ETH Zurich is an
engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the
city of Zürich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution EPFL, it is an
integral part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain)
that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic
Affairs, Education and Research.
ETH Zurich is consistently ranked among the top universities
in the world. It is currently ranked as 5th best university in the world in
engineering, science and technology, just behind the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Stanford University, Cambridge University and National University
of Singapore in the QS World University Rankings.
Twenty-one Nobel Prizes have been awarded to students or
professors of the Institute in the past, the most famous of whom was Albert
Einstein with the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Niels Bohr who was
awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, both for work dealing with quantum
physics. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International
Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and a member of the CESAER network.
The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government in
1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, serve as a
national center of excellence in science and technology and provide a hub for
interaction between the scientific community and industry.
