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ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
The University of Basel is the oldest institution of higher learning in Switzerland.. This list of universities in Switzerland lists all public and private higher education institutions accredited and coordinated according to the Federal Act on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss Higher Education Sector (short: Federal Higher Education Act, HEdA).
University of Zurich: University 28,121 [2] 2021 2: ETH Zurich: University 24,530 [3] 2021 3: University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland: University of Applied Sciences and Arts 21,270 [4] 2022 4 University of Bern: University 19,297 [5] 2022 5 University of Geneva: University 17,744 [6] 2022 Excl. Institute of Teacher Education 6 ...
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003, making it the first global university ranking with multifarious indicators.
In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, TUM ranks 27th in business and economics, 22nd in the physical sciences, 22nd in engineering and technology, and 15th in computer science, and is the highest ranked German university in these areas. [29]
École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Lois Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
Marc Pollefeys (born 01 May 1971) [1] is a Belgian computer scientist and professor for computer science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as well as partner director of science at Microsoft. [2] [3] He is director of Microsoft's Mixed Reality & AI Lab – Zurich. Pollefeys was born in Anderlecht, Belgium.
Another dedicated computer resource operated by CSCS is the Swiss tier-2 computer cluster for the Computing Grid of the CERN LHC accelerator. CSCS also provides storage services for massive data sets of the Swiss systems biology initiative SystemsX and the Centre for Climate Systems Modelling C2SM at ETH Zurich.