Institut Le Rosey

{{Short description|Boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox school | name = Institut Le Rosey | native_name = | latin_name = | image = Institut Le Rosey logo.png | image_size = 150 | motto = {{lang|fr|Une École pour la Vie}} | motto_translation = A School for Life | address = Château du Rosey | city = Rolle | county = Vaud | country = Switzerland | type = Private boarding school | established = {{start date and age|1880}}<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html | title = A Rich History | access-date = 2007-07-26 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070704055744/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html | archive-date = 4 July 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> | district = | authorizer = NEASC, IBO, CIS, & ECIS | superintendent = | director = Christophe Gudin | principal = | headmistress = Laëtitia Peynon-Mudry | headmaster = Kim Kovacevic | staff = ~200<ref name="Essential Character"/> | faculty = 90<ref name="Essential Character">{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/esprit.html | title = Essential Character | access-date = 2007-08-03 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070819123253/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/esprit.html | archive-date = 19 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> | gender = Co-educational | enrollment = ~400<ref name="ft.com"/> | ratio = 4:1 | authority = Federation of Swiss Private Schools | song = | mascot = | website = {{URL|www.rosey.ch}} | schoolmaster = | head teacher = | free_label = | free_text = | colors = | endowment = | alumni = Old Roseans }} '''Institut Le Rosey''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛ̃stity lə ʁozɛ}}), commonly referred to as '''Le Rosey''' or simply '''Rosey''', is a private boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland. It was founded in 1880 by Paul-Émile Carnal on the site of the 14th-century Château du Rosey in the town of Rolle in the canton of Vaud.

The school also owns a campus in the ski resort village of Gstaad in the canton of Bern, to where the student body, faculty and staff move during the months of January through March. In 2015, Christophe Gudin, son of the fourth director of Le Rosey, Philippe Gudin, became the fifth director. Kim Kovacevic is the headmaster.<ref>{{cite web|date= 12 April 2007|url= http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlInfos/whosWho.html|title= Who's Who|access-date= 2007-07-16|url-status= dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070703082747/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlInfos/whosWho.html|archive-date= 3 July 2007|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

Le Rosey is included in ''The Schools Index'' of the world's 150 best private schools and among top 10 international schools in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top Private Swiss Schools {{!}} The Schools Index 2023 by Carfax Education |url=https://www.schools-index.com/swiss-schools |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.schools-index.com}}</ref>

==Overview== The school offers a bilingual and bicultural education with the language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic programme.<ref name="Bilingualism and Biculturalism">{{cite web |year=2007 |url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bilinguisme.html |title=Bilingualism and Biculturalism |access-date=2007-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928002742/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bilinguisme.html |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> Students may sit either the International Baccalaureate,<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.ibo.org/school/001212/ | title = IB: Institut Le Rosey | access-date = 2007-07-16 }}</ref> or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate. To sustain an international atmosphere at Le Rosey, there exists a quota where no more than 10% of the students may come from a single country. As of 2006, the student body, ages 8 through 18, is composed of pupils from 52 countries, with 60% of the students being European.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 May 2006 |url=http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1 |title=European Council of International Schools: Le Rosey |access-date=2007-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090401/http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1 |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> In 2007, the school had 380 students, equally divided between male and female, of which the majority are between the ages of 14 and 18.<ref>{{cite web |year = 2007 |url = http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?AssetID=16556&CategoryID=91 |title = Geschlossener Planet |access-date = 2007-07-16 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083001/http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?AssetID=16556&CategoryID=91 |archive-date = 29 September 2007 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all }}</ref> The student-teacher ratio is 3.5:1<ref>{{Cite web |title=School Approach & Culture {{!}} Le Rosey |url=https://www.rosey.ch/le-rosey/essential-points-distinctive-features/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Institut Le Rosey |language=en-US}}</ref> with the average class size being fewer than 20 students, and the average teacher's length of stay at Le Rosey is over ten years.<ref name="A School unlike any other">{{cite web |url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/originalites.html |title=A School unlike any other |access-date=2007-07-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704055935/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/originalites.html |archive-date=4 July 2007 }}</ref>

