Elective Modules
List of possible elective modules for Fall Semester
Attention: check the timing of these suggestions as they may collide with compulsory modules. And please note that not every module is offered every year.
Potential modules at UZH
STA 121 Statistical Modeling
STA 426 Statistical Analysis of High- Throughput Genomic and Transcriptomic Data
BME 337 Introduction to Digital Health
BME 338 Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) in Biomedicine**
BIO 390 Introduction to Bioinformatics
GEO 874 Introduction to Databases*
Introduction to machine learning with R
Multivariate statistical analyses (in german)
Potential modules at ETH
ETHZ Statistics master program: Fall 2025
ETHZ 401-0625-01L Applied Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design
ETHZ 401-0627-00L Smoothing and Nonparametric Regression with Examples
ETHZ 401-3621-00L Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics
ETHZ 401-4632-15L Causality
ETHZ 401-4633-00L Data Analytics in Organisations and Business
ETHZ 263-2400-00L Reliable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
ETHZ 636-0009-00L Evolutionary Dynamics
ETHZ 752-6105-00L Epidemiology and Prevention
List of possible elective modules for Spring Semester
Attention: check the timing of these suggestions as they may collide with compulsory modules. And please note that not every module is offered every year.
Potential modules at UZH
STA 427 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**
MAT 892 Applied Bayesian Modeling and Computation
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 modules 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 modules 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
ETHZ 401-6228-00L Programming with R for Reproducible Research (take STA 433 R programming instead)