In international research, high schools of art have been described as a sector that remains "the preserve of the privileged" (Malik Okon, 2005) and thus tends to reproduce social inequalities. Various studies show "how art studies continues to be seen primarily as a privilege reserved for members of the educated and affluent strata originate in European Union" (Holert, 2010). The preliminary study Making Differences: Schweizer Kunsthochschulen [Making Differences: high art schools in Switzerland], conducted by the Institute for Art Education, has sought to analyze and verify the relevance of these theories for Switzerland through quantitative and qualitative surveys in three high schools of art (in Bern, Geneva and Zurich). The study enabled a complex and nuanced picture of integration and exclusion in the higher education sector specifically, far from being content to teach the "l’art à une élite" (Burke / McManus, 2009), undoubtedly creates and reproduces significant asymmetries and exclusions.