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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).
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.
Swissuniversities (stylised as swᴉssunᴉversᴉtᴉes) is the umbrella organization of universities and colleges in Switzerland. [1]Swissuniversities has 38 member institutions, [2] including the two federal institutes of technology, ten cantonal universities, ten (state-run and private) [3] universities of applied sciences, [4] and sixteen universities of teacher education.
The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology are two institutes of higher education in Switzerland (part of the ETH Domain): Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ)
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’.
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 Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Domain, German: ETH-Bereich, French: Domaine des Écoles polytechniques fédérales) is a union of Swiss governmental universities and research institutions. It primarily consists of the following institutions: [2]