Bachelor's Programmes at ZHAW Life Sciences and Facility Management
Seven bachelor’s degree programmes focusing on nutrition, health, the environment and digitalisation. With a wide range of specialisations, available as full-time or part-time courses. For anyone who really wants to make a difference.
Study for the future
The Bachelor’s programme at the ZHAW Department of Life Sciences and Facility Management (LSFM) provides up-to-date, industry-focused specialist knowledge with a strong practical focus, alongside general education and study skills. It leads to immediate employability.
Our seven Bachelor’s degree programmes, leading to a ‘Bachelor of Science’ qualification, are geared towards key future-oriented sectors: Life Sciences, Data Science, Food Science, Environment and Real Estate. All programmes can be studied on a full-time or part-time basis and provide practical preparation for all the challenges of the working world.
Who are the degree programmes aimed at?
A Bachelor’s degree at ZHAW Life Sciences and Facility Management is the right choice for you
- if you are looking for a future-proof education that combines sound specialist knowledge with practical application.
- wish to actively promote health, quality of life and the environment, now and for future generations.
At a glance
- Title: Bachelor of Science ZHAW
- Workload: 180 credits (ECTS)
- Duration: 6 semesters in full-time, part-time possible
- Start: mid-September; one week earlier for all new 1st semester students
- Location: Wädenswil on Lake Zurich (20 km from Zurich)
- Language of instruction: German, BSc Natural Resouces partly taught in English
- Tuition fees: CHF 720.00 per semester
Unique in Switzerland, this degree programme combines life sciences, data science and digitalisation. Natural science skills are combined with various digital tools and data-based methods. Students conduct research in the laboratory and in the environment while acquiring skills in programming, artificial intelligence, data engineering, modelling and simulation. The Bachelor's programme leads to labour market qualification and opens up excellent job opportunities. Thanks to the interdisciplinary approach, you will acquire important and perfectly balanced skills to get started in the life sciences.
Brochure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Applied Digital Life Sciences» (PDF 597 kB)
Detailed information about the Bachelor in Applied Digital Life Sciences
This study programme is unique in Switzerland. At the interface between biomedicine, laboratory analytics, new digital possibilities and patient welfare, this programme meets a growing demand in diagnostics and therapy. The Bachelor's degree qualifies you for a career in biomedical laboratory diagnostics. Professional experience and further continuing education, will subsenqently enable you to assume roles in management, education and research. Further training options include, for example, a Master's degree in Switzerland or abroad.
Brochure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Biomedizinische Labordiagnostik» (PDF 693 kB)
Detailed information about the Bachelor in Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics
The Bachelor's degree in biotechnology combines biological, medical and technical sciences. You will learn to utilise findings from biology and biochemistry, to apply technical processes to the production of new substances for industrial products or medicines, and to analyse thes products or medicines. As a biotechnologist, you will work in various fields such as in the food, detergents or health sectors.
Brochure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Biotechnologie» (PDF 0.93 MB)
The Bachelor's degree in chemistry prepares you for a future career, and provides you with a broad theoretical and practical education in chemistry, as well as life sciences and chemical engineering technology with mathematics and physics as a foundation. As a chemist, you will deal with the structure, properties and transformation of substances. You will develop, synthesise and analyse a wide variety of substances, taking into account economic efficiency, safety and environmental protection.
Broschure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Chemie» (PDF 796 kB)
The Bachelor's degree in Facility Management provides you with the necessary knowledge to manage real estate and facilities economically and sustainably. In addition, you will learn how to optimise building systems in terms of the structural infrastructure and how it is used, how to design supportive workplaces, and how to develop, organise and realise innovative services and events. You will also learn about business management methods, team leadership and interdisciplinary work.
Brochure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Facility Management» (PDF 1.15 MB)
Detailed information about the Bachelor in Facility Management
The Bachelor's degree programme in Food Science combines the natural sciences with food-specific, nutritional, technical, ecological and business management knowledge. You will learn to analyse the needs of consumers, optimise processing procedures, develop new products, packaging and production facilities and test the quality of food.
Brochure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Food Science» (PDF 540 kB)Detailed information about the Bachelor in Food Science
In the Natural Resource Sciences degree programme, your studies will be practice-oriented in the fields of environment, nature, renewable energies, organic agriculture, sustainable development, eco-technology, nature management and urban ecosystems. You will overcome interesting challenges that arise from the interplay between economic and social demand, and from the requirements of protected land use and landscape development.
Broschure (German language only) «Bachelorstudium Umweltingenieurwesen» (PDF 1.10 MB)
Detailed information about the Bachelor in Natural Resource Sciences