Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne

Basic information

  • Identifiers
    • DEQARINST0197
    • CH0011
    • ROR: https://ror.org/02s376052
    • Erasmus: CH LAUSANN06

      • Erasmus Institution Code

      Identifier assigned by the European Commission to higher education institutions participating in the Erasmus+ programme - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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    • SCHAC: epfl.ch

      • SCHema for Academia

      Internet domain (DNS)-based identifier of institutions, used in several European initiatives for data exchange in the education and research sector, e.g. Emrex - data acquired using the European University Foundation (EUF) HEI API

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    • EU-PIC: 999973971

      • Participant Identification Code (PIC)

      A PIC is assigned to legal entities participating in EU-funded programmes - data acquired using the European University Foundation (EUF) HEI API

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    • EU-VAT: CHE116075613TVA

      • EU VAT number

      Identifier of economic operators for value-added tax (VAT) within the EU system, assigned by their national authority - data acquired using the EU participant register API

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    • WHED: IAU-004210

      • IAU World Higher Education Database (WHED)

      Identifier used in the world-wide WHED database of higher education institutions, managed by the International Association of Universities (IAU) - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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  • Provider type
    higher education institution
  • Legal seat(s)
    Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Further location(s)
    Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
    Fribourg, Switzerland
    Geneva, Switzerland
    Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Sion, Switzerland
  • Website
    https://www.epfl.ch
  • Founding year
    1969
  • QF-EHEA levels
    third cycle, second cycle, first cycle
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/institution/197

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Programme accreditation
    voluntary, except for medical and health professions according to public health regulations
  • Institutional accreditation
    Institutional accreditation according to Swiss law, with a decision by the Swiss Accreditation Council, is mandatory for all public higher education institutions of the tertiary sector and for private higher education institutions using a protected denomination (“University”, “University of Applied Sciences”, “ University of Teacher Education“). Successful accreditation has no legal impact beyond the right to use one of the protected denominations but is a testimony to a quality assurance systems covering all processes and suited to support the higher education institution to achieve its goals.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Switzerland

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

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Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Institutional accreditation

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme d'ingénieur de l'école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Bioingénierie et biotechnologie (ingénieur en bioingénierie et biotechnologie) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme d'ingénieur de l'école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Management des technologies et entreprenariat (ingénieur en management des technologies et entreprenariat) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme d'ingénieur de l'école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Management des technologies et entreprenariat (ingénieur en management des technologies et entreprenariat) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme de master de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Data science (ingénieur en data science) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme de master de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Humanités digitales (ingénieur en humanités digitales) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme de master de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Ingénierie des Sciences du vivant (ingénieur en ingénierie des sciences du vivant) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme de master de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Robotique (ingénieur en robotique) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Diplôme de master de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne portant mention de la spécialité Science et Technologie de l’énergie (ingénieur en science et technologie de l’énergie) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in communication systems (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in communication systems (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in communication systems (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master degree in Computational science and engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master degree in Computational science and engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master degree in Computational science and engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in Energy management and sustainability (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in Energy management and sustainability (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in environment (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in environment (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master Degree in environment (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering Master degree in Financial engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.