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A national mission, An international environment

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The Swiss Context Swiss Universities

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A steady increase

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Nb of students * 7’162

EPFL Education Total Number of Students

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29.1%

45.2% 44.7%

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27.4%

EPFL Education Recruitment

Origin of PhD students

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Internationalization of EPFL

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Nationality of Faculty

Full Prof., Associate Prof., Assistant Prof. “tenure track”, Prof. tit.

2000 2009

CH63 %

CH44 %

Europe47 %

Europe31 %

USA5 %

USA4 %

Middle East,Asia 2 %

Middle East,Asia 4 %

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of which:France 10%Germany 10%

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EPFL Nr 2

in Europe

Top 100 World Universities in Engineering/Technologyand Computer Sciences, 2008

1. Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA 2. Stanford Univ USA 3. Univ I llinois - Urbana Champaign USA 4. Univ California - Berkeley USA 5. Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 6. Univ Texas - Austin USA 7. Carnegie Mellon Univ USA 8. Georgia Inst Tech USA 9. Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park USA 10. Univ California - San Diego USA 11. Univ Southern California USA 12. California Inst Tech USA 13. Univ California - Santa Barbara USA 14. Univ Maryland - Coll Park USA 15. Univ Cambridge UK 16. Cornell Univ USA 17. Purdue Univ - West Lafayette USA 18. Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne Switzerland 19. Tohoku Univ J apan 20. Northwestern Univ USA 21. Univ Toronto Canada 22. Ohio State Univ - Columbus USA 23. Kyoto Univ J apan 24. Princeton Univ USA 25. Imperial Coll London UK 25. North Carolina State Univ - Raleigh USA 27. Univ Washington - Seattle USA 27. Univ Wisconsin - Madison USA 29. Natl Univ Singapore Singapore 29. Tokyo Inst Tech J apan

Excellence in Research International Rankings

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ERC Grants Ranking

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 24 CH2 ETHZ - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 23 CH3 University of Oxford 22 UK4 University of Cambridge 21 UK5 Weizmann Institute of Science 20 ISR6 Imperial College 19 UK7 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem16 ISR8 University College London 11 UK9 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 10 ISR

University of Bristol 10 UK

Nb grants / institution (10 grants or more)

European Grants 2007-2009

The top 10 in Basic Sciences, Life Sciences and Engineering

including interdisciplinary research, excl. social sciences and humanities

EPFL Research

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Engineering projects

Contribute to motivating projects ...

-> for our students-> for our researchers-> for our region-> for Switzerland

Alinghi

Solar Impulse

Hydroptère

School ProjectsInnovate & Transfer

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Engineering Education

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Employment of EPFL Graduates

AlumniEPFL Education

* Proportion of EPFL graduates having a job compared to the global number of graduates (excl. those going for a PhD), one year after Diploma

-> Employment rate remains stable over the years despite an

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Net Employment Rate *

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Have a good conference!

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