The Swiss school system
In Switzerland, the copies are noted in 6 (and not 20!). It takes 4 to validate the subject at the university. You have at least 1 if you you write the exam, 0 otherwise.
maturity
In Switzerland, there is no tray. But they spend their maturity (18 years). Swiss Maturity
Review Expiration Switzerland is a graduate from high school who obtained after 13 years of study and opens the doors of all universities. They have science subjects, languages and options, like the tray.
The big difference is that this review is not nationnal. There has cantonal and federal (roughly, each school makes its own or when for private colleges, they are something more comprehensive).
The rates are not equivalent in relation to home school ...
The Bachelor
With their Matu, the Swiss can get what they want in universities, for example at EPFL for a bachelor. (Provided they have completed their military service lasting several months ... so basically for the guys, they have one year from completing their maturation and entry to university). Upon entry, the student's chosen pathway.
at EPFL is very broad: physical, mathematical, computer, biology, social sciences, architecture, materials, mechanics etc..
For the French, you need a tank (only scientific?) With honors (14/20) to enter at the EPFL. As for Switzerland, the choice of stream is in the first weeks of courses with the opportunity to change his mind in the first two weeks. (A friend wanted to do physics, and materials and finally chose architecture ...).
The Bachelor is done in 3 years. There are a lot of failure (+ 50% the first year) and there are very few people who manage to do bachelor in 3 years.
An example a French masters with me came at EPFL after a French tank. He completed his first year of bachelor in mechanical engineering. He missed and redone. It moved into second year. He missed his second year. He therefore repeated but underwent a second failure. The rule here is simple: it is forbidden to miss twice in the same year => it has been 4 years for nothing. He left for Geneva to unil to a bachelor degree in computer and came back this year.
For people in 3rd year of Bachelor, the rule is simple ... leaving for his year abroad (in Sweden at KTH for example) to spend a year without too much work cool (true).
The Master
Having finally obtained the Bachelor of précieu EPFL or elsewhere, you can become master. The
good plan is to come from another university with good grades to enter the program at the EPFL, a highly renowned master.
In the master, I do not know if there are 50% of Swiss. There are a lot of French, 15% I think, and many people in other countries: bulgaria, romania, china, pakistan, india, vietnam, canada, usa, south america ...
Masters are two years (120 credits) except the master computer can be done in 90 credits (one and a half) if it is not without specialization and minor.
For a master, you must choose courses from a list of required courses, other courses from a list of option (~ 70 courses available for computers) and possibly a course of specialization. There is a semester project to produce (12 credits) and a master project (equivalent to Project Graduation) worth 30 credits. We must also make a SHS project that lasts one year and is worth 6 credits. I shall return later to these projects.
For master computer must 15 ECTS credits in required courses.
27 credits must be in options, and possibly 30 credits in a specialization or a minor in management and entrepreneurship.
(Master's degree in communications network, you need 120 credits, with almost the same course in computer science, but we must make a special ogligatoirement or take the minor ...)
Basically, to make a master You program the card. It is not easy, because you must comply with a multitude of rules, pay attention to prerequisites and check carefully that no material overlap.
The PHD
A PHD is a PhD ... must be very good at EPFL to spend a doctorate. I do not know a lot of things over there because I'm not interested at all. I know that the doc must do 30 credits of courses during their training usually lasts 3 or 4 years and he is not obliged to have a real thesis ... In short, it's very vague to me.
The choice of courses at EPFL
Here is the list of courses for the master INS (IT) http://ic.epfl.ch/page57856.html
Group 1 is compulsory courses (15 credits to be taken)
Group 2 is the options of specialization
ago but I do not care.
In Switzerland, the copies are noted in 6 (and not 20!). It takes 4 to validate the subject at the university. You have at least 1 if you you write the exam, 0 otherwise.
maturity
In Switzerland, there is no tray. But they spend their maturity (18 years). Swiss Maturity
Review Expiration Switzerland is a graduate from high school who obtained after 13 years of study and opens the doors of all universities. They have science subjects, languages and options, like the tray.
The big difference is that this review is not nationnal. There has cantonal and federal (roughly, each school makes its own or when for private colleges, they are something more comprehensive).
The rates are not equivalent in relation to home school ...
The Bachelor
With their Matu, the Swiss can get what they want in universities, for example at EPFL for a bachelor. (Provided they have completed their military service lasting several months ... so basically for the guys, they have one year from completing their maturation and entry to university). Upon entry, the student's chosen pathway.
at EPFL is very broad: physical, mathematical, computer, biology, social sciences, architecture, materials, mechanics etc..
For the French, you need a tank (only scientific?) With honors (14/20) to enter at the EPFL. As for Switzerland, the choice of stream is in the first weeks of courses with the opportunity to change his mind in the first two weeks. (A friend wanted to do physics, and materials and finally chose architecture ...).
The Bachelor is done in 3 years. There are a lot of failure (+ 50% the first year) and there are very few people who manage to do bachelor in 3 years.
An example a French masters with me came at EPFL after a French tank. He completed his first year of bachelor in mechanical engineering. He missed and redone. It moved into second year. He missed his second year. He therefore repeated but underwent a second failure. The rule here is simple: it is forbidden to miss twice in the same year => it has been 4 years for nothing. He left for Geneva to unil to a bachelor degree in computer and came back this year.
