ZbW - Zentrum für berufliche Weiterbildung Review

Anyone looking for a practically oriented degree is clearly out of place here. You just shovel in roughly theory and then you can start self-study from scratch and solve and learn the tasks with the help of Youtube, the presentations and the books. The lesson has hardly any significant use. You could actually turn it into a distance-learning college, since self-study is important anyway, and you actually don't do anything else in class than look at those slides that you have to look at again anyway, since the class only draws attention to the fact that something exists. Time consuming and quite inefficient. The exercises that you get start partly in the middle. In order to get the context so that you know what is actually doing what and how you work together, you have to look for a tutorial on YouTube or elsewhere on the Internet in some, not all, subjects.

There are exams for the entire material once per semester. Sometimes not even material that was dealt with or was only roughly mentioned in the slides.

Anyone who takes an exam here must know: Each new material must be learned more deeply than it is dealt with in the classroom or the material given. Learning what is taught in the semester will not be enough.
Apart from the first semester, I don't think there was a semester in which the grades did not have to be corrected.
That is quite a poor testimony to the ZbW's professionalism.

For this you pay 2900.- per semester

Recommendation: Another school or prefer to go straight to the FH. There is probably a better education, it costs less per semester and in the end you have a higher degree.

A good school. I did my IT technician there. However, you can sometimes be unlucky and get a total rivet from teachers, then you just have to shovel the material into the self-study. By the way; best math teacher I've ever met: R. Moser! Thank you for your effort, never had so much fun with math as with you.

Top training institution with very competent lecturers, who all have a lot of practical experience. I can only recommend ZbW.

I'm in my 4 semester of mechanical engineering and can only recommend the ZbW as a secondary school. Practice-oriented school with motivated and competent teaching staff. The knowledge imparted at the ZbW can be directly applied in everyday working life.

Extremely poor training as a technician. Extremely inept teachers and poor organization. Have often been treated like primary school students even though it should be an adult education. Secretariat unable to send invoices to the correct address. Not recommendable.

Easy to find. Very quiet. Also getting a bit old. Clean and groomed. School offer great.

I did my vocational trainer here and was completely satisfied everything worked out wonderfully for me and the teaching people were super friendly - happy to recommend

Great school or rather adult education / further education. The lecturers are very good and the structure is very practical. You really like to go there.

The selection of further training is very diverse and, thanks to good facilities, well structured.

Location including parking is excellent. The restaurant is also very well run and offers a great selection.

Excellent training. Methodical-didactic biplane leads to much added value. Have benefited a lot and would come at any time.

Very contemporary and pleasant training facility. Free parking spaces also available for students

Do this training as a technician computer science.
If the apprenticeship at the ZbW is more or less the same as that of higher technical colleges or technical colleges, I will not go to college.
There were a few good teachers in my education. For example, those who have maths at Reto Moser can really learn something. Otherwise, the school does not have much to offer. Unfortunately, many of the lecturers are didactic rivets. There are lecturers who make an effort, but unfortunately the time is missing.

The tests in Programming Advanced offer sometimes unclear questions, you have to guess more bad than good, what is required for the given score, instead of the learned network programming was asked for unit tests. In finance, the exam was completely different than the stuff we've always seen, WebTechnologies I asked questions that you would never find in the workplace, and these are just a few examples.

Programming is done on paper exams. Because the compiler does not show you your little flaws in the world of work. Then you learn that the perfect software does not exist, but at the same time the lecturer expects perfection. Even if you are a newcomer. Without several years of programming experience.

+1 star for the lecturers who are still trying.

Edit: Regarding practice: There are always tasks and attestations. Some more, some less close to the treated substance.
In the end, there is a big surprise for software developers: A project work that lasts for the entire 6th semester. Since you are just busy with it and has less and less time for the other subjects to learn.