Editing Basel (section)

=== Upper secondary school ===
In 2010 65% of the youth finished their upper secondary education with a vocational training and education, 18% finished their upper secondary education with a [[Matura|Federal Matura]] at one of the five gymnasiums, 5% completed a ''Fachmaturität'' at the ''FMS'', 5% completed a ''Berufsmaturität'' synchronously to their vocational training, and 7% other kind of upper secondary maturity. 14.1% of all students at public gymnasiums were foreign nationals. The Maturity quota in 2010 was on a record high at 28.8% (32.8 female, 24.9% male).<ref name=BB/>
[[File:Basel 2012-09-16 Batch (5).JPG|thumb|upright|left|The Gymnasium Leonhard]]

Basel has five public [[Mittelschule|gymnasiums]] (''{{Interlanguage link|Gymnasium Bäumlihof|de}}'', ''{{Interlanguage link|Gymnasium Kirschgarten|de}}'', ''{{Interlanguage link|Gymnasium am Münsterplatz|de}}'', ''{{Interlanguage link|Gymnasium Leonhard|de}}'', ''{{Interlanguage link|Wirtschaftsgymnasium und Wirtschaftsmittelschule Basel|de}}''), each with its own profiles (different focus on major subjects, such as visual design, biology and chemistry, Italian, Spanish, or Latin languages, music, physics and applied mathematics, philosophy/education/psychology, and economics and law) that entitles students with a successful [[Matura]] graduation to attend universities. And one ''Fachmaturitätsschule'', the ''FMS'', with six different major subjects (health/natural sciences, education, social work, design/art, music/theatre/dance, and communication/media) that entitles students with a successful [[Fachmatura]] graduation to attend {{lang|de|[[Fachhochschule]]n}}. Four different ''höhere Fachschulen'' (higher vocational schools such as ''Bildungszentrum Gesundheit Basel-Stadt'' (health), ''Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel'' (trade), ''Berufsfachschule Basel'', ''Schule für Gestaltung Basel'' (design)) allows vocational students to improve their knowledge and know-how.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mb.bs.ch/schulen.html |title=Schulen |publisher=Kanton Basel-Stadt |language=de |access-date=24 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428062714/http://www.mb.bs.ch/schulen.html |archive-date=28 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>