Maturité.

2004: A private school is inaugurated in Nyon, 20 kilometres from Geneva. This is followed by a creche in Lausanne, catering for children aged 18 to 48 months. A total of 800 students are now enrolled in the school as a whole.

2006: Collège Champittet becomes a bilingual private school, giving students a firm grounding in both French and English.

2009: The International Baccalaureate is added to the school curriculum. In the same year, the boarding house is being renovated. The school also becomes part of the Nord Anglia Education family of international schools.

2012: As a private school in Lausanne, Collège Champittet has embraced the learning potential of 21st Century technology, providing primary classes with iPads and secondary groups with Macbook Air laptops as part of a mobile classroom initiative in partnership with Apple. In September 2013, all students from 4th to 14th and their teachers have their own iPad provided by the school.

2013: The Lausanne private school celebrates its 110th anniversary, displaying original sculptures by Rodin, Renoir, Pompon and Dali in the gardens.

2016:  Alliance between Collège Champittet and Mont Olivet, the two private schools in Lausanne become one.

Collège Champittet, Lausanne private school belongs to several international groups and bears a number of accreditations.

Swiss Learning’s mission is to represent secondary private institutions that guarantee the excellence of Swiss private education. They assist families all over the world with making the choice among private boarding schools that fits best with their expectations.

 Swiss Federation of Private Schools is the institution that manages quality control of private schools across the country. It also serves as a consulting and advice body.

 International Baccalaureate® is the organisation which regulates every IB school around the world. It sets up the rules and regulations as well as the academic standards which schools must comply to.

 ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards. International Standards give state of the art specifications for education. Collège Champittet fulfills the requiremens of ISO 9001 Standard.

 Association Vaudoise des Ecoles Privées (AVDEP) : AVDEP is a not for profit network for private schools, offering consulting services and advice to its members.

 The Boarding Schools’ Association is the United Kingdom Association serving and representing member boarding schools, training staff and promoting boarding education in both independent and state boarding schools.

 Intersection.ch is an organisation in charge of accrediting independently the degree and quality of technology integration within the educational environment of private schools at primary and secondary level. The organisation is an official partner of the EPFL (CEDE – Center for Digital Education). The assessment of Collège Champittet for its implementation and smooth integration of new technologies in education resulted with the school’s accreditation.

The boarding house is divided into four residential floors. Boys and girls live on separate floors. Resident staff live in their own apartments on each of these floors as well, so support is always within easy reach. All students have a comfortable bed and desk space. Some rooms have breath-taking views of Lake Geneva. Rooms are already warm and homey when each student arrives, although they can decorate their space to make it even more comfortable and welcoming for them. 90% of our students share a room with one other student. Care is taken to house students with those from different nationalities to enhance their experience of gaining an international education. On each floor a shared living room provides a relaxing communal space for students to enjoy each other’s company, play games or watch movies.