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Not the OP, but I studied at ETH Lausanne and visited at ETH Zurich, and it was my best academic memory, surpassing Paris, London or the other universities I attended. So I recommend you a lot to try to get into this School, it's one of the best in the world, and the price of the education is a bargain compared to the comparable US universities.

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In case someone gets confused searching for it, normally the federal politecnic university at Lausanne is called by its French name, EPFL.

ETH Zürich has better score in international ratings, but the EPFL doesn't lag behind much. It's a really top noch place to learn any technical career.

Also worth mentioning is the fact that the Scala programming language was created at EPFL: https://scala.epfl.ch/

Martin Odersky (the original author) is still a professor there and teaches some Computer Science courses: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/

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