For people in 3rd year of Bachelor, the rule is simple ... leaving for his year abroad (in Sweden at KTH for example) to spend a year without too much work cool (true).
The Master
Having finally obtained the Bachelor of précieu EPFL or elsewhere, you can become master. The
good plan is to come from another university with good grades to enter the program at the EPFL, a highly renowned master.
In the master, I do not know if there are 50% of Swiss. There are a lot of French, 15% I think, and many people in other countries: bulgaria, romania, china, pakistan, india, vietnam, canada, usa, south america ...
Masters are two years (120 credits) except the master computer can be done in 90 credits (one and a half) if it is not without specialization and minor.
For a master, you must choose courses from a list of required courses, other courses from a list of option (~ 70 courses available for computers) and possibly a course of specialization. There is a semester project to produce (12 credits) and a master project (equivalent to Project Graduation) worth 30 credits. We must also make a SHS project that lasts one year and is worth 6 credits. I shall return later to these projects.
For master computer must 15 ECTS credits in required courses.
27 credits must be in options, and possibly 30 credits in a specialization or a minor in management and entrepreneurship.
(Master's degree in communications network, you need 120 credits, with almost the same course in computer science, but we must make a special ogligatoirement or take the minor ...)
Basically, to make a master You program the card. It is not easy, because you must comply with a multitude of rules, pay attention to prerequisites and check carefully that no material overlap.
The PHD
A PHD is a PhD ... must be very good at EPFL to spend a doctorate. I do not know a lot of things over there because I'm not interested at all. I know that the doc must do 30 credits of courses during their training usually lasts 3 or 4 years and he is not obliged to have a real thesis ... In short, it's very vague to me.
The choice of courses at EPFL
Here is the list of courses for the master INS (IT) http://ic.epfl.ch/page57856.html
Group 1 is compulsory courses (15 credits to be taken)
Group 2 is the options of specialization
ago but I do not care.
Earlier this year, we have two weeks to choose the courses, go to the lecture halls and see the progress. But every good teacher begins its course, so it's better now make his choice quickly. For October 3, you must be registered online courses.
I am doing my Masters in two semesters. The course is mandatory wholesale prices that nobody wants to take is complicated courses with many people in the lecture halls and many work at home (homework).
I gotta do during these two semesters the SHS project. The project SHS (human and social sciences) is an area where you do something that has nothing to do with your section master.
I chose to do in management and entrepreneurship. For groups of 4 to 6 during the two semesters, we will have to audit a company and make a report and a presentation on that.
I need to do a semester project (18 hours per week for one semester for 12 credits). I decided to do so during the second half. This project focuses on a subject and is performed in a laboratory school. It is possible to choose a topic among those suggested or propose their own topic. Sample topics
made by friends last year:
- Renderer 3D terrain
- Bluetooth Remote Control with LCD color display of the playlist to control the media player on your computer.
I propose my own thinking, but I'm not there yet, we'll talk later.
I do 15 credits from compulsory courses ... I took over:
Distributed Algorithms, Distributed Information Systems and Information Theory and codes, which makes me 15 credits.
Why all courses required immediately? Because information theory and codes I've already done a bit ... although there is far more driven, and because it allows me to make no more required courses in the second half ...
My project then is simple: make things interesting.
I want to do business and management. So I will take up courses in these areas. Except that I am limited to 12 credits max in non-technical areas ...
ago during a business plan on 3 credits which is not to be considered art.
So I can take 15 credits in management & business.
It remains for me to take 12 credits in the technical options.
I chose to take advanced TCP / IP for 5 credits (Because I have very good knowledge in network).
I took cryptography to 7 credits, just out of obligation (because the course was ESISAR crypto). I also took a course this semester in e-business for 4 credits. I therefore
15 ECTS (compulsory) + 12 ECTS (options) + 3 (SHS project) + 4 (off course) = 34 credits.
What makes for the next semester I can take only current business plan, and 2 extra-curricular courses in management & business. I also follow the SHS project and semester project. That will give me 26 credits (if all goes well and I passed all my classes for semester 1!).
short, if all goes well, I'll have a quiet second half more and more interesting ...
My schedule for the first half
Operation courses
A course lasts 2 hours. In fact it is two times 45 minutes with 15 minute break between the two parties.
In general courses are composed of a part called "reading", ie a lecture and exercise sessions.
Prices are in the form of slides available on the Internet and are provided by the teacher.
For years, the teacher is usually there. A sheet with exercises is distributed and there are TA (teacher assistant) that pass between the rows when there are questions.
solutions are available the following week on the Internet.
Comments various bulk
- The classes are all in English, some teachers accepted for examinations that copies are written in French or English.
- The level of course is higher than in France. I think there are several reasons for this. The first is that people are highly specialized in their field. So teachers will quickly deep into details. Then I think they expect many staff work more important than where I come from, especially since nothing encourages us to work in groups. Personally, I work regularly with a group of students (French general) who also used to do group work. This allows us to learn much more quickly and finish our homework in time. (1 per week per subject, except for certain subjects where one does not need to go).
- At EPFL there are about 20% of girls. They are concentrated in social sectors, bio (where they are the majority!) And architecture.
- I do not think this is a good system for exercise sessions, the TA is often wrong! (Ie PhD students or former students who successfully completed the well in previous years).
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