Bachelor's degree programmes | ZHAW School of Engineering

Reasons for choosing a Bachelor's degree programme

Why start a Bachelor’s degree programme?

Have you completed an apprenticeship and are you finishing your vocational baccalaureate? Now you want to learn more!
Do you already have professional experience? Now you want to expand your career opportunities!
Have you completed an academic baccalaureate? Now you want to put your knowledge into practice!

What you can expect

Solid foundations

Mathematics and the natural sciences provide an essential foundation for engineers. In your first year, you will build this foundation alongside the fundamentals of your chosen discipline.

Variety and choice

All our degree programmes offer a broad range of modules, allowing you to specialise according to your interests and career goals.

Up-to-date knowledge

Our lecturers work with partner companies to develop technical solutions to real-world problems. Their findings and insights are continually incorporated into teaching.

Practical experience

During your studies, you will develop practical solutions through project-based learning, group work and your Bachelor’s thesis, sometimes in collaboration with companies.

Combining work and study

All our degree programmes are also available on a part-time basis. A compact timetable makes it possible to combine part-time studies with employment.

Tradition and innovation

The history of the former Technikum Winterthur dates back to 1874. Student traditions still reflect its long history and the creativity of our students today.

Bachelor degree programme at the School of Engineering

Aviation
Data Science
Electrical Engineering
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering)
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.