EDME Course information
Course Registration
Please register directly online on IS-Academia for the chosen course at the EPFL.
Important: Even though you do not need to complete a course registration form for internal courses anymore and make it sign by your thesis director and the program’s director for approval, it is important that you keep your thesis director informed about the courses you are attending.
If you wish to sign off a course that you have registered for on IS-Academia, please contact the program’s administrator who is going to take out the course of your course list.
Course enrolement guide (IS-Academia)
IS-Academia Guidelines
External Courses
As for courses outside the EPFL doctoral school, you have to submit your request via Service Now. The program will then examine your request and fix the number of credits granted. The course has to be approved by the program BEFORE it takes place. Otherwise you risk that the program won’t accept the credits!
External courses are only accepted if they are equivalent to the EPFL master level or doctoral course level!
Credits will only be accepted with an official exam result (oral exam, written exam, final project) and the belonging certification.
Please also refer to the EDME rules regarding external credits.
The request for equivalence is available in Service Now under the following link:
https://support.epfl.ch/
Requests → Education → Doctoral candidate → Equivalence EDOC for credits
Credits cannot be obtained for conferences, seminars, symposiums, workshops, internships, or similar activities.
Credits will be awarded only after receipt of an official transcript confirming that:
- an exam was passed (a certificate of participation is not sufficient), and
- the exact number of proposed ECTS credits is clearly stated.