Life on campus
The ZHAW is centrally located, modern and unites five health professions under one roof.
Centrally located campus on the urban Sulzerarea
The campus of the School of Health Sciences is conveniently located at Sulzerareal, a mere eight-minute walk from Winterthur main train station, where it benefits from the modern infrastructure of Adeline Favre House at Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9. Workspaces and Wi-Fi hotspots are available to students throughout the campus, and the Chez Adeline cafeteria offers a variety of reasonably priced meals and snacks, as well as many microwave ovens for self-catering.
Sports and leisure activities
The ZHAW Students' Association (Alias ZHAW) is a lobby group for supporting students. It performs political tasks and is dedicated to student life. The Alias ZHAW organises events for students such as the end of term parties, the “Studitreff” meeting place and campaign days. «Brainstorm» Magazin is the students' official means of communication, a magazine by students for students.
The sports activities at the ZHAW are coordinated by the Academic Sports Association Zurich ASVZ. As members of ASVZ, students profit from a wide-ranging sports programme with numerous team and individual sports at the facilities in Winterthur, Zurich and Wädenswil. For those interested in music, the alpha-cappella welcomes any student who wishes to sing in a choir at the ZHAW.
University library
The ZHAW library in Winterthur was completed in 2014 and is now the largest library at a university of applied sciences in German-speaking Switzerland. The library is housed in the former Sulzer industrial building with its ten metre high factory hall and the old crane tracks still visible. Covering a floor space of over 6,000 square metres, it has become the new common home of the former five specialist libraries and shelves media items from the fields of architecture, health, linguistics, technology and economics. The university library is an independent building with a cafeteria, libraries and workplaces as well as a generous study environment on the top floor.
Student city Winterthur
Winterthur with its approximately 100,000 inhabitants is the sixth largest city in Switzerland. The many young people, some from the ZHAW, make the city a vibrant place at all times of the day. Winterthur features numerous clubs, restaurants, bars, theatres, museums and cinemas. It also regularly hosts multi-day live music events such as the Albanifest, an African music festival in spring, and the famous Winterthur Open Air Festival. Since 2020, the campus of the School of Health Siences is located on the Sulzer Area, where a new, urban district is being created with housing, parks, shops, bars and restaurants.
StudiPortal and Social Media
The StudiPortal is a Web portal that provides helpful information for students to organise their daily life. The idea behind the StudiPortal is simple: "Invest more time in studying and less time on administrative tasks!"
Students find all sorts of helpful information about the study programmes on the School of Health Sciences' Facebook profile and its own YouTube channel. A team of students regularly blogs on Facebook and keeps you up to date about their current every day student life with their posts.
Additional information
Studying in Switzerland
Switzerland supports students from other European countries studying at the ZHAW.
International Studies
Spending a semester or a clinical placement abroad is a priceless experience for any student and offers the opportunity to learn how professions are taught and practised in other countries.
Brochure International Relations
We offer a wide range of courses for international students. Learn more about our international activities in our brochure.
Studying in Switzerland
International Studies
Brochure International Relations
Switzerland supports students from other European countries studying at the ZHAW.
Spending a semester or a clinical placement abroad is a priceless experience for any student and offers the opportunity to learn how professions are taught and practised in other countries.
We offer a wide range of courses for international students. Learn more about our international activities in our brochure.