Internship
During your internship, you will put the skills learned during courses to practice in a professional environment. The internship is mandatory and lasts for at least ten weeks.
Internships allow you to gain first-hand experience in business and apply lessons learned in the classroom. They enable you to identify your strengths and weaknesses, explore different career options and develop your network.
As an integral part of the programme, the internship is mandatory and lasts at least 10 weeks. You can do it in Switzerland or abroad in a company or a non-profit organization, according to your preference. You can also do additional voluntary internships.
Before starting the internship, you need to register it on the protected page internship platform. You will also find guidance on internship options and additional information there.
Upon submission of a brief internship report, the internship earns 6 CP. If not successfully completed, you can repeat the internship once.
How to find an internship?
Finding and choosing an internship is based on your initiative. Here are some places you can start to look:
- Look up organisations who recently worked with MSc MTEC interns on the MTEC Internship Platform.
- For an international internship you may want to consider placements on external page IEASTE.
- We list some internship ads below.
- Read the Download internship guidelines (PDF, 37 KB).
- Register your internship on our protected page internship platform. The registration will then be audited by MSc MTEC Student Services
- Upon approval, register your internship on myStudies to get course credits after its completion.
Required for international students from non-EU countries
If you are an international students from a non-EU country, you need to provide a confirmation from the D-MTEC to the prospective employer, which states that the internship is mandatory. Please request this confirmation through MSc MTEC Student Services.
Attention
If you completed and received credit for the internship before starting your MSc MTEC studies, you are not permitted to undertake another internship in Switzerland during your studies due to labor law regulations.
You have to submitt a brief internship report via the protected page internship platform.
You will receive a certificate from the internship company or organisation to confirm that you have completed the internship. A digital copy of this certificate is to be submitted online with the report.