Australia

Additional costs

• You must take out a mandatory insurance (Overseas Student Health Cover, OSHC) even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance. The insurance is a visa requirement. You can nominate ANU to arrange OSHC for you or you can source your own OSHC provider prior to arriving in Australia. Further information can be found on the external page website of ANU.
• Some courses with field trip components may charge additional fees (minimal).
• external page Cost of living
• external page Visa costs
   

Accommodation

See this information on external page accommodation and an overview of external page student residences at ANU.

Course planning

For course selection at the Australian National University (ANU), as follows:

• external page Course offer according to Programs & Courses
• You must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them.
• Table overview below

Course attendance at the medical school is not possible. The School of Art and Music has additional requirements (portfolio and auditions).

Additional costs

• You must take out a mandatory insurance (Overseas Student Health Cover, OSHC) even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance. The insurance is a visa requirement. Further information can be found on the external page website of the University of Melbourne.
• external page Cost of living
• external page Visa costs
   

Accommodation

The University of Melbourne can assist to arrange housing but they do not provide housing. See the information on external page accommodation at the University of Melbourne.
 

Course planning

For course selection at the University of Melbourne, note:

• external page Information on selecting your subjects (course = "subject")
• Course offer according to the external page handbook (if not yet published for the following academic year: use current year for provisional study planning)
• external page Any faculty-specific requirements and restrictions
• You must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them.
• Table overview below

Courses of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Biomedicine are not open to exchange students. These courses are prefixed "BIOM" and an entry in the external page handbook indicates that they are only open to students enrolled in the respective degree programme.

ETH students may apply for the terms only in the above constellation. Other constellations are not permitted, i.e. you cannot take only one term!

* Normally the language certificate, adhering to the pertaining requirements, must be valid at the start of the exchange at the host university. Note that this depends on the exchange semester. If you wish to go on an exchange in the Spring Semester your exchange will start later than if you want to participate in the Autumn Semester, therefore the language certificate must accordingly be valid for longer. Your English test must be dated on or after the 1st of January (two years prior) for Term 1 commencement or the 1st of June (two years prior) for Term 3 commencement. Apart from the period of validity, note also the overall scores of individual language certificates. Note: Exchange students only have to achieve the 'overall' score for IELTS and TOEFL, (currently 6.5 IELTS or 90 TOEFL (iBT) for exchange students) but not the detailed results ('sub tests') listed on UNSW's website on language requirements.

As a pilot scheme (not reflected on the website), UNSW accepts the Swiss Matura with grade 5 in English or the German Abitur with grade 12 in English, as long as it is not more than 10 years old at the start of the exchange.

Even Cambridge Diplomas (CAE, CPE) are not valid indefinitely, respectively that host universities publish regulations to their accepted validity on their website.

If you think that you are exempt from a language test because of the information given under "Senior Secondary Qualifications" (check validity; unlikely to apply) or "Post-Secondary or Tertiary Qualifications in English" (check validity and criteria "full-time" and "consequity"), check this carefully and obtain individual written confirmation from the university. If a confirmation from ETH Zurich about English lectures and examinations is required, clarify with your department whether it can issue such a confirmation. The Student Exchange Office can neither advise nor support you; the language certificate is entirely your responsibility.  

Listed above are only the language requirements of the respective university. The external page Australian Government also has language requirements for certain citizenships (in reference to student visas). Students need to check and meet these too.

Additional costs

• You must take out a mandatory insurance (Overseas Student Health Cover, OSHC)  even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance. The insurance is a visa requirement. You receive details of how to obtain OSHC when you are accepted into the exchange programme.
• external page Cost of living
• external page Visa costs
   

Accommodation

See the information on external page accommodation and the external page UNSW Exchange Fact Sheet

Course planning

For course selection at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), note:

• external page Information incl. restrictions in the UNSW Exchange Fact Sheet
• Course offer according to the external page Handbook: Select undergraduate or postgraduate, search by program or course. Click on the name of the course for course description incl. pre-requisites.
• Check availability per semester via external page Timetable: Check semester availability of courses based on current academic year
• You must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them.
• Table overview below

* Normally the language certificate, adhering to the pertaining requirements, must be valid at the time of the start of the exchange at the host university. The time of application to the host university depends on the exchange semester. For Spring Semester application is later, and the language certificate must accordingly be valid for longer. Apart from the period of validity, note also the requirements in terms of detailed results and scores for individual language certificates, and the sometimes varying requirements of individual faculties/courses. Language requirements differ according to the academic level (undergraduate / postgraduate).

Even Cambridge Diplomas (CAE, CPE) are not valid indefinitely, respectively that host universities publish regulations to their accepted validity on their website.

If you think that you are exempt from a language test because of the information given under "undertake secondary or higher education (tertiary) studies in English" or "complete a specific subject in a recognised secondary education qualification", check this carefully and obtain individual written confirmation from the university. If a confirmation from ETH about English lectures and examinations is required, clarify with your department whether it can issue such a confirmation. The Student Exchange Office can neither advise nor support you; the language certificate is entirely your responsibility.  

Listed above are only the language requirements of the respective university. The external page Australian Government also has language requirements for certain citizenships (in reference to student visas). Students need to check and meet these too.

Additional costs

• You must take out a mandatory insurance (Overseas Student Health Cover, OSHC) even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance. The insurance is a visa requirement. Further information can be found on the external page website of the University of Sydney.
• external page Cost of living
• external page Visa costs
   

Accommodation

The University of Sydney offers exchange students guaranteed accommodation within a 15 minute walk to campus and located on the doorstep of downtown Sydney. Contracts start the week before Orientation and finish the week after the final exam period. Students will be provided with application forms after they receive their offer letter from their host university. Find out more by visiting the external page Student Accommodation Services.
 

Course planning

For course selection at the University of Sydney, note:

• external page Information on the websites
• Courses offered to exchange students according to the external page Unit of Study Tools, searchable in 3 ways: Master Lists, Thematic Lists and Department Lists (if not yet published for the following academic year: use current year for provisional study planning)
• You must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them.
• Table overview below
• For D-ARCH: If you want to take a studio unit, a portfolio of your preferred work must be submitted when you register at the host university.

Exchange Students are precluded from enrolling in graduate units of study offered by the Faculty of Medicine and Sydney Nursing School, clinical units in the School of Psychology and all Dentistry Programs, and the Sydney Law School.