11 Facts About EPFL

EPFL is part of the Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research.

Roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name Ecole speciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Lois Rivier, a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Academie de Lausanne.

The environment at modern day EPFL is highly international with the school attracting students and researchers from all over the world.

The possibility to study abroad for one or two semesters is offered during the 3rd year of study as EPFL maintains several long-standing student exchange programs, such as the junior year engineering and science program with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, as well as a graduate Aeronautics and Aerospace program with the ISAE in France.

In 1974, five years after EPFL was separated from University of Lausanne and became a federal institute under its current name, the construction of a new campus at Dorigny in Ecublens, a suburb south-west of Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva, began.

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The latest addition to the EPFL campus is the Rolex Learning Center completed February 2010.

Beyond its main campus, EPFL operates a network of associated campuses in Western Switzerland, often sharing these spaces with partner academic institutions and hospitals:.

EPFL was the birthplace of the Archimedean Oath, proposed by students in 1990.

Mission of EPFL Alumni is to provide graduates of the school an international network and a strong and lasting relationship upon graduation.

EPFL Alumni has built a strong international network of chapters.

EPFL is organised into eight schools, themselves formed of institutes that group research units around common themes:.