Guide to the CBB study plan
To help you choose your courses or get some tips about how to structure your study plan, this page contains summaries and tips for courses directly from CBB students. All contributions are welcome! Please contact the CCBB if you would like to help improve this page.
Disclaimer: this is not official information but opinions gathered from current and former students. For official information please see the CBB website. |
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Zürich, Basel? ETH, UZH, UBas?
As a CBB student, you can take courses at ETH, University of Zurich (UZH) and University of Basel (UBas). To make things even more interesting, our master is part of the only ETH department that is located in Basel, the D-BSSE, together with Biotechnology. So you can take ETH courses in Zürich and/or in Basel.
You can theoretically do the program all in Zürich or all in Basel, but you will, most likely, need to do some commuting at some point. It really depends on your interests and how much you mind commuting. You can check out this page for more information about the two locations.
You are automatically registered at ETH and can sign up for courses on myStudies. For UZH and UBas courses, you will have to take a few extra steps but it is completely manageable.
For signing into UZH courses, you need to 'enroll' as a mobility student. This is done before the start of the semester through the Applications Portal. You need to apply as a Joint Degree In-Mobility. You'll need to sign this form (in the middle where they ask you if you've been excluded just write '-') and put a photo of an ID (passport/EU ID card should work I guess) and of yourselves. After that you'll receive a response through the Application Portal with the decision and get a new Student Card (yes!! you will get two of them!!!)
Anyone who can give a short summary of how to sign up for courses at UZH and/or UBas is highly encouraged to contribute!
Some ETH courses are recorded and you can watch them online afterwards.
Some of the courses from the D-BSSE in Basel are streamed to a room in Zurich (HG D 16.2) where you can watch them live and you can ask your questions in real time with a microphone.
More information can be found using the following links
- Core courses
- Advanced courses
- Additional requirements
- Examples of study plan
- Master thesis