Students at Le Rosey are nicknamed "{{lang|fr|Roséens|italics=no}}" (in French) or "Roseans" (in English), and former students are labeled "{{lang|fr|Les Anciens Roséens|italics=no}}".<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlEcole/esprit.html | title = The Rosey Spirit | access-date = 2007-07-17 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070630223410/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlEcole/esprit.html | archive-date = 30 June 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="iht.com" /> The school's campus has {{convert|28|ha|acre|abbr=off}} of landscaped grounds. The school's sailing centre, the "{{lang|fr|Fleur d'Eau|italics=no}}", is situated along 100 metres of shoreline on Lake Geneva. Le Rosey is reportedly the only boarding school in the world to change campuses seasonally.{{Citation needed|date=May 2026}} In spring and autumn, classes are held at the Château du Rosey campus in the village of Rolle in the canton of Vaud, located between Geneva and Lausanne in southwestern Switzerland. For the winter months of January through March, the entire student body moves to a group of chalets in the ski resort town of Gstaad in the canton of Bern.

== History == [[File:ChateauLeRosey.jpg|thumb|250px|A 1669 watercolor painting of the Château du Rosey near Rolle, Switzerland, by Albrecht Kauw. This is the only preserved image that depicts the original Chateau.]] thumb|1964, with Rolle in the background alt=Lucien Brunel Rosey director from 1931 to 1949|thumb|Lucien Brunel, Rosey director from 1931 to 1949 alt=Henri Carnal and Lucien Brunel at Rosey near Rolle in 1935|thumb|Henri Carnal and Lucien Brunel at Rosey near Rolle in 1935 Château du Rosey, a feudal chateau located on Le Rosey's main campus at Rolle, dates to the Middle Ages and houses the school's central reception area.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 1997|url= http://www.swisscastles.ch/Vaud/chateau/bursinsrosay.html|title= Le château du Rosey|access-date = 2007-07-14}}</ref> In 1880, the site of Le Rosey's campus was chosen by the school's founder, Paul-Emile Carnal, "a lover of nature, history and the countryside". The school's campus at Rolle is situated adjacent to Lake Geneva. In 1911, the founder passed the ownership of Le Rosey to his son, Henri-Paul Carnal. In 1917, the school began to go to Gstaad in the German-speaking canton of Bern for the winter months to escape the dense fog that settles in on Lake Geneva.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html| title=A Rich History| access-date =2007-07-14| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704055744/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html| archive-date =4 July 2007| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 1931, Lucien Brunel, a former member of the International Red Cross and former director of the Institut Haccius at the Château de Lancy (Geneva), also known as the Grand-Lancy Castle, took on by demand of Henri Carnal, the direction of Rosey until 1949.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} In 1947, the third generation of directors, Louis Johannot and Helen Schaub, assumed ownership of Le Rosey. Under the same ownership, Le Rosey admitted girls for the first time in 1967 and opened a separate girls' campus. In 1980, the current owners, Philippe and Anne Gudin de la Sablonnière, became the fourth generation of directors at Le Rosey. Louis Johannot, in an interview with ''Life Magazine'' in 1965, made a comment that received considerable attention: "The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children."<ref>{{cite web | date = 7 May 1965 | url = http://www.bartleby.com/63/64/2564.html | title = Simpson's Contemporary Quotations | access-date = 2007-07-18 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071107012020/http://www.bartleby.com/63/64/2564.html | archive-date = 7 November 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

