UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH
ZÜRICH
Zürich is Switzerland’s biggest city, with some 375.000 people in the city proper and 1.1 million inhabitants in the greater urban area. It is the country’s commercial and cultural centre, and has been named the world’s best city to live in in Mercer Consulting's annual 'World-wide Quality of Living Survey'.
UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH
The University of Zürich (UZ) has seven faculties of Theology; Law; Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology; Medicine; Veterinarian Medicine; Arts; and Science. With 24,000 students and 1,900 graduates every year, Zurich is also Switzerland’s largest university. The main language of instruction is German, but some courses are taught in English. See the faculty pages to find out which.
ASSORTED FACTS
TUITION
Erasmus students are escempt from the tuition fee.Tuition fees for undergraduates are approximately CHF 1,300 per year and about CHF 300 per year for doctoral students. Living costs amount to about CHF 18,000 per year. CHF100 = ca NOK 530.
ACCOMMODATION
The Housing Office of the University of Zurich publishes a list of student residences. The average monthly rent is about CHF 550 for a room with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. Apartments, both furnished and unfurnished, are also available.
KEY DATES
The winter semester lasts from primo September through February, with lectures from late October to mid-February and a two week Christmas holiday in December-January. The spring semester lectures run from mid-February to the end of May.
VISA
Norwegian students do not need a visa for Switzerland, but those who will stay more than 3 months need to apply for a residence permit.
CURIO
Zürich has an extreme variety of possibilities for night-time leisure. It has become one of the capitals of Europe's electronic music scene and it is the host city of the world-famous Street Parade. The Street Parade is the most attended technoparade in Europe. Comparable to Berlin's Love Parade, the Street Parade is as of 2004 one of the largest techno parties in the world. Zürich has been home to many notable people – among these are Richard Wagner, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Thomas Mann, James Joyce (buried at Fluntern cemetery in Zürich), and Tina Turner, to mention a few.
LINKS: THE UNIVERSITY AND ANSA'S COUNTRY PAGES
http://www.unizh.ch/index.en.html
http://www.ansa.no/land/sveits |
