The FHNW School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics, located in Muttenz, provides education in architecture, civil engineering, construction management, and geomatics engineering.
Address: Hofackerstrasse 30, 4132 Muttenz, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics Engineering
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Civil Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnics, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metrology, Optics, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics
Diplomas*:
- Bachelor, Master
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Part of FHNW. Close ties with the construction industry, planning offices, and public authorities for applied research, projects, and internships.
Research:
Research in areas like digital construction (BIM), sustainable building, urban development, geoinformation technologies, and infrastructure management.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
300
Current students***:
1500
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
8000
Pros
Offers specialized programs for the construction and geospatial sectors, with an emphasis on digital technologies and sustainability.
Cons
Focus on building and geospatial disciplines.
Best For
Students interested in architecture, civil engineering, construction management, or geomatics, with a focus on modern practices and technologies.
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Most Similar Schools Locally
- Hochschule Luzern, Departement Technik & Architektur takes a similar route through metrology, quality and geotechnics, and it is also a public institution and runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes.
- SUPSI Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design follows much the same lines as this institution, with metrology, quality and geotechnics as common ground, and it runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes and covers nanotechnologies and chemistry as well.
- Berner Fachhochschule, Departement Architektur, Holz und Bau offers a comparable education in quality, geotechnics and industrial design: it is also a public institution and runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes.
- In terms of fields, Haute Ecole du Paysage, d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture de Genève is the nearest neighbour, with metrology, quality and geotechnics again at the core; it covers agriculture and nanotechnologies as well, and is slightly smaller, at about 1,200 students against roughly 1,500 here.
- Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg overlaps with this institution on metrology, quality and geotechnics, so the two are easy to compare, and it covers nanotechnologies and bioengineering as well, and is smaller, enrolling about 1,000 students against roughly 1,500 here.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (Germany) works on the same fields as this school, chiefly geotechnics, optics and signal processing; it is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 1,500 here, and is also a public institution.
- HafenCity Universität Hamburg, based in Germany, is built around quality, geotechnics and optics much like this school, and it is also a public institution and also offers doctoral programmes.
- The closest overseas parallel on quality, geotechnics and optics is Higher School of Technology in Katowice, located in Poland; it is slightly larger, at about 2,000 students against roughly 1,500 here, and is private, whereas this school is public.
- State University of Applied Sciences in Racibórz, based in Poland, is built around optics, signal processing and fluid dynamics much like this school, and it covers automation and electrical and electronics as well, and has almost the same size, at about 1,500 students.
- Students considering a move abroad can look at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in France, where optics, signal processing and fluid dynamics also form the core, and it covers aerospace and bioinformatics as well, and is slightly larger, at about 2,000 students against roughly 1,500 here.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Architecture, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Practices
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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