Accommodation for ETH Zürich students

Due campus, e quello in cui studiate cambia dove conviene abitare. Hönggerberg è in cima alla collina, servito da un bus dedicato.

Room near campus
CHF 800–1400Plus CHF 130–280 charges
Subsidised housing
4–9 monthsWOKO waiting list
Proof of funds
CHF 21'000Per year, non-EU, canton of Zurich
Nearest airport
Zurich (ZRH)For your arrival

Where ETH Zürich students actually live

WOKO gestisce la maggior parte delle camere sovvenzionate e la lista è lunga. Il mercato privato funziona in tedesco, e un dossier in inglese viene letto più lentamente di uno in tedesco — che su un mercato così rapido equivale a non essere letto.

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.

The deadlines that matter

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 Hönggerberg. Choose your neighbourhood by commute rather than by postcode — a cheaper room forty minutes away costs you two hours a day for a year.

If the agency wants a guarantor

Most ETH Zürich 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.

Ask us about co-signing