Application process

ETH Zurich offers a varied range of Bachelor’s degree programmes in the following areas:

- Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Engineering Sciences
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- System-oriented Natural Sciences

For detailed information on the Bachelor’s degree programmes offered see the range of Bachelor’s degree programmes.

The main teaching language in all ETH Zurich Bachelor’s degree programmes is German.
It is your responsibility to acquire the language skills required for your studies. ETH offers no language courses for applicants.

For admission to Bachelor’s degree studies our German language requirements must be met by the application deadline (31 March). You may be required to submit a German language certificate.

Applications with invalid, insufficient or missing language certificates will be rejected after 31 March on formal grounds.

See Language requirements

Before you apply, please check whether you need a visa to study in Switzerland and whether you satisfy the prerequisites for a student visa.

• Do I need a visa?
• Entering Switzerland with a visa

You may apply for one Bachelor’s degree programme only.

Apply for your desired Bachelor’s degree programme via eApply. Please complete the online application form fully and truthfully.

You will be guided through the online application step by step. Please note that your entries must be substantiated by uploading the required documents (curriculum vitae, academic record etc.). Please note that the maximum size of the documents should be 5 MB. At the end of the application process you will be automatically directed to the payments page to pay your application fee by credit card. You will receive a confirmation of receipt by email as soon as you have submitted your online application.

If you require help in filling out the eApply application form, please read the eApply help page before contacting us. If technical problems arise, please complete and submit a Feedback / Support form.

To the online application form in eApply
 

After receiving your application we will check and consider it. Please understand that this process can take up to eight weeks.

If any of the documents required to process your application are missing, we will contact you. In this case you will receive an email instructing you to log in to eApply and to upload the missing documents by a certain deadline. It may happen that this email lands in your spam folder; we ask you to check it as well.

You must upload any academic records and documents which are not yet available at the time of application to eApply according to specifications as soon as you receive them, and certainly by the published deadlines.
 

Applicants who fulfil the requirements for admission without an entrance examination will receive an information sheet for new Bachelor’s degree students with their admission decision.

The documents required to register for studies and for matriculation must be sent by post and/or uploaded in eApply. The upper secondary school-leaving certificate, the verification of a university place (if required), the German language certificate (if required) and any translations must be submitted in the original. Copies / certified copies are not accepted.
In eApply you will be told which documents must be submitted by post, and which documents must be uploaded in eApply. All original documents will be returned to you during the first Autumn Semester.

After we have received all of your registration documents we will send you an email asking you to check and confirm your personal details in eApply. Once you have done this, you may access your confirmation of registration in eApply.

All Swiss universities require the upper secondary school-leaving certificate in the original in order to issue a Swiss matriculation number (small yellow sticker with your individual student number, which will be attached to the back of the school-leaving certificate).

Applicants who are required to sit the ETH entrance examination will receive, with their admission decision, an information sheet on the entrance examination and information on the documents they must upload in eApply in order to register for the entrance examination.

If you would like to sit the entrance examination you can register for it in eApply between 15 September and 15 October 2025. After 15 October 2025 registration will no longer be possible.

In eApply you will be told what documents you must upload in order to register for the entrance examination.

The examination fee must be paid by credit card in eApply during the registration process.

After you pass the entrance examination you may be asked to submit certain documents in the original (upper secondary school-leaving certificate, language certificate, etc.) in order to register for studies and for matriculation.
In eApply you will be told which documents must be submitted by post, and which documents must be uploaded in eApply.

You may withdraw your application via the eApply portal. The application fee will not be refunded.