Prior to the introduction of the 10% quota, wherein no more than 10% of the student body may come from one country, different nationalities made up the majority of students at Le Rosey.<ref name="members.forbes.com">{{cite news | date = 5 July 1999 | url = http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html | title = Where you learn to be a billionaire | access-date = 2007-07-14 | work = Forbes | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070711163554/http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html | archive-date = 11 July 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref> In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of students were American, Italian, or Greek; in the 1970s the majority was Arab or Iranian; in the 1980s the majority was Japanese or Korean; and in the 1990s the majority was Russian.<ref name="members.forbes.com"/> During the 1990s, the children of Russian oligarchs, who made up a third of the student body,<ref>{{cite news |date=23 October 1995 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n40_v11/ai_17625033 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122212442/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n40_v11/ai_17625033 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 January 2009 |title=The bubonic plague of international crime |access-date=2007-08-08 |work=Insight on the News |first=Arnaud |last=de Borchgrave }}</ref> gained notoriety for "terrorizing" other students, something that is disputed, resulting in the withdrawal of at least one non-Russian student.<ref name="members.forbes.com"/><ref>{{cite news |date=17 February 2007 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200702/ai_n18621914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225043226/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200702/ai_n18621914 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 December 2008 |title=Russian Invasion |access-date=2007-08-08 |work=The Spectator }}</ref>

In 2014, Le Rosey inaugurated the Paul & Henri Carnal Hall, an arts and learning centre for Le Rosey and the La Côte region.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/carnalHallJuin07.pdf | title = Carnal Hall at Le Rosey | access-date = 2007-07-17 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808015033/http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/carnalHallJuin07.pdf | archive-date = 8 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Le Rosey plans massive art center">{{cite web | date = 11 October 2007 | url = http://www.24heures.ch/layout/set/print/(contenu)/143998 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120207214907/http://www.24heures.ch/layout/set/print/(contenu)/143998/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 February 2012 | title = Le Rosey plans massive art center }}</ref> In 2019, Le Rosey became involved in a legal case with billionaire parents Radhika and Pankaj Oswal.<ref name="Worlds most expensive school criticised in academic report for turning a blind eye to bullying">{{cite press release|date=23 July 2020|title=Worlds most expensive school criticised in academic report for turning a blind eye to bullying|url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/07/23/2066388/0/en/World-s-most-expensive-school-criticised-in-academic-report-for-turning-a-blind-eye-to-bullying.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scandal-at-the-school-for-the-super-rich-r60z5x0vk|author1=Smith, Julia Llewellyn|access-date=2021-07-24|date=2020-05-21|title=Scandal at the school for the super-rich}}{{subscription required|s}}</ref><ref name="newscom">{{Cite web|date=2020-05-04|title=Institut Le Rosey: Billionaires sue world's most expensive school over bullying claims|url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/billionaire-parents-sue-worlds-most-expensive-school-over-bullying-claims/news-story/6d59cc276211c28598967d0202abea5c|access-date=2021-07-24|website=NewsComAu|language=en}}</ref> The parents allege that "the standards of the school have dropped in recent years, and it is now fast becoming just a playground for rich students to do as they please," and that it failed to protect their daughter from being "mocked and taunted" by schoolmates about her ethnicity.<ref name="Institut Le Rosey: The hidden truth behind the most expensive school in the world">{{cite web|date= 7 May 2020|url= https://indiaeducationdiary.in/institut-le-rosey-the-hidden-truth-behind-the-most-expensive-school-in-the-world/|title= Institut Le Rosey: The hidden truth behind the most expensive school in the world}}</ref>

==Accreditation== ===Swiss=== Le Rosey's (upper) secondary education (Middle and High School) is not approved as a Gymnasium by the bureau for gymnasial and vocational education MBA ({{lang|de|Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt MBA}}), administration for education ({{lang|de|Erziehungsdirektion}}), canton of Bern,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bkd.be.ch/de/start/themen/bildung-im-kanton-bern/mittelschulen/gymnasium/die-gymnasien-im-kanton-bern.html |title=Gymnasien im Kanton Bern |publisher=Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Bern |location=Bern, Switzerland |language=de |type=official site |access-date=2022-02-21}}</ref> nor by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sbfi.admin.ch/sbfi/de/home/bildung/maturitaet.html |title=Maturität - Maturité - Maturità: Liste der anerkannten Maturitätsschulen |format=XLS |publisher=Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, SERI |location=Bern, Switzerland |date=6 September 2021 |language=de, fr, it |type=official site |access-date=2022-02-21}}</ref>

