ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich advises students to beware of fraud offering cheap apartments in attractive locations. Landlords may pretend to be overseas and unable to show the apartment in person and then ask for a deposit transfer in advance. Its recommended to always visit the place physically before seeing a room and contact the university if anything seems fishy.

Yes students can live in the student residences that usually cost between CHF 580-800/month or INR 68.3k-94.2k at ETH Zurich. Whereas the rooms in shared
apartments (WG) can cost up to CHF 1,000/month or INR 1.1L

For the MS courses offered at ETH Zurich, Indian students are required to be academically inclined and meet certain admission deadlines. These students should have at least 3 years of full-time study and 180 ECTS credits. Look at the other ETH Zurich admission requirements - 

• A relevant UG degree
• A high GPA (like above 8.8 on the scale of 10)
• English proficiency requirements by tests like IELTS or TOEFL
• A Curriculum Vitae 
• Motivation letter
• Recommendation letters

Yes, ETH Zurich is one of the most popular institutions of the world and the Engineering courses offered here are too. 

As per Shiksha Popularity Rankings, these MS courses offered here are ranked #1. Other than Shiksha, the other popular ranking bodies like THE, QS and ARWU have also ranked this institution. Given below are the rankings, take a look -

• Times Higher Education: #3
• QS: #5
• ARWU: #10 

It can be considered really hard to get into the MS courses at ETH Zurich as the overall acceptance rate here is only 10% which can also be the case with the MS courses as well. 

To get in, Indian students are required to work really hard and meet the admission requirements given below - 

• A good GPA
• Extracurriculars
• A great personal essay 

Yes ETH Zurich acceptance rate stands around 27% meaning out of every 100 candidates who apply for its admission process upto 27 will  be accepted. This makes it very hard to get into the university as only onefifth of the applicants will be offered admission

Yes PG students can apply to two different programmes per sem at ETH Zurich. Each application will have a different application number and thus will be evaluated individually. However, you can accept only one place offered even if you get accepted in both 

ETH Zurich specifies that students may have to wait for a few months  after the submission of their application since there is a lot of processing that goes on to have a fair evaluation. They can expect a decision by March end for PG courses.

No students are only allowed to apply to one degree programme at a time. They can do so by selecting their desired programme on the eApply portal of ETH Zurich.

The main language of instruction for Bachelor's degree courses is German. For this German C1 language certificate must be submitted. These shouldnt be older than 3 years.

For master's courses the language of instruction could be both German or English but English proficiency proof is mandatory