SHMS Merit-Based Scholarship

Swiss Hotel Management School teaches hospitality and events management from two former grand hotels in the Swiss Alps — the Caux Palace above Montreux and a campus at Leysin — and is part of Swiss Education Group. Its programmes pair academic terms with paid Swiss internships, which is the model most Sri Lankan hospitality applicants are actually buying. SHMS lists four financial routes: a scholarship for Swiss citizens and permit holders, a partner scholarship tied to its network of partner schools around the world, a merit-based scholarship, and payment plans (with student loans available only to EU citizens). For a Sri Lankan applicant the merit-based scholarship is the relevant one, and possibly the partner scholarship if your school or college is in SHMS's partner network — worth asking about, because Sri Lankan hospitality diploma providers do sometimes hold such agreements. Be realistic about how this works. SHMS states plainly that each scholarship is assessed case by case, that a limited number are available every year on a first-come, first-served basis, that awards are calculated on tuition fees only, and that they cannot be stacked with any other fee reduction. Crucially, they are normally granted at the point of entry, so applying early in the admissions cycle matters more than it does at a public university. SHMS does not publish its fee schedule or scholarship values on its website — it distributes a downloadable fee and scholarship sheet — so ask your admissions contact for the current document in writing and convert the figures into rupees before committing. Switzerland is expensive: a Swiss hospitality school package including accommodation and meals runs into the tens of thousands of francs a year, and at 370 rupees to the franc the arithmetic is unforgiving.