FAQ

General help during your studies

We would like to refer you to the website of the Financial Aid Office of the ETH. They also offer consultations.

For a conversation about a difficult study situation you are very welcome to contact the studies administration of D-BIOL ( // Tel. +41 44 632 59 42, Mon/Wed/Thu, 08:30-11:00 and 13:30-16:00), or if you are in the Master degree programme possibly also the study advisor of your major.

If you are in a difficult situation, be it because of your studies or for other reasons, there are further contact points for counseling - also in emergency cases. You can find help here.

If you have general questions about other degree programmes, it is best to directly contact the studies administration office that is responsible for the respective degree programme. General counselling and coaching sessions are also offered by the Counselling & Coaching team of the ETH.

If you have already decided on changing your degree programme, you can find more information on the procedure here, including the contact details of the Registrar's Office.

Questions about myStudies

General information on course registrations is available in the Help for "myStudies".

For the exam registration please refer to the email that is sent to you by the Examinations Office around the 2. or 3. week of the semester. More information is available in the Help for "myStudies" and on the website of the Examinations Office.

Information on the different types of examinations (session examinations, end-of-semester examinations, semester performances) is available here.

For questions about the semester enrollment, please contact the registrar's office. More information is available here.

The Help for "myStudies" has a lot of information in this respect.

Students in the BSc Biology degree programme

The diploma request can be made in myStudies, once you have reached the necessary amount of credit points. Information on the procedure is available in the help for "myStudies".

The studies administration usually processes diploma requests about once a month. Around the beginning of the semester there can be some delays. If you request your diploma in August/September or January/February, we would like to ask you to enroll in an additional Bachelor semester. If you are starting your Masters' degree at the ETH after that, please also enroll in the Master. The semester fees only need to be paid once if you are enrolled in both the Bachelor and the Master in Biology at the same time.

Further information, as well as a leaflet concerning the switch from Bachelor to Master degree programme at the ETH is available here (only in German).

Information concerning the switch from Bachelor to Master degree programme at the ETH is available here (only in German, includes a leaflet). .

This website also contains a leaflet that describes different cases, e.g. if you would like to do a non-consecutive Master's degree at the ETH. In the case of students in the BSc Biology, the consecutive Master's degree programme is the MSc Biology.

Students in the MSc Biology degree programme

We would like to suggest that you start looking for a suitable lab space up to 3 months in advance of the desired starting date for the research project. This is especially the case, if you would like to start a research project at the beginning of a semester.

The Learning Agreement can be modified multple times during the Master's degree, and then should be electronically handed again. Your study advisor can then confirm it again, if it is suitable.

Some information on how to modify and work with the Learning Agreement is available in the help for "myStudies" - in the section "Displaying the Learning Agreement", as well as the subnavigation for this section.