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An exclusive look inside the world's most expensive school, where tuition fees are more than £87,000 a year
Switzerland's Institut Le Rosey is the most expensive school in the world.
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Boasting two beautiful campuses in two locations — the spring/summer campus in the 14th-century Château du Rosey estate in Rolle, and, in the winter, chalets in the ski resort of Gstaad — it costs 108,900 Swiss francs (about £87,300) a year in tuition fees.
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Institut Le Rosey's famous alumni reportedly include King Albert II of Belgium, the Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and King Farouk of Egypt.
The school says 30% of its students join universities ranked in the top 25 in the world — including those in the Ivy League, MIT, and Oxbridge — after graduating.
So what's all the fuss about?
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"Evidently, we are Switzerland's oldest international boarding school. We have a certain weight that goes through the name because of families that have been here before," Felipe Laurent, an alumnus and Le Rosey spokesman, told Business Insider. Both Laurent and his older sister graduated from Le Rosey — he spent five years at the school, while she studied for three.
"I think that some families are looking for that," he added, "in that they might have studied here and so they want their children to continue that sort of legacy."
We spoke to Laurent to find out what really goes on behind its doors — and were offered an exclusive look inside. Scroll to see inside the most expensive school in the world.
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Note: The Instagram images below were published by accounts not managed by Le Rosey.
Despite its steep tuition fee, Le Rosey has four applicants for every available spot.
"We look for students that are brilliant academically, but that are also interesting children and, especially, that we think that we have potential," Laurent said. "Whether it's to progress even more in their academics, or potential in that we think they will be future leaders, or progress and potential in that we think they will be future sportsmen."
About 90 of the 150 teachers also live among the students.
"It's a small enough community that you are actually able to get to know the majority of" the students, Laurent said.
The spa has an indoor pool, a sauna, and a hammam, which students and teachers can use on Sundays.
For dinner, boys must wear a shirt, tie, and jacket. Girls wear a Rosey blouse and jacket.
Last year, two female students went to Ghana with their English teacher and visited a hospital where they met a large number of teenage girls who had suffered from obstetric fistula because of their births at a premature age or complicated circumstances.
When the students returned, they decided to swim the English Channel to raise awareness about obstetric fistula and raise money — over 100,000 Swiss francs (about £90,000) — to donate to the hospital where these girls can receive the reparation surgery they need.
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