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Grants Attract Students

Strong performing students will be awarded grants covering their cost of living as Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology seeks to attract the best international talent. The Institute is currently piloting the Excellence and Opportunities Scholarships with 13 top grade students receiving 21,000 CHF each in 2007 and 20 more being awarded the grant in 2008. Funds have now been allocated for more than double this number of Masters students in future years.

This is in contrast to a controversial proposal by the Swiss Business Federation, economiesuisse, to saddle underachieving students with higher fees and allow the best academic performers to study for free.
The scholarships - along with plans to introduce 80 new professors in the next ten years and the construction of 1,000 affordable housing units at the Science City research complex - are part of an expansion drive at the Institute. "We must grow to keep up with international competition," President Ralph Eichler is quoted as saying.