Education

Students at PLUS develop the understanding, sensitivity, and skills necessary to design strategic spatial responses to rapid economic, environmental, political and technological changes. As a result of the diverse fields that are drawn upon in landscape and environmental planning, our curriculum provides students with a wide knowledge base addressing economic, physical, ecological, governance, and aesthetic issues. 

The lectures at PLUS are organized around three main fields of knowledge: Regional planning principles, spatial economy, and landscape aesthetics. The bachelor curriculum introduces students to the regional planning principles, and microeconomics. While sustainability is addressed in a specific course in the master program, the concept provides an underlying framework throughout the curriculum. Graduate students can then deepen their knowledge in these fields while selecting specific courses, such as environmental planning, land management, quantitative methods in planning or landscape planning and visualization. With this program, we hope to inspire our students to have the same enthusiasm we feel for addressing the planning needs of a sustainable world.

The Chair is built on a distinguished faculty and excellent students. Many of the faculty are engaged in current professional and civic work in addition to pioneering research and publications. A number of part-time faculty who are active full-time professionals also contribute to the course offerings.

BSc Niveau

The link leads to our current courses at BSc level.

MSc Niveau

The link leads to our current courses at MSc level.

DEGREES

Bachelor and Master of Science ETH in Environmental Engineering
Bachelor and Master of Science ETH in Geomatics Engineering and Planning
Master of Science ETH in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems