This document is maintained by your Exchange Study Advisor, Prof. Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate
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For inquiries about regulations and procedures (e.g., submission deadlines, language requirements, the possibility of taking master’s-level courses at the host university, the number of credits required to complete your Bachelor’s degree, etc.)—in other words, questions unrelated to course contents—please note the following:
- The EPFL website usually addresses all these kinds of problems very well. Make sure you search within the EPFL website before proceeding with the next option. This presentation for outgoing students includes links to the relevant EPFL pages.
- Otherwise, please do not ask me (I won’t be able to help you), but direct your questions to
- [email protected] for INCOMING students
- [email protected] for OUTGOING students
- Validation of the Learning Agreement (LA)
- OUTGOING students
- When you submit your first LA or update it later, always send me the following documents:
- The pdf of the official EPFL LA form
- A table describing how the courses you have chosen map into the mandatory SGM courses (the list is here) and containing a brief description of each chosen course (copy and paste from the web or links to webpages). Examples of a table associated with a first LA and a table associated with an updated LA, with the changes highlighted.
Without both documents, your request won’t be processed.
- When you submit your first LA or update it later, always send me the following documents:
- INCOMING students. Send me the pdf of the LA (in the format of your home university). Please check that the LA does not contain courses restricted to EPFL students – the complete list is here.
- OUTGOING students
- Validation of the exchange year – OUTGOING students only
- Send me the complete transcript. To validate your Bachelor’s, you must obtain at least 180 ECTS after the exchange year. Otherwise:
- If you score at least 170 ECTS, you can catch up with the missing credits during the first year of the master’s at EPFL
- If you score less than 170 ECTS, you will have to repeat the third year at EPFL
- In both cases, the study plan at EPFL must be approved by me before validating your exchange year
- Once I receive the transcript, I validate the credits, and the SGM secretary submits the validation request to SAC. If you want to know the status of your Bachelor’s validation, please get in touch with SAC directly, not me. Due to the high volume of emails from exchange students, I will not reply to inquiries of this kind.
- Send me the complete transcript. To validate your Bachelor’s, you must obtain at least 180 ECTS after the exchange year. Otherwise: