EPFL Reviews

Pros

Salary is good and beautiful lake and city.

Cons

High cost of living in Lausanne, and hard to find a cheap place to rent.

Pros

Standard academic position. Eventually, it depends on your advisor.

Cons

Life in Switzerland is rather expensive.

Pros

Top quality research in engineering, great work life balance.

Cons

Learning the local language is necessary if you want to have a good social life.

Pros

Great city, great university, great pay.

Cons

The Environmental department is not as good as those at top US universities.

Advice to Management

Do not give lifelong positions to non-faculty.

Pros

The computer science department is on the rise, they have good labs already and are competitive in hiring. You can live well in Lausanne on the salary

Cons

The city itself is not very exciting, it can get boring sometimes. The culture is not quite like in the US, labs collaborate less.

Advice to Management

Encourage more collaboration between labs. Organize or encourage social events, to at least get the students to know each other across labs.

Pros

Good research environment, nice campus

Cons

Non english speaking outside university

Pros

Excellent salary. Pretty well-organized. Flexibility of the working hours. Excellent weather both in summer and winter. An excellent language center to improve English, French, German and Italian. A good source for complementary career courses and workshops.

Cons

Some courses were taught in French, might not cover all the international students or staff.

Pros

International environment, collaborative and so friendly

Cons

You don't get working permis by doing postdoc