Elective Modules
List of possible elective courses for Fall 2025
Attention: check the timing of these suggestions as they may collide with program lectures
Potential courses at UZH
STA 426 Statistical Analysis of High- Throughput Genomic and Transcriptomic Data
STA 121 Statistical Modeling
BME 337 Introduction to Digital Health
BME 338 Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) in Biomedicine**
BIO 390 Introduction to Bioinformatics
BIO 638: Next Generation Sequencing Applied to Metagenomics
GEO 874 Introduction to Databases*
Introduction to machine learning with R
Multivariate statistical analyses (in german)
Potential courses at ETH
ETHZ Statistics master program: Fall 2026
ETHZ 752-6105-00L Epidemiology and Prevention
ETHZ 401-4632-15L Causality
ETHZ 401-0625-01L Applied Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design
ETHZ 401-4633-00L Data Analytics in Organisations and Business
ETHZ 401-0627-00L Smoothing and Nonparametric Regression with Examples
ETHZ 263-2400-00L Reliable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
ETHZ 636-0009-00L Evolutionary Dynamics
List of possible elective courses for Spring 2026
Attention: check the timing of these suggestions as they may collide with program lectures
Potential courses at UZH
STA427 Statistical Methods in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
STA 433 R programming
SRMAWS: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Winter School
BME 339 Biomedical Informatics
BIO 394 Interdisciplinary Research Methods In Computational Biology
PHY 371 Machine Learning for the Sciences**
ESC 403 Introduction to Data Science
Database Systems*
Bayesian Data Analysis and Models of Behavior
Advanced Text Analysis Using Natural Language Processing
Seminar: Interactive Data Science in Digital Health
Introduction to Health Economics
ChatGPT and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to AI Literacy
Potential courses at ETH
ETHZ Statistics master program: Spring 2025
ETHZ: 701-1704-01 Health Impact Assessment: Concepts and Case Studies
ETHZ: 701-1708-00L Infectious Disease Dynamics
ETHZ: 401-3627-00 High-Dimensional Statistics
ETHZ: 401-3629-00L Quantative Risk Management (ETHZ)
* It is only possible to take either GEO 874 Introduction to Databases OR Database Systems
** It is only possible to take either BME 338 OR PHY 371
It is NOT possible to count the following courses as electives
STA 110 Introduction to Probability
STA 120 Introduction to Statistics
BME 318 Clinical Epidemiology and Quantitative Research in Health Care
BIO 134 Programming in Biology
FIM 101 Computational Probability and Simulation
Digital Transformation – A Scientific Overview
ETHZ 227-0971-00 Computational Psychiatry