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Federal Polytechnic Institute

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich
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Other name
German: Polytechnikum (colloquially)
Former name
Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule
Type Public
Established 1855
Budget CHF1.7 billion (2015)
President Lino Guzzella
Rector Sarah Springman
Academic staff
7,798 (full-time equivalents 2015, 30.9% female, 62.3% foreign nationals)
Administrative staff
1,227 (full-time equivalents 2015, 40.6% female, 19.3% foreign nationals)
Students 19,233 (headcount 2015, 30.5% female, 37.6% foreign nationals)
Undergraduates 8,704
Postgraduates 5,447
4,026
Other students
1,056
Address Rämistr. 101
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland

47°22′35″N 8°32′53″E / 47.37639°N 8.54806°E / 47.37639; 8.54806Coordinates: 47°22′35″N 8°32′53″E / 47.37639°N 8.54806°E / 47.37639; 8.54806
Campus Urban
Language German, English (only Masters and upwards)
Affiliations CESAER, EUA, GlobalTech, IARU, IDEA League
Website www.ethz.ch
As of September 2016
University rankings
Global
ARWU 19
Times 9
QS 8
Europe
ARWU 4
Times 4
QS 4

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution EPFL, it is an integral part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain) that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research.

ETH Zurich is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. It is currently ranked as 5th best university in the world for the subject of engineering and technology, just behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Cambridge University and National University of Singapore in the QS World University Rankings by Subject . It is ranked 8th in the world in the 2016 edition of the QS World University Rankings, while the QS World University Rankings by Subject has ranked it as the best university in the world for Earth & Marine Sciences in both 2015/16 and 2016/17's editions.

Twenty-one Nobel Prizes have been awarded to students or professors of the Institute in the past, the most famous of whom was Albert Einstein with the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Niels Bohr who was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, both for work dealing with quantum physics. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and a member of the CESAER network.


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