Changing to a different degree programme

• Students who enter Bachelor’s degree studies at ETH Zurich may change degree programmes a maximum of twice before they obtain the Bachelor’s degree.
• However, a second change of degree programme is not possible if the affected student was irrevocably excluded from the first and second original degree programme .
• If you failed the first-year examinations or other examinations once or twice in the original degree programme, a change of degree programme is in some cases not possible or is only possible under certain conditions. See the corresponding directive or appendix (PDF, 269 KB).
• A change of degree programme does not exempt students from the consequences of failure to respect programme deadlines. Said consequences may involve, for example, exclusion from the degree programme.

Send a written request by email to the Registrar’s Office, at the earliest after enrolment begins for the following semester ().

You will receive written notification after your request has been examined.

After beginning Master’s degree studies at ETH Zurich you may change programmes only once before acquiring your Master’s degree.

If you hold a Bachelor’s degree from ETH Zurich, send a written request by post or email to the Registrar’s Office if

• you wish to enter a Master’s degree programme in the same discipline as your Bachelor’s programme which, as per the pertaining Master’s degree programme regulations, is consecutive to it, and at the time of your request no more than four years have passed since you acquired your Bachelor’s degree;
• you wish to enter a consecutive Master’s degree programme in a different discipline than that of your Bachelor’s programme. Any progression will be subject to the stipulations of the pertaining Master’s degree programme regulations. At the time of your request, no more than four years may have passed since you acquired your Bachelor’s degree.