===International=== Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the International Baccalaureate, the Ministry of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools. Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institut Le Rosey |url=https://edelweiss-panorama.ch/institut-le-rosey/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Edelweiss Panorama International |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Academic curriculum == Institut Le Rosey's academic curriculum is designed to "provide education of breadth, depth and quality for an international student body."<ref>{{cite web |year = 2007 |url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/esprit.html# |title = Fundamental Aims |access-date = 2007-08-02 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070819124001/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/esprit.html |archive-date = 19 August 2007 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> Le Rosey offers a rigorous bilingual and bicultural education with the principal language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic programme.<ref name="Bilingualism and Biculturalism" /> Beginning in Class 9 (US 3rd grade) and ending in Class 7 (US 5th grade), Junior students at Le Rosey follow the Primary Bilingual Programme.<ref name="Primary Bilingual Program">{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeJunior.html | title = Primary Bilingual Program | access-date = 2007-08-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822203934/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeJunior.html | archive-date = 22 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The Programme follows the French national curriculum for classes taught in French and the British national curriculum for classes taught in English, which are both complemented by the International Primary Curriculum to create an international education.<ref name="Primary Bilingual Program" /><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.internationalprimarycurriculum.com/ | title = International Primary Curriculum | access-date = 2007-08-02 | archive-date = 4 February 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120204190140/http://www.internationalprimarycurriculum.com/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Le Rosey students in Classes 6–2 (US 6th–10th grade) choose their principal language and continue their studies in French or English.<ref name="Secondary Bilingual Programme">{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeBilingue.html | title = Secondary Bilingual Programme | access-date = 2007-08-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822203901/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeBilingue.html | archive-date = 22 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> If possible, students may study their mother tongue and a third or even a fourth language in addition to their principal language of instruction. Over 20 different languages have been taught at Le Rosey in the past five years.<ref name="Bilingualism and Biculturalism" /> During the Secondary Bilingual Programme, English and French classes are obligatory, and upon entering Class 3 (US 9th grade), students begin the two-year "Pre-Bac" Programme to prepare the students for either the internationally recognised International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate.<ref name="Secondary Bilingual Programme" /> At Le Rosey, the IB Diploma Programme and the French Baccalaureate cover the last two years of schooling (Class 1 and Class t).<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bacInter.html | title = International Baccalaureate | access-date = 2007-08-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070824035104/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bacInter.html | archive-date = 24 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

== Facilities ==

=== Rolle campus === Le Rosey's main campus, near Rolle, is on {{convert|28|ha}} adjacent to Lake Geneva. It is divided into two campuses, one for boys situated on the main campus and one for girls called La Combe. The boarding houses contain a total of 179 bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, and all together the academic buildings contain: 53 classrooms, eight science laboratories, 14 specially-equipped rooms, 48 apartments for Le Rosey teachers, two infirmaries, a library/media centre with about 20,000 to 30,000 literary and reference works, a theatre, three dining rooms and two canteens, an auditorium, two gyms, and an ecumenical chapel. Sports and arts facilities at Le Rosey include: ten clay tennis courts, a {{cvt|25|m|adj=on}} indoor pool and wellness centre, a 25-metre outdoor pool, three football pitches, a synthetic rugby pitch, a wood chip running track, a shooting and archery range, an open-air theatre, and a computer-regulated greenhouse. Off-campus Le Rosey owns a private equestrian centre housing 30 horses, an indoor riding school, a dressage area, and a clubhouse. Also off-campus is the Le Rosey sailing centre equipped with ten dinghies, three motorboats, three yawls and a {{convert|38|ft|m|adj=on}} yacht.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/infrastructures.html | title = Facilities | access-date = 2007-07-16 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070717062228/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/infrastructures.html | archive-date = 17 July 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

=== Gstaad campus === thumb|270px|An overlook of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland, the location of Le Rosey's winter campus The school's winter campus, at the ski resort of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland, is composed of several traditional chalets within the town. The girls' campus, at Schönried, is situated a 10-minute train ride away from Gstaad and is composed of five chalets used solely for boarding and dining. The students utilise local facilities, including: swimming pool, fitness centre, tennis courts, ice hockey rink, a bowling alley, curling, {{convert|250|km|mi|-1}} of alpine ski slopes and {{cvt|120|km|mi|round=5}} of cross-country ski tracks, {{convert|65|km|mi|round=5|abbr=on}} of snowshoeing trails, climbing walls, and via ferratas.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/campusGstaad.html | title = The Gstaad Winter Campus | access-date = 2007-07-16 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070613160551/http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/campusGstaad.html | archive-date = 13 June 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

