Some key figures
52 years
over 16’000
over 120
over 370
laboratoires focused on disciplines ranging from mathematics to life science to architecture and engineering
over 350
5%
N° 14
University in the world, according to QS ranking, alongside with Columbia and Yale Universities
over 4’000
scholarly publications in 2020, making a prolific average of one publication per professor per month
161
25
start-ups created in 2020 (nearly two per month) on a total number of almost 300 since 2000
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over 1.6 billion CHF
over 1 billion CHF
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