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The Zentrum campus of the ETH Zurich at night. The campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne , at the shores of Lake Geneva . The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons .
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 .
Unified State Exam (Russian: Единый государственный экзамен, ЕГЭ, romanized: Yediniy gosudarstvenniy ekzamen, EGE) – every student must pass after graduation from school to enter a university or a professional college. Since 2009, EGE is the only form of graduation examinations in schools and the main form of ...
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).
Graduate schools will typically provide the average scores of previously admitted students and information about how the GRE is considered in admissions and funding decisions. In some cases, programs have hard cut off requirements for the GRE; for example, the Yale Economics PhD program requires a minimum quantitative score of 160 to apply. [51]
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 ...
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 Louis Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
1854: A Parliamentary resolution establishes a federal polytechnic school in Zurich, on the basis of the 1848 constitution. 15 October 1855: Opening of the ‘Swiss Federal Polytechnic School’ with six divisions, including the Engineering School and – although not originally envisaged – the ‘Building School’.