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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Rosamund Dean

‘I learned about job prospects I hadn’t even considered’: the Swiss business school training leaders of the future

EHL’s Lausanne campus
EHL’s Lausanne campus prepares students for career opportunities all over the world Photograph: Gerrit Meier/PR

One crisp morning in Lausanne, Switzerland, a six-person team of final-year students present their recommendations to the International Olympic Committee. The brief is real (designing amenities and non-sporting experiences for the Youth Olympic Games), and some of the recommendations will be acted upon. For past-student Marina Campbell, this is the culmination of her experience at EHL Hospitality Business School, as part of her bachelor’s degree in international hospitality management.

“Having the opportunity to work with a world-renowned institution, being trusted to create, test and roll out a plan through months of research, design and review, and then seeing it put into place, and our work coming to life – it was surreal,” she says. And it’s a snapshot of what makes the EHL bachelor’s degree fundamentally different.

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