Life on campus (active)
The ZHAW is centrally located, modern and unites five health professions under one roof.
Student city Winterthur
StudiPortal and Social Media
Centrally situated campus next to historic centre
The campus of the School of Health Professions offers both a central location next to the historic centre just a few minutes' walk from the main train station, as well as a modern infrastructure of the buildings at the Technikumstrasse 71 in Winterthur. Students have access to workstations and WLAN hotspots throughout the campus, and the canteens offer a varied and inexpensive catering.
Filmclip from the International Winter School 2017
CampusTV (in German)
Virtual Campustour (in German)
The ZHAW Students' Association (VSZHAW) is a lobby group for supporting students. It performs political tasks and is dedicated to student life. The VSZHAW organises events for students such as the end of term parties, the "Studitreff" meeting place and campaign days. "Brainstorm Magazin" is the students' official means of communication, a magazine by students for students.
The sports activities at the ZHAW are coordinated by the Academic Sports Association Zurich ASVZ. As members of ASVZ, students profit from a wide-ranging sports programme with numerous team and individual sports at the facilities in Winterthur, Zurich and Wädenswil. For those interested in music, the alpha-cappella welcomes any student who wishes to sing in a choir at the ZHAW.
VSZHAW
ASVZ Winterthur
alpha-capella
The ZHAW library in Winterthur was completed in 2014 and is now the largest library at a university of applied sciences in German-speaking Switzerland. The library is housed in the former Sulzer industrial building with its ten metre high factory hall and the old crane tracks still visible. Covering a floor space of over 6,000 square metres, it has become the new common home of the former five specialist libraries and shelves media items from the fields of architecture, health, linguistics, technology and economics. The university library is an independent building with a cafeteria, libraries and workplaces as well as a generous study environment on the top floor.
University library Winterthur
Winterthur with its approximately 100,000 inhabitants is the sixth largest city in Switzerland. The many young people, some from the ZHAW, make the city a vibrant place at all times of the day. Winterthur features numerous clubs, restaurants, bars, theatres, museums and cinemas. It also regularly hosts multi-day live music events such as the Albanifest, an African music festival in spring, and the famous Winterthur Open Air Festival - and the campus of the School of Health Professions is just a stone's throw away.
Website of the city of Winterthur
Student housing in Winterthur: www.swowi.ch
Student housing cooperative WOKO (rent rooms in Zurich, Winterthur and Wädenswil)
Health Professions' StudiPortal and Social Media
The StudiPortal is a Web portal that provides helpful information for students to organise their daily life. The idea behind the StudiPortal is simple: "Invest more time in studying and less time on administrative tasks!"
Students find all sorts of helpful information about the study programmes on the School of Health Professions' Facebook profile and its own YouTube channel. A team of students regularly blogs on Facebook and keeps you up to date about their current every day student life with their posts.
StudiPortal of the School of Health Professions
Facebook ZHAW School of Health Professions
Youtube ZHAW School of Health Professions
LinkedIn ZHAW School of Health Professions
Brochure International Relations
We offer a wide range of courses for international students. Learn more about our international activities in our brochure.
BSc/MSc degree programme administration office
ZHAW School of Health Professions
Technikumstrasse 71
studium.gesundheit@zhaw.ch
Opening hours and telephone service:
Monday-Friday 8.00-12.30
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