Admission prerequisites
Holders of a Bachelor’s degree from a university of applied sciences from a signatory state of the Lisbon Convention may apply for a large number of ETH Zurich Master’s degree programmes provided that they fulfil certain formal requirements.
Formal prerequisites
You earned your Bachelor’s degree at a recognised university of applied sciences in a external pagesignatory state of the Lisbon Conventioncall_made. Your Bachelor’s degree is based upon academic accomplishments comprising at least 180 ECTS credits. Your degree also qualifies you to enter a consecutive Master’s programme without additional requirements at a university in the original university system.
Any other academic accomplishments recognised must also have been acquired at a recognised university.
At the time of application you do not yet have to present the Bachelor’s degree. If you are admitted you must submit proof of the Bachelor’s degree, including the final overall grade, by the beginning of the semester at the very latest.
We only accept applications which are submitted online by the deadline and which contain all required documents.
A degree from a university of applied sciences in other countries unfortunately does not qualify the holder for Master’s degree studies at ETH Zurich.
Minimum Bachelor’s degree grade
Admission presupposes an overall Bachelor’s degree grade which corresponds to the stipulations of Art. 11 of the directive DownloadAdmission to Master’s degree programmes (PDF, 191 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
Swiss university of applied sciences
For admission with a Bachelor’s degree from a Swiss university of applied sciences, an overall grade of at least a 5.0 (Swiss grading system) is required.
Other university of applied sciences
For admission with a Bachelor’s degree from a German Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften or an Austrian Fachhochschule an average grade of 2.0 (German resp. Austrian grading system) is required.
If the academic achievements are reported by the university of applied sciences in ECTS grades or other foreign grading systems, they will be converted by ETH Zurich into the Swiss grading system.
If Bachelor’s degree studies have not yet been completed at the time of application, the required overall rating must be certificated and submitted before lectures begin at ETH Zurich.
Disciplinary prerequisites
The profile of requirements describes the knowledge and skills required for the respective Master’s degree programme. It will also tell you whether application to that degree programme is possible for holders of a degree from a university of applied sciences. For an overview of degree programmes see also here.
The profile of requirements is oriented towards the content, scope, quality and skills level of the corresponding ETH Zurich Bachelor’s degree.
Profiles of requirements
Additional requirements for Master’s degree studies
During their Master’s degree studies, graduates of universities of applied sciences must complete additional study achievements comprising 40 to 60 credits in the corresponding ETH Zurich Bachelor’s degree programme.
The specific additional requirements are determined during the acceptance procedure and communicated in the acceptance letter.
The respective study achievements may only be completed when the student matriculates in Master’s degree studies at ETH Zurich.
Language prerequisites
Most Master’s degree programmes at ETH Zurich are taught in English; some require knowledge of both English and German; ands some are taught mostly in German.
Holders of a Bachelor’s degree from a university of applied sciences must also provide a German language certificate for programmes taught in English, if their Bachelor’s degree was not taught in German as the additional requirements of more than 40 credits from the ETH Bachelor's programme must be fulfilled, some of which are taught in German.
Exclusion
If you have been definitively excluded from one or more study programmes at ETH Zurich or another university, admission to that study programme at any level is not possible.