Careers after bachelor's degree Aviation
Career after the bachelor's degree Aviation
After completion of the study programme, you will find challenging jobs in the fascinating field of aviation. In accordance with your personal interests, you will primarily be employed in project management in the following professional areas:
- Planning (Administration)
- Technology (Engineering)
- Operation (Management)
Your possible places of work will include the authorities, air traffic control, airports, airlines, maintenance companies, aircraft manufacturers and suppliers, the Air Force, the transportation industry (e.g. SBB), banks and insurance companies.
Professional area: Planning (Administration)
- Project administration and management
- Jobs with/for the authorities
- Mission control centre and dispatch (airline / air traffic control)
- Aeronautical information management (airline / air traffic control)
- Spatial planning (airports)
- Solution development (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- Deployment centre (Air Force)

“When the Aviation degree programme was created, I knew immediately that this was the right path for me to take. It wasn’t a rational decision, but rather an emotional one.”
Samuel Gessler, graduate of the Aviation Bachelor programme, A320 pilot with Swiss International Air Lines
Professional area: Technology (Engineering)
- Procurement, introduction, certification
- Operational Engineering (airline / traffic control)
- Maintenance, repair, overhaul of aircraft and air traffic control systems (airline / air traffic control)
- Operational engineering (airports)
- Airworthiness certification and maintenance (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- Customer support engineering (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- System integration and testing (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
Professional area: Operation (Management)
- Safety, risk and quality management
- Pilot with additional job function (airline / air traffic control)
- Network management (airline / air traffic control)
- Specialised job function (airline / air traffic control)
- Security management (airports)
- Airport management (airports)
- Airworthiness certification and maintenance (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- Customer support engineering (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- System integration and testing (maintenance companies / manufacturers)
- Operations research (Air force)
- Pilot / drone operator (Air force
Aircraft Technician
Aircraft technicians work for aircraft maintenance and servicing companies. The main tasks include the release of aircraft fol-lowing completed maintenance work. Graduates of the Aviation programme who are pursuing a licence as an Aircraft Technician B1 as per EASA Part 66 are granted credit for eight training modules. This significantly decreases the theoretical training time.
Graduate profile
Finding a job and salary expectations after graduating
Most graduates will find a suitable career start very quickly. The median starting salary is CHF 85,000.The chosen industry and specialty play an important role. Overall, the salary spectrum for engineers ranges between CHF 92,000 and 145,000 per year, depending on the industry, the area of activity, the hierarchy level and age. (Source: salaries for engineers and architects, special supplement Swiss Engineering, Sept. 2020).
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