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... and in fact: www.epfl.ch (my undergraduate) "The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 14th in the world across all fields in their 2020/2021 ranking" (f
by davidgay 4y ago
... and in fact: www.epfl.ch (my undergraduate)
"The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 14th in the world across all fields in their 2020/2021 ranking" (from wikipedia)
It is indeed ~free ($1600/year) for Swiss residents at least, and gets most of its funding from the Swiss government.
I would take issue with the "overnight" bit though - the ranking above was not its ranking 30 years ago when I was there (and the EPFL took its current form in 1969). It also took a concerted effort to hire the right faculty, probably recruit the right graduate students, etc, etc.
- 908B64B197 4y agoWhat's interesting is that, from my experience, they are one of the few schools that don't recruit from the same "pool" of talent as everyone else. If you want to do engineering in French, it's either score a spot at EPFL, or go to Polytechnique in Paris (very small) or all the way to Polytechnique in Montreal (8 hours flight time?).
- davidgay 4y ago> If you want to do engineering in French, it's either score a spot at EPFL, or go to Polytechnique in Paris (very small) or all the way to Polytechnique in Montreal (8 hours flight time?). There's plenty of other engineering schools in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%A9cole#Engineering_schools_(grandes_%C3%A9coles_d'ing%C3%A9nieurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%A9cole#Engineering_...) And, ironically, one of things the EPFL did to improve its quality is teach partially in English (see https://www.epfl.ch/education/studies/en/rules-and-procedures/teaching_languages/ https://www.epfl.ch/education/studies/en/rules-and-procedure...). This makes it easier to recruit both students AND faculty.