Bachelor's degree programmes | ZHAW School of Engineering

Reasons for choosing a Bachelor's degree programme

Bachelor's degree programmes

Practical relevance

Yearly structure

Why should you begin a Bachelor degree programme?

You have completed an apprenticeship and are finishing your course at vocational college? And now you want to learn more!
You already have professional experience? You now want to expand your career chances!
You have the school leaving certificate? Now is the time for a technical internship!
The Bachelor degree programme at the School of Engineering is practical, comprehensive, and specialised; it will be excellent preparation for your later career.

Bachelor degree programme at the School of Engineering

Aviation
Data Science
Electrical Engineering
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Informatics
Systems Engineering (Robotics and Mechatronics, Biomedical Engineering)
Mobility Science
Engineering and Management (Industrial Engineering, Data and Service Engineering, Business Mathematics)

^{Please note:
The bachelor degree programme in Business Information Technology is offered at the School of Management and Law. The bachelor degree programme in Environmental Engineering is offered at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management in Wädenswil.}

Collaboration with industry partners

The institutes and centres of the School of Engineering engage in research and development projects together with industrial and business partners. You will directly benefit from this. This is because the results of the research are continually incorporated into the teaching. In the project work and Bachelor thesis, you will work on your own topics in close collaboration with industrial companies and service providers.

For companies

Collaboration within the framework of project, Bachelor’s and Master’s theses

Yearly structure

Spring semester

Teaching period: calendar weeks 8–21
End-of-semester examinations: calendar weeks 24–26

Fall semester

Introductory week for first-semester students: calendar week 37
Teaching period: calendar weeks 38–51
End-of-semester examinations: calendar weeks 3–4

Teaching mainly takes place in the form of lectures, group classes, exercises and laboratory practicals.

The intersemester period lasts three weeks between the autumn and spring semesters and eleven weeks between the spring and autumn semesters. Depending on the degree programme, study model and year of study, block weeks, summer schools or other activities may take place during the intersemester periods.

Public holidays are not taken into account.