== Tuition fees == {{As of|2011/12}}, the annual boarding and academic fees are CHF 125,000 (approximately US$133,000), without extra fees such as those for sports, etc.<ref>Application Form 2013-14 [Brochure]. (2013-14). Rolle, Switzerland: Le Rosey.</ref> The Rosey Foundation, which oversees the financing of Le Rosey's Carnal Hall, makes scholarships possible to "particularly deserving" students, and the four-member Rosey Scholarship Committee allots them to the approved students.<ref>{{cite web |year = 2013 |url = http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm |title = passé, son présent, son avenir |access-date = 2007-08-02 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822050355/http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm |archive-date = 22 August 2007 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> Institut Le Rosey does not directly offer scholarships to any person; scholarships are only made available through the Rosey Foundation.<ref name="ft.com">{{cite web |date = 21 September 2007 |url = https://www.ft.com/content/7401162c-6690-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac |archive-url = https://archive.today/20150507065313/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/7401162c-6690-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=eeb79658-6054-11dc-8ec0-0000779fd2ac.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 7 May 2015 |title = No ifs, no buts: keep bodyguards off campus |access-date = 2007-08-02 }}</ref>

== Associations == L'Association Internationale des Anciens Roséens (AIAR), the International Association of Former Roseans, is Le Rosey's alumni association, the members of which have been major contributors to 20th-century world history.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.swiss-schools.ch/index.php?SL_Key=20&subpage=E | title = The Swiss Federation of Private Schools | access-date = 2007-07-17 }}</ref><ref name="cois.org">{{cite web | date = 11 July 2007 | url = http://www.cois.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1 | title = Council of International Schools: Le Rosey | access-date = 2007-07-17 }}</ref> The AIAR, a prestigious network of former students, has alumni representatives in most countries and in many major cities across the world. Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association", was created on 21 July 1922 by a small group of alumni in the presence of the son of the school's founder, Henri Carnal. In 1926, the "Belgian Old Rosey Association" was founded; like the Old Rosey Association, it was declining due to slow international communication between alumni.<ref>{{cite web |year = 2007 |url = http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm |title = Son passé, son présent, son avenir |access-date = 2007-07-17 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822050355/http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm |archive-date = 22 August 2007 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> The current alumni association, the AIAR, was established in 1964. The school's list of alumni is not published and access to AIAR events and meetings is exclusive to former students.<ref name="cois.org"/>

Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the International Baccalaureate, the Ministry of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 May 2006 |url=http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1 |title=European Council of International Schools: Le Rosey |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090401/http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1 |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.

== Notable alumni == {{Main|List of alumni of Institut Le Rosey}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2018|section}} Institut Le Rosey has over 5,000 former students.<ref name="members.forbes.com"/> It has educated generations of dynastic families, including members of the Hohenzollern, Cavendish, Rothschild, Koskull, Metternich, Borghese, Hohenlohe, Molson, Rockefeller, Niarchos, Safra, Du Pont and Radziwiłł families.<ref>{{cite web |date=28 October 2000 |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/8502/part_3/the-lesson-we-can-learn.thtml |title=The Lesson We Can Learn |access-date=2007-07-26 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |year=1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtcrAAAAMAAJ&q=Le+Rosey |title=The Molson Saga |isbn = 9780385178631|accessdate=2007-07-30 |last1 = Woods|first1 = Shirley E.| publisher=Doubleday Canada }}</ref>

The school has educated royalty and high society from around the world, such as Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt, the House of Glücksburg of Greece and the House of Savoy of Italy.<ref name="members.forbes.com"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://spearswms.com/education/le-rosey-school-spears/ | title=Le Rosey school: Billionaire parents go to war with Swiss boarding school | date=23 May 2022 }}</ref>

