Central, ce qui est pratique et cher. Oerlikon et Altstetten sont les compromis habituels.
WOKO gère la plupart des chambres étudiantes subventionnées et la liste est longue. Le marché privé fonctionne en allemand, et un dossier rédigé en anglais est lu plus lentement qu'un dossier en allemand — ce qui, sur un marché aussi rapide, revient à ne pas être lu.
Apply to WOKO the day you are admitted — the list runs 4 to 9 months, so it rarely helps for your first semester, but it costs nothing and it helps for your second. Everything else means the private market.
File your residence permit dossier about three months before you arrive; processing runs eight to twelve weeks and nothing downstream starts until it is in. Register at your commune within fourteen days of landing, and sort health insurance within three months. The full timeline.
Campus is at Zentrum and Irchel. Choose your neighbourhood by commute rather than by postcode — a cheaper room forty minutes away costs you two hours a day for a year.
Most UZH applicants get stuck on the same thing: an agency that wants someone resident in Switzerland to co-sign. We do that, for 3 months' rent — after we have read your file, and we do decline some.