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Bachelor & Master degree from the Faculty of Science
Please contact the corresponding group leader in the Research pages directly if you are interested in a Bachelor- or in a Master thesis.
Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Science
To be eligible for a PhD. thesis, applicants must hold a Master degree.
The University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich very much emphasize career development. Therefore, they have established the joint Life Science Zurich Graduate School and initiated several specific PhD programs which offer talented and ambitious PhD. students an ideal environment for further education. Almost all research groups of the University and the ETH participate in at least one PhD. program. The admission of a candidate into such a program is subject to passing a competitive evaluation procedure.
Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Medicine
The doctoral degree from the Faculty of Medicine covers, in addition to the general doctoral degree (the graduation to Doctor of Medicine), two further doctoral programmes: the doctoral program Biomedical Ethics and Law and a biological-natural sciences MD-PhD program, which is offered by the Faculty of Science in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine.
Information: Doctoral degree MeF (PDF, 54 KB)
A large number of doctoral subjects are offered at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (PhF), such as Psychology
The doctorate revolves around writing a thesis demonstrating your ability to do independent scholarly research. You also complete modules earning a total of 12 ECTS credits. The maximum duration of doctoral studies is six years. This also applies if you are doing your doctorate part-time. This period begins with your admission to doctoral studies and ends with conferral of the doctoral degree. After you have successfully completed the doctoral level, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences confers the title of Doctor of Philosophy. The title is Dr. phil. (equivalent to PhD in English).