Most universities offer summer courses during the summer break - from June to September - to students from Switzerland and abroad. This gives master and PhD students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic, with peers from around the world benefitting from this international and intercultural environment.
The ETH Zurich and EPFL jointly offer a wide range of summer schools open to master and PhD students from Switzerland and abroad. The topics of the courses include quantum computing, big data and machine learning for chemistry, micro-systems for diagnostics and health applications among others. For further information regarding application procedures and deadlines, click here.
The ETH Zurich also offers summer courses in robotics, sustainability and food systems in transition, as well as in other topics. Application details and deadlines can be found here.
The Faculty of Business and Economics offer courses open to Bachelor and Master students in Law, Business and Economic policy. Applications usually open in March and courses are held between June and September. For more information, click here.
The University of Bern offers courses for Bachelor and Master students in various disciplines, including chemistry, humanities and social sciences, climate and environment, medicine, psychology, business, economics and law. For more information regarding application procedures and deadlines follow the link below.
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Each year, the University of Fribourg offers summer and winter schools organized by faculties or research institutions. Researchers can also take part in short research stay programs or get in touch with the university to customize their program. For more informations click here.
Each year, the University of Geneva offers courses in a wide variety of disciplines. These include International Law, Communications, Sustainability and Intellectual Property among others. Students from all over the world are welcome to apply, some courses offer partial or full tuition fee waivers. For more details about the course offerings click on the link.
The University of Lausanne offers summer and winter schools in topics including Gender Studies – in partnership with the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Forensic Science and Transdisciplinary Nature Conservation. Depending on the course, they are available to Bachelor, Master or PhD students. For more informations, including application procedures, visit their website here.
The GSERM Global School in Empirical Research Methods is a high-calibre integrated generic programme on methodology launched by the University of St. Gallen. Master, PhD students, Post-Docs and also practitioners from all kinds of study fields and industries collecting data and analysing in different methods of statistics are welcomed. The courses are usually held in June, with application open until April. For further details and application fees and procedures, click here.
The Summer School in Social Science Methods is offered by the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) and has been conceived for those who feel the need to refresh, deepen and widen their methodological knowledge and skills, whatever their professional situation: student, researcher or practitioner. More information regarding course work and applications here.
The University of Zurich offers summer courses open to Bachelor and Master students on the topics of Blockchain, Finance for the Future, Leadership in the Future of Work and on the development of Switzerland. The courses will be held online in July 2021. Students from certain schools may get discounts on the course fees.
