Academic & professional publishing in Switzerland_
As of 4 November 2026, 591 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Switzerland; 3 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 591
- Hiring now
- 3 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Professional & reference publishers · 70
- Top city
- Zürich · 76
- Parent market
- Media & content · 24,916
Academic & professional publishing in Switzerland, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Professional & reference publishers | 70 | 12% |
| Humanities social science journals | 63 | 11% |
| Trade & industry press | 59 | 10% |
| Clinical professional medical publishers | 57 | 10% |
| Book publishers | 53 | 9% |
| Other academic & professional publishing | 52 | 9% |
| Health information portals | 50 | 8% |
| General interest magazines | 47 | 8% |
| Business press | 36 | 6% |
| Science research communication media | 36 | 6% |
| Medical biomedical journals | 33 | 6% |
| Arts & culture media | 29 | 5% |
| Reference & manual sites | 23 | 4% |
| Other news & content portals | 19 | 3% |
| Education & career media | 18 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 257 · 1 |
| 2-10 employees | 274 · 1 |
| 11-50 employees | 51 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 6 · 1 |
| 201-500 employees | 2 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Zürich | 76 | 13% |
| Bern | 39 | 7% |
| Basel | 38 | 6% |
| Lausanne | 23 | 4% |
| St. Gallen | 15 | 3% |
| Luzern | 11 | 2% |
| Genève | 7 | 1% |
| Morges 2 | 7 | 1% |
| Neuchâtel | 7 | 1% |
| Zugerberg | 5 | 1% |
| Zürich 1 | 5 | 1% |
| Bern 65 | 4 | 1% |
The biggest academic & professional publishing companies in Switzerland
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The stack of academic & professional publishing in Switzerland
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Other segments of media & content in Switzerland
Media & content in Switzerland, the whole market →
News & content portals · 9,191 →
User content aggregator platforms · 4,307 →
Visual art galleries & prints · 3,610 →
Music & radio · 2,308 →
Travel blogs guides · 2,053 →
Books publishing & retail · 1,931 →
Writers & independent publishing · 1,894 →
Creator channels & influencers · 1,100 →
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591 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Switzerland; 3 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/switzerland/academic_and_professional_publishing)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Academic & professional publishing in Switzerland: questions
How many academic & professional publishing companies are there in Switzerland?
591 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Media & content → Academic & professional publishing → leaf niches such as professional & reference publishers, humanities social science journals, trade & industry press. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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