OpenFieldFounded in 1559 by John Calvin as the Geneva Academy, the University of Geneva (Université de Genève - UNIGE) is Switzerland's third largest university and one of Europe's top 20 research universities. UNIGE has produced or hosted 10 Nobel laureates and 3 Fields Medalists. Partnered intimately with CERN, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Geneva Observatory (where Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet), UNIGE excels in astrophysics, quantum information, particle physics, and international law. Explore verified Master's curricula, doctoral assistant salaries, and world-renowned faculty profiles.
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UNIGE Faculty of Science's premier merit fellowship awarded to exceptional incoming international and Swiss Master's candidates, providing up to CHF 15,000 per year to support full-time scientific study in Geneva.
Four-year salaried doctoral research appointment inside UNIGE departments, conducting frontier scientific investigations with state-of-the-art laboratory infrastructure in Geneva and CERN.
World-leading two-year Master of Science program (120 ECTS) hosted at the Geneva Observatory in Sauverny, offering specialized training in Exoplanetary Science, Stellar Physics, Observational Cosmology, and Space Instrumentation.
Comprehensive two-year Master's degree (90–120 ECTS) at the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI), covering Artificial Intelligence, Stochastic Information Processing, Cybersecurity, and Complex Systems.
Frontier collaborative research placements inside the Department of Nuclear and Corpuscular Physics (DPNC) at UNIGE, conducting experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (ATLAS, FASER) and AMS-02 on the ISS.
Structured summer research program inside UNIGE's Faculty of Science laboratories, offering students direct research mentorship in molecular biology, chemical biology, and experimental physics.
Departmental academic employment (sous-assistant) for enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at UNIGE, providing hourly compensation for conducting weekly tutorial exercise sessions and supervising lab sections.
Tuition at the University of Geneva is heavily subsidized by the Republic and Canton of Geneva. Tuition is standard at only CHF 500 per semester (CHF 1,000 per year) for both Swiss and international students. Selected international master's candidates can receive the Master of Excellence Fellowship (CHF 10,000 to CHF 15,000 per year). Doctoral assistants are paid salaried employees receiving CHF 48,000 to CHF 53,000 per year.
Distinguished researchers and laboratory heads at University of Geneva:
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2019) / Professor Emeritus of Astronomy; specializing in Exoplanetary Science, Doppler Spectroscopy, 51 Pegasi b.
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2019) / Professor of Physics, UNIGE & Cambridge; specializing in Exoplanet Detection, Planetary Systems, High-Precision Radial Velocity.
Full Professor of Computer Science / Head of SIP Group, CUI; specializing in Information Security, Stochastic Information Processing, Machine Learning for Security.
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