Graduation Ceremony

At our graduation ceremonies we honor all Bachelor-, Master- and Doctoral graduates who have successfully completed their degrees. We celebrate your graduation and welcome you as new alumnae and alumnus of the Faculty.

The next graduation ceremony will take place on Saturday, 24 May 2025. All graduates with degree conferal dates from July 2024 onwards will receive a personal invitation in due course.

Registration for the graduation ceremony

Please note the following important notice regarding registration for the graduation ceremony:

Registration for the graduation ceremony will be open from 4 April 2025. On this date, you will receive a personal invitation by e-mail (for you and a maximum of two accompanying persons) with a registration link to the private email address you have registered when you enrolled for your study program.

Is your private, registered e-mail address no longer valid or are you not sure? Then please fill in the
linked form by 15 March 2024 at the latest, so that you receive the invitation to the graduation ceremony via the correct email address (the corresponding email address must be valid until July
2025): To the form
If your registered private e-mail address is no longer up to date on 4 April 2025, the invitation will still be deemed to have been sent.

Late registrations for the graduation ceremony are not possible. For questions regarding the registration process, please contact: promotionsfeier@oec.uzh.ch

Highlights of the graduation ceremony 2024

This year's graduation ceremony took place on Saturday, 1 June 2024, with 500 graduates and around 1000 relatives.

To the news article
To the recording of the ceremony
To the picture gallery
To the guest speech of Carolina Müller-Möhl (PDF, 131 KB)

Impact and Engagement Awards 2024

For the third time, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics honored at its graduation ceremony scholarly work at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels that contributes science to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and thus has an impact on society, the environment, and the economy. In addition, the Engagement Award were given for special commitment alongside studies and the winner was chosen by the audience.

To the news article
More on the Impact and Engagement Awards

More information on the SDG Impact Awards

The award for scientific work with impressive impact in the field of SDGs honors theses that take up topics of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and develop foundations or elements for improvement in these areas. One thesis each on Bachelor, Master or PhD level will be awarded. The prizes are endowed with CHF 1,000 each.

The prize for special commitment alongside studies recognizes the achievements of students or doctoral students in business, economics or informatics who distinguish themselves through their commitment or innovative strength alongside their studies.

The prize is awarded once per graduation ceremony and is endowed with CHF 1,000.

Criteria

The thesis was written and submitted between February 2023 and January 2024.
The work addresses issues in the area of one or more SDGs.
The work includes analysis, approaches, measures, models, algorithms, or similar elements that support the implementation of one or more SDGs.
The lmpact on practice and/or society is addressed directly or indirectly.
The paper demonstrates high scientific quality and has been graded at least 5 or higher.
The work has never been nominated for the corresponding award

Nomination

The nomination is made by the supervising professor. All professors of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics have received an information letter. Are you a graduate and would like to have your thesis nominated? Then please contact your supervising professor.

Nominations for the SDG Impact Awards 2025 will be open from December 2024 on.

Welcome to our alumni community

We are enormously proud of our alumnae and alumnae, so we want to stay in touch with you after you graduate. The most important step for this: Activate your alumni profile so we can contact you in the future.

Activate Alumni Profile (free of charge)

In addition, you can also join one of our alumni member clubs:

OEC ALUMNI UZH
UZH Alumni Informatics

Find more information on our alumni community at: oec.uzh.ch/alumni