Switzerland · Versoix, Geneva · Founded 1960
Collège du Léman
The largest school on this list, with five different school-leaving certificates and a boarding house for two hundred.
The character
Collège du Léman is a full international school with a boarding wing rather than a boarding school with day pupils: big, bilingual and offering the IB, the Swiss Matura, the French Bac and the US diploma. Families in Geneva's diplomatic and banking world use it as a day school; boarders get the city, the lake and a very wide peer group.
Good for
Families in Geneva, children who want choice of curriculum, day pupils
Less suited to
Families who want a small close community, mountain life
Getting in
Rolling admissions, reports and assessment; boarding places for ages 12 to 18.
What it costs in total
At about CHF 100,000 a year for boarding, the 5 years from 13 to 18 add up to roughly €588,000 in today’s money including typical extras, before fee increases, tutoring and flights. The Education Cost Calculator adds inflation, extras and a second child.
Fees are rounded 2025/26 figures from the school’s own schedule and change every year. The school’s current fee sheet prevails. The picture is an impression of the setting, not a photograph of the campus.
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