On 7 November 1853, eleven students filed onto campus for their first day of class at École Spéciale de Lausanne. The broad curriculum ranged from chemistry, physics and math to drawing, architecture and civil engineering. Inspired by École Centrale in Paris, the School’s five founders set out to “train talented engineers in Switzerland,” whose excellence and influence would extend far beyond the Vaud capital.
The private school soon earned the reputation as a “demanding, selective institution” – a testament to its caliber. The first students graduated in 1855, a few weeks before Institut Polytechnique de Zurich (present-day École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich) opened.
In 1869, the School was affiliated with Académie de Lausanne and became Académie de Lausanne’s technical school.
On 7 November 1853, eleven students filed onto campus for their first day of class at École Spéciale de Lausanne. The broad curriculum ranged from chemistry, physics and math to drawing, architecture and civil engineering. Inspired by École Centrale in Paris, the School’s five founders set out to “train talented engineers in Switzerland,” whose excellence and influence would extend far beyond the Vaud capital.
The private school soon earned the reputation as a “demanding, selective institution” – a testament to its caliber. The first students graduated in 1855, a few weeks before Institut Polytechnique de Zurich (present-day École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich) opened.
In 1869, the School was affiliated with Académie de Lausanne and became Académie de Lausanne’s technical school.
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