Courses

MSc Biotechnology courses are divided into core courses, advanced courses, and elective courses.

Students must acquire a total of 22 ECTS in the core course category.

Core courses are composed of 6 ECTS from mandatory core course lectures and 16 ECTS from mandatory core course lab courses.
Failing a mandatory core course twice leads to the exclusion from the MSc programme in Biotechnology.
The core course list in the ETH course catalogue is a closed list. No other courses can be added to this category.

Students must acquire 36 ECTS within the advanced courses & electives.

Advanced Courses

Students must acquire at least 22 ECTS in the advanced course category.
The advanced course list in the ETH course catalogue is a closed list. No other courses can be added to this category.

Elective Courses

Students need to acquire at least 10 ECTS in the electives category.
Students may complete courses from ETH as well as the University of Basel as elective courses. The electives list in the ETH course catalogue is an open list providing a selection of eligible courses. Students are expected to look for relevant courses in the ETH and University of Basel course catalogue and ask their mentor for approval.
Courses from the advanced course category may also be taken as electives.
Students are recommended to browse the external page University of Basel course catalogue for courses within the relevant master's degree programmes, e.g., Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Drug Sciences, Epidemiology, Infection Biology, Molecular Biology, Nanosciences, Physics of Life.

Students must acquire 2 ECTS in the Science in Perspective (SiP) category.

Regulations regarding Science in Perspective (SiP) courses are stipulated by the offering department D-GESS.

The ETH course catalogue lists the science in perspective course units under respective category - no other courses can be added to this category.
Only exception: BSSE students may complete a language course at the University of Basel Language Center (Sprachenzentrum) as SiP course, taking into account the restrictions regarding language course levels.

Students must register for courses offered by the University of Basel directly with the University of Basel.

BSSE students are allowed to attend courses at the University of Basel and earn credit points free of charge.

Course registration deadlines and modalities are stipulated by the University of Basel and might differ from ETH registration deadlines. Make sure to check the registration procedure and deadlines in time!

Credit transfer: After completion of the course, the transcript of records from the University of Basel must be submitted to the D-BSSE Student Administration to transfer the credits and results to your myStudies account at ETH Zürich. Note that the e-mail with the course result is not sufficient!

The registration procedure and further steps are detailed on the University of Basel website.