The University of Zurich and ETH Zurich recognize the growing importance of language skills to academic study, research, and academic and other professional fields. 
The Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich is a provider of language services to the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. The Center offers academic-level foreign language courses and functions as the point of contact for the two institutes with regard to issues relating to the acquisition of foreign, academic, and specialist language.

 “The Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich is a service provider shared by the two Universities. It exists to foster the use of foreign languages at an academic level and acts as an inter-university reference point for matters concerning the acquisition of foreign languages and languages for specific and academic purposes.“ 

(The Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich Statutes , §1 Definition) 

Within the University of Zurich, the Language Center is attached to  the Office of the Vice President for Arts and Social Sciences.

Our target groups 

Our target groups are undergraduate students working towards Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees; exchange students; Swiss federal government scholarship holders, PhD students, researchers, and academic and administrative staff of the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich.