HEPIA, located in Geneva, is part of HES-SO. It offers bachelor’s degrees in agronomy, architecture, landscape architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, microengineering, and IT engineering.
Address: Rue de la Prairie 4, 1202 Genève, Genève, Switzerland
Mechanical Engineering, Microengineering, IT Engineering, Agronomy
Domains taught:
- Agriculture, AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnics, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metrology, Microbiology and Genetics, 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 Geneva (HESGE). Collaborates with Genevan industries, public services, and international organizations. Focus on sustainable development.
Research:
Applied research in areas like sustainable urban systems, renewable energy, precision agriculture, robotics, microtechnology, and environmental engineering.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
250
Current students***:
1200
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
7000
Pros
Offers unique programs like agronomy and landscape architecture alongside engineering. Strong focus on sustainability. Located in an international city.
Cons
Focus on bachelor’s level for many engineering programs.
Best For
Students in Geneva interested in engineering (mechanical, micro, IT), agronomy, or building/landscape architecture with a sustainability focus.
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Most Similar Schools Locally
- Anyone who wants a second school in the same country with a similar spread of metrology, quality and nanotechnologies can consider Haute École Arc Ingénierie, and it is also a public institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's and master's.
- The comparison with HES-SO Valais-Wallis – Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie is straightforward on subjects, since both focus on metrology, quality and geotechnics, and it is smaller, enrolling about 800 students against roughly 1,200 here, and is also a public institution.
- Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg follows much the same lines as this institution, with metrology, quality and geotechnics as common ground, and it covers chemistry as well, and is slightly smaller, at about 1,000 students against roughly 1,200 here.
- Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud takes a similar route through metrology, quality and geotechnics, and it teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's and master's, and is larger, enrolling about 2,000 students against roughly 1,200 here.
- In terms of fields, Hochschule Luzern, Departement Technik & Architektur is the nearest neighbour, with metrology, quality and geotechnics again at the core; it is larger, enrolling about 2,500 students against roughly 1,200 here, and is also a public institution.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Hochschule Biberach (Germany) works on the same fields as this school, chiefly quality, geotechnics and nanotechnologies; it covers food science and transportations as well, and is larger, enrolling about 2,500 students against roughly 1,200 here.
- Hochschule Neubrandenburg in Germany shares the agriculture, geotechnics and microbiology and genetics orientation of this school, and it runs the same bachelor's and master's programmes and covers logistics and food science as well.
- State University of Applied Sciences in Racibórz (Poland) works on the same fields as this school, chiefly optics, signal processing and fluid dynamics; it covers software engineering as well, and is slightly larger, at about 1,500 students against roughly 1,200 here.
- The closest overseas parallel on nanotechnologies, optics and signal processing is École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, located in France; it covers aerospace and bioinformatics as well, and is larger, enrolling about 2,000 students against roughly 1,200 here.
- State University of Applied Sciences in Krosno in Poland is the nearest foreign match on quality, geotechnics and optics; it teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's and master's, and covers aerospace and food science as well.
*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.
- Agriculture, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Robotics, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Practices, Sustainable Product Design
*: 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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