Much of what makes TASIS distinctive results from the entrepreneurial style of our founder, M. Crist Fleming, whose ability to see and seize opportunities and to respond to needs with alacrity is legendary. Thanks to her, TASIS enjoys a culture that encourages and rewards initiative and creativity. In addition to individual initiative and creativity, this culture demands flexibility, patience, a positive attitude, and perseverance.

TASIS gave me the wings to fly high and reach my goals.

-2014 Graduate

From its founding in 1956 to her passing in 2009, Mrs. Fleming cited TASIS as the fulfillment of her dreams and encouraged students to follow their own—to dream big enough and bold enough to lead a life of consequence and make the world “a better place in small and large ways for all the humans who inhabit it.” Her spirit is very much alive at TASIS today.

Discover the Beauty of Switzerland

Perched on a hillside in sunny southern Switzerland with commanding views of snow-capped mountains, palm trees, and Lake Lugano, our global village comprises 25 buildings dating from the 17th-century Villa De Nobili to the Campo Science Center, completed in 2014.

“We are blessed indeed, each and every one of us, to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world,” remarked Mrs. Fleming, who believed strongly that beauty matters. Her influence has informed all aspects of life at TASIS—from graceful settings and inspired architecture to paintings on walls, candles and flowers on tables, fine dress and a comely appearance, a well-crafted essay, a curving corner kick in soccer, a canvas on display at the Arts Festival, or a solo at the Christmas concert.

Excel in the Classroom

With an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) and more than 15 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, our academic program is designed to challenge all students.

TASIS students have consistently outperformed their peers in their pursuit of the IB Diploma, which opens doors to outstanding colleges and universities around the world. Diploma candidates have achieved pass rates of 97 percent or higher each of the past three years, scored 40 points or higher more than 10 percent of the time over the same period, and earned IB Bilingual Diplomas at a rate of more than 60 percent in six of the past seven years.

The IB and AP programs prepare students very well for college. The combination of both makes me feel secure about my preparation and knowledge, which will help me in my future years. Being at TASIS has also given me a wide range of universities from which to choose that I would have never considered had I gone somewhere else.

-2015 graduate

Our dedicated University and College Counseling Office helps all students develop a detailed academic plan that aligns with their post-secondary goals. Over the past five years, our counselors have helped students gain acceptance to nearly 400 universities in 18 nations, including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Duke, California–Berkeley, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, and Middlebury.

Create your Masterpiece

Because becoming an artist is about discovering and nurturing talent, we provide a rich and varied Fine Arts curriculum that encourages students to find their own voice no matter what the discipline. Students can choose from more than 20 classes in Visual Arts, Music, and Drama, ranging from introductory courses in Photography to IB and AP offerings in Theatre, Architecture, and Drawing & Painting.

We also provide ample opportunities for extracurricular artistic exhibitions, musical performances, and dramatic productions, and our Spring Arts Festival is an annual celebration of student artwork along with displays and performances by well-known artists and musicians outside the TASIS community. Bi-annual Academic Travel trips allow aspiring artists to hone their crafts in Europe’s most beautiful and culturally rich cities.

For me, a love of literature, the arts, and the performing arts is the heart and soul of education, for it grows throughout our entire lifetime, keeping alive the excitement of learning, creating constant enrichment in our leisure hours and throughout our long golden years.

- M. Crist Fleming

Learn from the best

TASIS is known for attracting educators who are adventurous, driven, and enthusiastic, and more than 70 percent of our faculty hold advanced degrees. We are proud to employ gifted, passionate educators who encourage intellectual curiosity and demand the most from their students.

Faculty excellence is the core of the TASIS experience, and the teaching does not stop when the school day ends. Our teachers are also dorm parents, coaches, advisors, and trip leaders, and they come to know their students in meaningful ways both in and out of the classroom. What stands out most to students is the way their teachers care about them. As one recent graduate explained, “The relationships between students and faculty are unlike those at any other school, and this really made TASIS feel like a home with adults I knew I could trust and talk to about anything.”

The teachers I had were truly committed to their jobs and put a great amount of effort into engaging all students in class and making sure every single one of us knew the material.

2015 graduate