Le Rosey has educated several monarchs, including the Aga Khan IV, King Albert II of Belgium, King Baudouin I of Belgium, King Fuad II of Egypt, King Ntare V of Burundi, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Persia and Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Other notable alumni include Princess ''Ashi'' Euphelma Choden Wangchuck and Prince ''Dasho'' Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan, Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Amyn Aga Khan, Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, her sisters Pia Getty and Alexandra von Fürstenberg,<ref name="iht.com">{{cite web |date=17 February 1993 |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php |title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit |access-date=2007-07-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070705095952/http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php  |archive-date = 2007-07-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/luxroyalty/hgdguillaume.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027141603/http://www.geocities.com/luxroyalty/hgdguillaume.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-10-27|title=hgdguillaume|date=2009-10-27|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref>{{failed verification |date=January 2026 |reason=The iht.com source mentions no specific alumni, and the geocities source make no mention of this university, Le Rosey (plus it looks unreliable)}} John Lennon's son Sean Lennon, the Swiss entrepreneur Eugenio Losa, rewilding advocate Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany,<ref>{{cite news |title=Teacher inspired me... now I'm making a novel of his movie |url=https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/11410576.teacher-inspired-me-now-im-making-a-novel-of-his-movie/ |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=Colchester Gazette |date=14 August 2014 |language=en}}</ref> heiress Tatiana Santo Domingo, CIA director Richard Helms, The Strokes' Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr. and actress Tracee Ellis Ross.

== In fiction and popular culture == In fiction, the school is most commonly mentioned in novels relating to the rich and famous, and usually takes the role of being the choice of education for different characters.<ref>{{cite book | year = 1984 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0tiVwuuiMBQC&q=Le+Rosey | title = In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780553256093 | last1 = Krantz | first1 = Judith | publisher=Bantam Books }}</ref> Le Rosey has been mentioned in Judith Krantz's novels ''Princess Daisy'' (1980) and ''Till We Meet Again'' (1988),<ref>{{cite book | year = 1984 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0tiVwuuiMBQC&q=Le+Rosey | title = Princess Daisy | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780553256093 | last1 = Krantz | first1 = Judith | publisher=Bantam Books }}</ref> as well as in several romance novels by Karen Robards.<ref>{{cite book | year = 2001 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EkMi9buPwSoC&q=Le+Rosey&pg=PA139 | title = Paradise County | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 0743424557 | last1 = Robards | first1 = Karen | publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> The school is also mentioned in ''Master of the Game'' (1982) by Sidney Sheldon, ''Answered Prayers'' (1986) by Truman Capote,<ref>{{cite book | year = 2001 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EkMi9buPwSoC&q=Le+Rosey&pg=PA139 | title = Answered Prayers | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 0743424557 | last1 = Robards | first1 = Karen | publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> ''Any Woman's Blues'' (1990) by Erica Jong,<ref>{{cite book | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OhflWjf4PMwC&q=Le+Rosey | title = Any Woman's Blues | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780061099168 | last1 = Jong | first1 = Erica | publisher=Harpercollins }}</ref> ''For Love Alone'' (1992) by Ivana Trump,<ref>{{cite book | year = 1992 | url = https://archive.org/details/forlovealone00trum | url-access = registration | quote = Le Rosey. | title = For Love Alone | publisher = Pocket Books | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780671743680 | last1 = Trump | first1 = Ivana }}</ref> and ''What Became of Her'' (2002) by Marijane Meaker.<ref>{{cite book | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?q=Le+Rosey&lr=&num=100&sa=N&start=300 | title = What Became of Her | access-date = 2007-08-20 }}</ref> Similarly, Le Rosey is mentioned in Bret Easton Ellis' novel ''American Psycho'' (1991), as the alma mater of Evelyn Williams, who is the protagonist's fiancée. In the movie ''Monte Carlo'', the character Cordelia Winthrop-Scott, played by Selena Gomez, attended Le Rosey. In a 2002 episode of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', affluent character Martha Strick, played by Veanne Cox, says she attended Le Rosey.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://imdb.com/name/nm0185274/ | title = Veanne Cox | website = IMDb | access-date = 2007-08-20 }}</ref> Two prominent characters in Emily in Paris, Mindy and Nicolas, knew each from their time at Le Rosey.

