1. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10

2. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 A national mission, An international environment UniL UniZH UniGe UniNe UniFr UniBa UniLu UniBe UniSG USI The Swiss ContextSwiss Universities

3. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 * Bachelor, Master, PhD, Postgraduate (CMS not included) A steady increase 3'000 3'500 4'000 4'500 5'000 5'500 6'000 6'500 7'000 199019921994199619982000200220042006 2008 Nb of students * 7’162 EPFL EducationTotal Number of Students

4. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 AMERICA AFRICA OCEANIA SWISS 19902009 EUROPE ASIA 29.1% 45.2% 44.7% 0.2% 0.3% 10.7% 18.4% 8.2% 1.5% 8.2% 6.2% (1785)(354) 27.4% EPFL EducationRecruitment Origin of PhD students

5. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 Internationalization of EPFL TrendsEPFL Faculty Nationality of Faculty Full Prof., Associate Prof., Assistant Prof. “tenure track”, Prof. tit. 2000 2009 CH 63 % CH 44 % Europe 47 % Europe 31 % USA 5 % USA 4 % Middle East, Asia2 % Middle East, Asia4 % 179327 of which: France 10% Germany 10%

6. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 EPFL Nr 2 in Europe Top 100 World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences, 2008 Excellence in ResearchInternational Rankings

7. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 ERC Grants Ranking 1EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne24CH 2ETHZ - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich23CH 3University of Oxford22UK 4University of Cambridge21UK 5Weizmann Institute of Science20ISR 6Imperial College19UK 7The Hebrew University of Jerusalem16ISR 8University College London11UK 9Technion - Israel Institute of Technology10ISR University of Bristol10UK Nb grants / institution (10 grants or more) European Grants 2007-2009 The top 10 in Basic Sciences, Life Sciences and Engineering including interdisciplinary research, excl. social sciences and humanities EPFL Research

8. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 Engineering projects Contribute to motivating projects... ->for our students ->for our researchers ->for our region ->for Switzerland Alinghi Solar Impulse Hydroptère School ProjectsInnovate & Transfer

9. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 Engineering Education

10. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 Employment of EPFL Graduates AlumniEPFL Education * Proportion of EPFL graduates having a job compared to the global number of graduates (excl. those going for a PhD), one year after Diploma ->Employment rate remains stable over the years despite an increase of the number of graduates 85.5% 91.5% 82.5% 87.0% 88.9% 87.6% 84.0% 89.0% 90.0% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 199319951997199920012003200420062008 Net Employment Rate * 589 385 Nb of employed graduates % of employed graduates

11. EPFL-PRES 12.02.09 Have a good conference!

12. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 Number of ISI publications TrendsEPFL Research

13. EPFL-PRES 11.09.10 Scientific output TrendsEPFL Research Strong increase of the number of citations