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EPFL Education Trends: Enhancing Excellence in Research and Engineering Projects

Explore the educational and research trends at EPFL, one of the top engineering universities in the world. Discover the internationalization of students and faculty, top European rankings, alumni employment rates, and research publications.

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EPFL Education Trends: Enhancing Excellence in Research and Engineering Projects

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  1. UniBa UniSG UniZH UniNe UniLu UniBe UniFr UniL USI UniGe The Swiss Context Swiss Universities A national mission, An international environment

  2. EPFL Education Total Number of Students A steady increase 7’162 Nb of students * 7'000 6'500 6'000 5'500 5'000 4'500 4'000 3'500 3'000 2008 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 * Bachelor, Master, PhD, Postgraduate (CMS not included)

  3. 1990 2009 45.2% 44.7% (354) (1785) 29.1% 27.4% 18.4% 8.2% 6.2% 10.7% SWISS EUROPE AMERICA ASIA 8.2% 1.5% AFRICA 0.3% 0.2% OCEANIA EPFL Education Recruitment Origin of PhD students

  4. EPFL Faculty Trends Internationalization of EPFL Nationality of Faculty Middle East, Asia 2 % Middle East, Asia 4 % USA 4 % USA 5 % CH 44 % Europe 31 % CH 63 % 179 327 Europe 47 % of which: France 10% Germany 10% 2000 2009 Full Prof., Associate Prof., Assistant Prof. “tenure track”, Prof. tit.

  5. Excellence in Research International Rankings Top 100 World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences, 2008 EPFL Nr 2 in Europe

  6. EPFL Research European Grants 2007-2009 ERC Grants Ranking The top 10 in Basic Sciences, Life Sciences and Engineering 1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 24 CH 2 ETHZ - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 23 CH 3 University of Oxford 22 UK 4 University of Cambridge 21 UK 5 Weizmann Institute of Science 20 ISR 6 Imperial College 19 UK 7 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 16 ISR 8 University College London 11 UK 9 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 10 ISR University of Bristol 10 UK including interdisciplinary research, excl. social sciences and humanities Nb grants / institution (10 grants or more)

  7. Innovate & Transfer School Projects Engineering projects Solar Impulse Alinghi Contribute to motivating projects ... -> for our students -> for our researchers -> for our region -> for Switzerland Hydroptère

  8. Engineering Education

  9. Net Employment Rate * 100% 385 Nb of employed graduates 589 90.0% 91.5% % of employed graduates 89.0% 87.6% 88.9% 80% 85.5% 87.0% 84.0% 82.5% 60% 40% 20% 0% 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2004 2006 2008 EPFL Education Alumni Employment of EPFL Graduates -> Employment rate remains stable over the years despite an increase of the number of graduates * Proportion of EPFL graduates having a job compared to the global number of graduates (excl. those going for a PhD), one year after Diploma

  10. Have a good conference!

  11. EPFL Research Trends Number of ISI publications

  12. EPFL Research Trends Scientific output Strong increase of the number of citations

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