ETH Zurich
A Swiss Institution
The Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) opened its doors in 1855 and was, from the very beginning, one of the most renowned universities focused on technical and natural sciences in Europe. Today ETH has the following mission: to promote and maintain quality in education and research at the highest international level, promote networked and system-oriented thinking and acting, maintain professional and cultural diversity as well as academic freedom in education and research.
Uniquely Multi-Faceted
ETH Zurich is one of the leading international universities for technology and the natural sciences. It is well known for its excellent education, ground-breaking fundamental research and for implementing its results directly into practice. Founded in 1855, to researchers, it today offers an inspiring working environment, to students a comprehensive education.
ETH Zurich has more than 25,000 students from over 120 countries, including 4,561 doctoral students. About 560 professors currently teach and conduct research in engineering, architecture, mathematics, natural sciences, system-oriented sciences, and management and social sciences.
About one third of Switzerland‘s top management has studied at ETH.
Top Rankings
ETH Zurich regularly features in international rankings as one of the best universities in the world and the leading university in continental Europe.
In this year’s external pageQS World University Rankings, ETH Zurich is in 9th place. In the external pageTHE World University Rankings 2022/23 ETH took the 11th place international and 1st place within continental Europe.
When the external pageTHE World University Rankings is differentiated by the specialist area Business & Economics, Department MTEC is in 16th place worldwide and in first place in Switzerland and Continental Europe.
Bright Minds
Some famous people studied and taught at the ETH. The list includes Max Frisch, C.G. Jung, Ferdinand Piëch, Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog. The university is associated with 21 Nobel Prize recipients. These include Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physics 1901), Albert Einstein (Physics 1921) and Kurt Wüthrich (Chemistry 2002).