Matriculation at ETH Zurich

General information: 

https://www.ethz.ch/en/doctorate/registration-admission.html

Application Deadlines: no specific deadlines for doctoral students.

1. Fill out either the pdf application form (bilingual German/English) which lists all the documents you need to provide.

https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/doctorate/files/application_form_doc.pdf

2. Ask your supervisor to sign the “Confirmation of doctoral thesis supervision” included in the application form above.

If your thesis supervisor is a honorary professor or a senior lecturer but not a professor at ETH, please also provide the following form:

https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/doctorate/files/approval_supervision.pdf

3. Pay the registration fee of CHF 50.- (holders of a Swiss Master degree but not ETH or EPFL) or 150.- (holders of a foreign Master degree) and send the payment slip or other proof of payment with your application.

Provided your application is complete, matriculation at ETH will be immediate. The admission as a PhD student is provisional at this stage and the official admission together with the decision regarding possible additional requirements to fulfill (courses, exams to take) will take longer.

Please also check the doctoral studies page of the department you will be doing your PhD at, there may be additional regulations to follow.

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