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.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 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: Pilot
• Graduate profile: Project manager

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).