In non-fiction, alumni Michael Korda and James Laughlin have written about their experiences and memories at Le Rosey.<ref>{{cite book | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rvw92SaEpyQC&q=Le+Rosey&pg=PA234 | title = Charmed Lives: A Family Romance | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780061847639 | last1 = Korda | first1 = Michael | publisher=Harper Collins }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | year = 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YIkU3xonqWAC&q=Le+Rosey&pg=PA291 | title = Byways: A Memoir | access-date = 2007-08-20 | isbn = 9780811215985 | last1 = Laughlin | first1 = James | publisher=New Directions }}</ref> Columnist Taki Theodoracopulos has written extensively on the school and its alumni,<ref>{{cite book | year = 1984 | url = https://archive.org/details/princesplayboysh00theo | url-access = registration | quote = Le Rosey. | title = Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts | publisher = Karz-Cohl Pub. |access-date=2014-02-15 | isbn = 9780943828619 | author1 = Taki Theodoracopulos }}</ref> and was in the middle of a mild controversy when in 1998 he jokingly wrote in ''The Spectator'' that Osama bin Laden had attended Le Rosey.<ref name="gstaadlife.ch">{{cite web | date = 3 March 2004 | url = http://www.gstaadlife.ch/archive/documents/gl04_05.pdf | title = Have you seen Harry Bin Laden lately? | access-date = 2010-01-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=1996 |url=http://www.terra.com.br/istoedinheiro/266/estilo/266_colegios_elite.htm |title=Colegios da Elite |access-date=2007-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630075003/http://www.terra.com.br/istoedinheiro/266/estilo/266_colegios_elite.htm |archive-date=30 June 2007 }}</ref> The story resulted in an outcry from American readers, inquiries from several magazines, and the school publicly and "vehemently" denying that bin Laden had attended Le Rosey.<ref name="gstaadlife.ch"/> In 1999, American journalist Paul Klebnikov wrote an exposé on Le Rosey in ''Forbes'' magazine detailing the problems the school was experiencing with its majority Russian student body.<ref>{{cite news|date= 7 May 1999|url= http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a_2.html|title= Where you learn to be a billionaire|access-date= 2007-08-20|work= Forbes|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110611111207/http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a_2.html|archive-date= 11 June 2011|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref> Richard René Silvin released his book ''I survived Swiss Boarding Schools'' in 2006 and a second edition in 2018, chronicling his time at Le Rosey in the 50s and 60s.

== Plans to leave Gstaad == In January 2008, Swiss economics magazine ''Bilanz'', a subsidiary of Edipresse, published an interview with Le Rosey Director-General Philippe Gudin that revealed the school is seeking to sell its Gstaad winter campus and build a new campus in another location.<ref name="Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad">{{cite web|date=30 January 2008|title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad|url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf|access-date=2008-02-02}}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Gudin is in negotiations with the local authorities in Schönried, a suburb of Gstaad located a few minutes away, to construct a new main campus on an undeveloped piece of land, and this has run into difficulties due to zoning restrictions.<ref name="Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad" /> Reasons for moving to a new campus, according to the Director-General, include the fact that the school's personnel, who typically live on campus, are at maximum capacity, and that the student body can no longer increase in size due to the lack of space.<ref name="Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad" /> Gudin stated that for the moment the new winter campus location will be in Switzerland, and he has not ruled out the French Alps.<ref name="Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad" /> The {{convert|100|ha|acre|abbr=off}} of prime real estate that the school occupies on Ried Hill in the centre of Gstaad is estimated to be worth several hundreds of millions of USD, considering the ''International Herald Tribune'' reports that the price per square meter in Gstaad starts at 20,000 CHF (19,000 US$) and can rise to 45,000 CHF (43,000 US$). Gudin asserts that the high value of the Gstaad winter campus has nothing to do with its planned sale.<ref name="Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad" />

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