FAQ
Here we answer your questions on topics including membership, logging in and e-mail forwarding.
You will find the by-laws of the ETH Alumni Association Downloadhere (PDF, 68 KB).
To register with the ETH Alumni Association, simply fill out this registration form. We will process your registration as soon as possible and get back to you by e-mail.
An alumnus or alumna is someone who has graduated from ETH Zurich with a formally recognised qualification. The following ETH Zurich degrees are recognised:
- a bachelor's degree (BSc or BA) or master's degree (MSc or MA, formerly called "Diplom");
- a doctorate or a postdoctoral qualification;
- a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) or Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA);
- a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) or Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS);
- a teaching diploma for middle schools or a teaching certificate (which includes the qualification for upper secondary schools and the teaching certificate);
- a post graduate course (NADEL); and
- a federal diploma (in pharmacy, gymnastics and sports teachers, career officers).
Eligibility to join the association shall continue for life, even if the programme or qualification earned has changed or is no longer offered.
All former or current members of the academic faculty and post-docs are also considered ETH Zurich alumni provided that they are currently active at ETH or were so for at least four semesters.
In cases of doubt, the executive board of the ETH Alumni Association shall decide on the ETH Zurich alumni status of any individual in consultation with the ETH Zurich administration,
Terminating membership
Members may leave the ETH Alumni Association at any time at the end of the calendar year. Written correspondence indicating a member’s intention to leave the association must be received by the office by the end of September. The full membership fee must be paid for any incomplete year of membership (see DownloadStatutes Art. 9 (PDF, 345 KB))
E-mail address:
Postal address:
ETH Alumni Vereinigung
Geschäftsstelle
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
Switzerland.
As a graduate of ETH, you can reactivate your membership at any time.
Want to learn more about the benefits of membership? In a nutshell:
- Access to a fantastic global network of more than 35,000 alumni and alumnae
- Top-quality specialist events and networking opportunities
- Various discounts such as lower insurance premiums and favourably-priced hardware
- Help with planning your career: jobs platform and coaching service.
- An e-mail address you can use for the rest of your life (with option of forwarding to another e-mail address)
- Membership is free up to the age of 27
- CHF 70 a year thereafter
Read more here
If you have forgotten your login details for MyAlumni, you can simply use the forgotten password function. If you no longer know which e-mail address you used to register with us, simply send us an e-mail and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Q: What is the ETH alumni e-mail forwarding address?
The e-mail forwarding address is the easiest way to keep in touch with other alumni no matter where you are in the world and no matter how often you change employer, your home address or your e-mail address. You can use this e-mail address for the rest of your life.
Q: How does the e-mail forwarding address work?
An e-mail forwarding address is not a separate e-mail account. Incoming messages are simply forwarded to the e-mail account stored with your provider. So you need to have saved a valid e-mail address before you can start to receive messages via the forwarding address. If you change your e-mail address, you can change this in MyAlumni too.
Q: What happens to my old ETH e-mail address?
The old student e-mail address will be deleted within 6 months of your de-registration from ETH and can no longer be contacted after this time.
Q: What do I have to do to get an e-mail forwarding address?
As a member, you will automatically receive an e-mail forwarding address. We will send you the information by e-mail when we confirm your membership.
Q: Can I use the forwarding address to log into the ETH web outlook?
No, that is not possible. The forwarding address only forwards e-mails; you cannot therefore use it to access e-mails directly.
Q: Where can I access my e-mails?
The alumni e-mail forwarding address is simply a forwarding address; it does not therefore have its own inbox. Instead, e-mails are forwarded directly to the saved destination address. So e-mails can be accessed via the inbox of the respective destination address.
Q: E-mail forwarding isn't working.
Check your spam settings. It is possible that e-mails arriving via the forwarding address are being intercepted by your spam filter.
If you have recently changed your destination address in your profile on the MyAlumni portal, it may take up to 24 hours for the change to take effect.
Note: If you send an e-mail from your destination address to your alumni address, you would think that it would ultimately arrive at your destination address. However, this action is disabled and this form of test mail will not work.
Q: How much does the ETH alumni e-mail forwarding service cost?
As a member of the ETH Alumni Association, e-mails are forwarded to you for free.
Q: Why does ETH Zurich provide its alumni with an e-mail forwarding address?
The e-mail forwarding address simplifies communication amongst alumni and between ETH and former students. The e-mail address lasts your entire life meaning that you don't need to inform us of changes of address (e.g. should you change provider, etc.).
And lastly: a personal e-mail address ending in @alumni.ethz.ch is simply better than a conventional provider address.
Q: Why do I need a lifelong e-mail address?
Just like your home address, your e-mail address changes when you change provider. When you move house, you have to inform friends, relatives, the postal service, official bodies etc. of your new address. And the same applies if you change your e-mail address: you have to let everyone you know of your new address, you have to remove your old address from mailing lists and sign up again with your new one, you have to change your address in lots of e-mail directories.
But with a permanent and representative forwarding address, you only have to report the valid recipient address in one place for incoming e-mails to be forwarded to the new address.
Q: What do I need to do if my saved e-mail address changes?
Change your destination address in your entry in the MyAlumni.
Have you moved? Do you have a new address and would you like to change it? There are two possibilities:
Change it yourself in MyAlumni
You can easily change your address in MyAlumni yourself. Log in and click on "member account" and "address".
Write us an e-mail
Write us an e-mail with your new address on , we will change your address for you.
ETH Alumni are entitled to terminate their membership with the ETH Alumni Association. DownloadArticle 9 of the bylaws (PDF, 187 KB) provides for the following arrangement:
Termination is possible at any time by the end of the calendar year. It needs to be done in writing, per e-mail to or via letter to
ETH Alumni Association
Administrative Office
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
and needs to arrive at the end of September at the administrative office. The whole amount for the membership is due for years begun.
As an ETH graduate, you can activate your membership any time.
Did you graduate from a course that doesn't yet have its own alumni group? Have you moved to a town or country where ETH alumni and alumnae haven’t yet come together as a group? Then set one up yourself! The ETH alumni community belongs to all of you and we attach great importance to receiving input from you to enable us to develop.
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