Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Higher education Audience in Switzerland

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Higher education in Switzerland — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Higher education has an estimated audience of 1,615,579 people in Switzerland.

#164among Topic in Switzerland
#31in Business & Career

The average Higher education fan in Switzerland is 39.2 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Canton of Zürich.

The audience is concentrated in Canton of Zürich, Vaud, Canton of Bern.

Top brand affinities include Switzerland, Italian language, Central Europe, with strongest over-indexing on Switzerland (1.54× the country average).

Demographically, the Higher education audience skews balanced with an average age of 39.2, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Urban Lifestyle, Sustainability.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 18 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Higher education fan in Switzerland is balanced, around 39.2 years old, with strong Urban Lifestyle tendencies and a notable affinity for Switzerland.

Category: Business & Career · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Higher education profile in Switzerland.

Audience size
1.6M
in Switzerland
Gender
53.3%
46.7% male
Age
39.2
average years
Country rank
#252
Topic in Switzerland
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-16%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Higher education fans

53.3% are female, 46.7% are male, average age 39.2.

Fig. 02

Gender split

53.3%
Female
46.7%
Male
Demographic split for Higher education audience in Switzerland
MetricValue
Female53.3%
Male46.7%
Average age39.2
Estimated audience size1,615,579
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.2
average years
Age distribution of the Higher education audience in Switzerland
Age bracketShare%
16-1918%
20-2921%
30-3920%
40-4921%
50+19%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.4%

of the worldwide Higher education audience comes from Switzerland.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Higher education
CountryShare
United States19.1%
Brazil5.3%
India4.3%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Switzerland average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Higher education audience in Switzerland is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Higher education fans by region: top regions in Switzerland
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Canton of Zug~20K1.19×
02Schwyz~30K1.18×
03Basel-City~70K1.14×
04Neuchatel~40K1.13×
05Graubünden~40K1.08×
06Solothurn~40K1.06×
07Thurgau~40K1.04×
08Basel-Landschaft~40K1.02×
09Luzern~70K1.01×
10Fribourg~60K1.01×
11Valais~60K0.99×
12Canton of St. Gallen~80K0.98×
13Ticino~60K0.94×
14Canton of Geneva~100K0.91×
15Aargau~90K0.91×
16Vaud~100K0.86×
17Canton of Bern~100K0.81×
18Canton of Zürich~200K0.70×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Higher education audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Higher education audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01UniversityBusiness & Career2.65×
02HornbachShopping1.68×
03Western EuropeTravel & Leisure1.60×
04Central EuropeTravel & Leisure1.59×
05EducationBusiness & Career1.59×
06Italian languagePolitics & Society1.58×
07BernTravel & Leisure1.58×
08PoliticsPolitics & Society1.56×
09MagazinesLiterature1.55×
10SwitzerlandTravel & Leisure1.54×
11UBSBusiness & Career1.53×
12German languagePolitics & Society1.53×
13PsychologyBusiness & Career1.53×
14French languagePolitics & Society1.52×
15Comedy moviesMovies & TV1.52×
16VideoMovies & TV1.52×
17Pop musicMusic & Radio1.52×
18Le MatinNews1.52×
19ScienceBusiness & Career1.51×
20Electronic musicMusic & Radio1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Higher education audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Higher education audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Urban LifestyleOPEN1.43×
SustainabilityBALANCE1.37×
TravellingTHRILL1.07×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Higher education audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.64×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.71×
Design AffinityPREMIUM0.75×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Higher education have in Switzerland?

Higher education has an estimated audience of 1,615,579 people in Switzerland, concentrated in Canton of Zürich and Vaud.

02

What is the gender split and age of Higher education fans?

53.3% of Higher education fans are female, 46.7% are male, with an average age of 39.2 years.

03

Which brands do Higher education fans like most?

Higher education fans show strongest brand affinity for Switzerland (1.54×), Italian language (1.58×), and Central Europe (1.59×) over the country average.

04

Where do Higher education fans live in Switzerland?

Higher education fans in Switzerland are most concentrated in Canton of Zürich (reach ~200K), Vaud (reach ~100K), and Canton of Bern (reach ~100K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Higher education fans also like?

Beyond Higher education itself, the audience over-indexes on Italian language (1.58×), Central Europe (1.59×), Bern (1.58×), and Western Europe (1.6×) compared to the Switzerland average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Switzerland who actively search for Higher education. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Switzerland. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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