On 1 January 2015 the new law named HFKG / LEHE / LPSU / HEdA (Hochschulförderungs- und -koordinationsgesetz / Loi fédérale sur l’encouragement des hautes écoles et la coordination dans le domaine suisse des hautes écoles / Legge federale sulla promozione e sul coordinamento del settore universitario svizzero / Federal Act on the Funding and Coordination of the Higher Education Sector) went into effect.

Unlike before, from now on all federal institutes of technology, cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education and other tertiary A level institutions are united under the same legal basis.