HEIG-VD, located in Yverdon-les-Bains, is part of HES-SO and is one of the largest engineering schools in French-speaking Switzerland. It offers a wide array of engineering degrees.
Address: Route de Cheseaux 1, 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud, Switzerland
Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnics, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metrology, Nanotechnologies, Optics, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics
Diplomas*:
- Bachelor, Master
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Part of HES-SO. Strong collaborations with Vaud’s industrial and technological ecosystem. Numerous applied research projects with companies.
Research:
Applied research in areas like embedded systems, data science, industrial automation, sustainable energy, geomatics, and media engineering.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
450
Current students***:
2000
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
12000
Pros
Offers a comprehensive range of practice-oriented engineering programs with a strong applied research component and industry connections.
Cons
Focus on applied sciences.
Best For
Students in the Vaud canton seeking a wide choice of practical engineering degrees with strong applied research and industry links.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- FHNW Hochschule für Technik offers a comparable education in metrology, quality and nanotechnologies: it is also a public institution and runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes.
- Another national school that puts metrology, quality and geotechnics at the centre is Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg, and it is smaller, enrolling about 1,000 students against roughly 2,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- In terms of fields, HES-SO Valais-Wallis – Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie is the nearest neighbour, with metrology, quality and geotechnics again at the core; it covers chemistry and ecology and sustainability as well, and is smaller, enrolling about 800 students against roughly 2,000 here.
- Haute Ecole du Paysage, d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture de Genève sits close to this school on metrology, quality and geotechnics; it is smaller, enrolling about 1,200 students against roughly 2,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- Where this institution leans on metrology, quality and nanotechnologies, Berner Fachhochschule, Departement Technik und Informatik does the same, and it is also a public institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's and master's.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- In France, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay teaches much the same core subjects, nanotechnologies, optics and signal processing, and it has almost the same size, at about 2,000 students, and is also a public institution.
- If this institution is on your list for geotechnics, optics and signal processing, Bronisław Markiewicz State Higher School of Technology and Economics in Jarosław in Poland deserves a comparison, because it has almost the same size, at about 2,000 students, and is also a public institution.
- The closest overseas parallel on quality, geotechnics and optics is State University of Applied Sciences in Krosno, located in Poland; it is also a public institution and runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes.
- Technische Hochschule Brandenburg offers an international parallel to this school, with metrology, quality and optics as common ground; it is also a public institution and runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes.
- The closest overseas parallel on metrology, quality and nanotechnologies is Technische Hochschule Ulm, located in Germany; it covers transportations and chemistry as well, and is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 2,000 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.
- Engineering, Robotics, Software, Software Development Kit (SDK), Sustainable Development
*: 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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