Employability
Informatics is both the infrastructure and the engine of today’s society. It plays a key role in the industry as well as the service sector in Switzerland. The national training and research institutions have acquired a considerable reputation worldwide, in particular in the IT field. Many IT companies have or are planning to have research and development centres in Switzerland. Considering this, graduates in Informatics have excellent opportunities in the job market.
The demand for well-educated specialists in Informatics is very high and is expected to grow even more. Graduates of the Master of Science in Informatics are trained to solve complex problems in interdisciplinary areas such as machine learning, intelligent search engines, computer graphics and special effects, computer vision and face recognition, robotics, data science, and they are prepared to design, build, integrate, validate, and maintain reliable and secure software systems for the highly competitive software industry of the 21st century.
The following data are based on the last USI Alumni Survey, carried out by the USI Career&Alumni Service and the USI Alumni DB.
| 1 year after graduation | |
| Employed | 100% |
| Time to Job | 1.1 months (62% before or immediately after graduation) |
| Salary | Average/100% gross annual salary in CH 76.300 Chf |
Place of Work:
| Switzerland | 63% |
| Ticino | 26% |
| Other Swiss Cantons | 37% |
| Italy | 11% |
| Other Countries | 26% |
Employment Industries:
| Informatics, Technology, Web | 21,4% |
| Education and Research | 26,2% |
| Industry | 21,4% |
| Banking and Finance | 14,2% |
| Tourism and Transportation | 4,8% |
| Consulting | 4,8% |
| Trade | 4,8% |
| Architecture, Design, Engineering | 2,4% |
Employment Functions:
| IT, Engineering, web, data scientist | 41,2% |
| Research and Development | 3,9% |
| Teaching, Training and Academic research | 33,3% |
| Information technology, technology, web | 5,9% |
| Operations, logistics | 3,9% |
| Sales, Customer service | 3,9% |
| others | 7,9% |
Source: 2024 USI Master Survey (alumni 2023) and USI Alumni DB
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Research summer internships for students - UROP Internships
The Faculty of Informatics encourages and promotes the talent of its Bachelor and Master students by offering them summer internships in academic research within the programme Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - UROP.
Internships are extracurricular, and access is on a competitive basis. Students work one-on-one with an advisor to develop a deeper understanding of both the concepts taught during the semester and the research topic. Students considering continuing in academia should seriously consider applying for a UROP position.
All research opportunities for this year are listed here.
See all the job and internship opportunities in the USI Job Bank.