Master's degree studies - autumn 2025

Where to find your ETH user name, ETH email and initial password

Your Master’s programme registration is complete and you have received your ETH user name and your ETH email address by email (as of mid-July).

Be sure to check your mailbox regularly at mail.ethz.ch. All correspondence (e.g. the semester invoices) will be sent to your ETH email address.

You will find your initial password in your eApply application account. Please log on to eApply and click on 'My User Account'. Your initial password will be displayed there. 

If you have forgotten your password for your eApply application account, click on 'Forgot your password'.

How to set your personal ETH passwords & multifactor-authentication

The initial password is only valid for your login to the WebCenter. There you must complete an onboarding process. Follow the instructions on Download www.its.ethz.ch/flyer-students (PDF, 117 KB).

If you have any questions, please contact the ITS Service Desk.

First login to myStudies and address update

The myStudies application will guide you through all administrative matters relating to your studies, as for example the semester enrolment.
To enrol for the first semester, go to www.mystudies.ethz.ch and log in, using your ETH user name and ETH password for web applications, AAI (LDAP).

Before you enrol for the semester, you must verify your addresses. Your correspondence address, your alternative/parents’ address and your residential address will be displayed. Please update them if necessary.

After verifying/updating your addresses, please enrol for the first semester by the end of the second semester week at the latest (Sunday, 28 September 2025). After this date, a late enrolment fee will be charged.

When enrolling for a semester, voluntary contributions must be set to “Yes” or “No”.

Please note that a leave of absence is not possible for first-semester Master students (see the pertaining regulations and exceptions on the website Leave of absence).

IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED AT ANOTHER UNIVERSITY, please note:
ETH Zurich does not permit double matriculations. If you want to start your Master’s studies at ETH you will have to deregister from your current studies by the start of the semester at the latest. If it becomes apparent that you are enrolled double, we will have to de-matriculate you from the Master's programme at ETH.

If you cannot start your studies or decide not to continue with your studies, please make sure to inform us by email (registrar@ethz.ch) until Sunday, 12 October 2025, at the latest.

If you have already received your ETH card, please return it to us by post or at our counter.

After Sunday, 12 October 2025, the semester invoice must be paid. If you decide to withdraw after this date, you have to inform us in writing using the withdrawal form.