sfb Bildungszentrum Dietikon, Höhere Fachschule für Technologie

Switzerland

Address: Lerzenstrasse 12, 8953 Dietikon, Zürich, Switzerland

Mechanical Engineering, Automation, Industrial Engineering

sfb Bildungszentrum, with multiple locations including Dietikon, is a well-known provider of higher vocational education (Höhere Fachschule – HF) in technology, offering diplomas (Dipl. Techniker/-in HF) in areas like mechanical engineering, automation, electrical engineering, and industrial engineering (Unternehmensprozesse).

Domains taught:

AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metrology, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics

Diplomas*:

Diploma

Status:

Private

Partnerships:

Strong focus on career-accompanying (part-time) education. Collaborations with a wide range of industrial companies across Switzerland.

Research:

Applied projects often directly related to students’ professional practice and industry challenges.

Famous Alumnis:

N/A

International recognition**:

Number of staff***:

200

Current students***:

1200

Foreign students***:

Cumulative former students***:

15000

Pros

Offers flexible, part-time technical diploma (HF) programs at several locations, catering to working professionals with a strong practical and industry focus.

Cons

Private school, tuition fees apply.

Best For

Working professionals across Switzerland seeking recognized part-time technical diplomas (HF) in various engineering and process optimization fields.

Most Similar Schools Locally

Also strong in metrology, quality and signal processing, Akademie St.Gallen, Höhere Fachschule für Technik makes a sensible second look at home; it runs the same diploma programmes, and is smaller, enrolling about 400 students against roughly 1,200 here.
Another national school that puts metrology, quality and signal processing at the centre is TEKO Schweizerische Fachschule, and it is larger, enrolling about 2,000 students against roughly 1,200 here, and is also a private institution.
Both schools build their programmes around metrology, quality and signal processing, and Höhere Fachschule für Technik und Management Zürich is the one to compare first within the country, since it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely diploma.
IBZ Schulen für Technik Informatik Wirtschaft overlaps with this school on metrology, quality and signal processing, so the two are easy to compare, and it is also a private institution and runs the same diploma programmes.
SIU Schweizerisches Institut für Unternehmerschulung shares the core fields of this school, namely metrology, quality and signal processing; it runs the same diploma programmes and covers logistics and optics as well.

Most Similar Schools Abroad

In Italy, Istituto Tecnico Superiore Lombardia Meccatronica teaches much the same core subjects, quality, industrial design and thermodynamics, and it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely diploma.
Salesianos Deusto in Spain is the nearest foreign match on telecommunications, robotics and automation; it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely diploma.
If this institution is on your list for quality, industrial design and project management, Istituto Tecnico Superiore Maker in Italy deserves a comparison, because it is also a private institution and runs the same diploma programmes.
On content, ENIT in France and this school are close, as both teach quality, signal processing and fluid dynamics; it covers aerospace and chemistry as well, and has almost the same size, at about 1,200 students.
Centro de Formación Somorrostro brings a Spain setting to the same core fields, robotics, automation and manufacturing, and it covers software engineering as well, and is larger, enrolling about 3,000 students against roughly 1,200 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.

Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Properties, Process Improvement, Product Development, Quality Management, Robotics, User-Centered Design

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*: 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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