General Information

Below are listed some important informations about your studies at EPFL. All can be found on the website of EPFL. The rules are the ones of EPFL. The ones listed below might be subject to modifications. They are up-to-date in April 2024.

Requirements for passing the years

To pass the Bachelor’s cycle, a student must:

• have acquired all the required credits within eight semesters of the admission to the Bachelor’s cycle, i.e. 2nd year (conditional admission incl.).

Bachelor 2nd year: courses are together in a block (= it's a weighted average) 

• 3rd year courses cannot be followed during the 2nd year. 
• Failed courses must be retaken the year after (it is not allowed to retake them later).
• If you don't attend an exam: you receive NA. A block cannot be passed if one or more subjects in that block are graded NA. These subjects must be repeated to replace the NA by an actual grade. This is also the case for Topology and Discrete optimization.

Bachelor 3rd year: courses are together in a group

• each course should be validated separately.
• Failed course may only be repeated once, the grade of the second attempt replace the frist one. You can choose not to repeat the course and take another one. In that case, the failed course appears in your transcript of records and counts in the average. 
• If you don't attend an exam: you receive NA. NAs have no particular bearing on the passing of groups (not valid in 2nd year!), provided that you can either repeat the subject or take another subject to acquire the required credits.
• When, after a semester, you reached 44 ECTS: you will no longer be able to take courses. You may end with more than 44 ECTS.
• Exces of credits in the Bachelor cannot be transfered to the master. 

Master: courses are together in a group (ing math, math) and/or block (CSE, statistics). For the passing of courses in a group see the 3rd year of Bachelor above. For the passing of couses in a block, see 2nd year of Bachelor above. 

To pass a 60-credit Master’s cycle, a student must have acquired all the required credits within four semesters of the admission to the Master’s cycle. To pass a 90-credit Master’s cycle, a student must have acquired all the required credits within six semesters of the admission to the Master’s cycle. This includes the internship and semester projects!