Costs and application details

Cost

Until November 3, 2025: CHF 7900.–  (plus CHF 200.– application fee)
As of November 4, 2025: CHF 8800.– (plus CHF 200.– application fee)

Online application

Applications for the CAS Type & Brand are processed directly through ZHdK’s online tool (ONLA). Further information on how to use ONLA is available below.

Application deadline

The application deadline was 15 December 2025. 

→ To the online application for CAS Type & Brand (Spring 2026)

  • Information about online application (ONLA)

    You can interrupt the application process at any time and complete it at a later date. The information you have entered will be saved. Mandatory fields are marked with a *.

    Once you have entered all your information, complete the process by clicking on “Finish entry”. The data can no longer be amended. Your submission will be reviewed by the Continuing Education Office.

    Please check your e-mail spam folder during the application period. If you have any further questions about online application or experience any technical difficulties, please contact the Continuing Education Centre: Contact

  • Sign in with ZHdK-Login or Switch edu-ID

    If you have a ZHdK login, you may apply with your ZHdK login.
    If you have no ZHdK login, you will need a SWITCH edu-ID.

    → How to create and use a SWITCH edu-ID (in German)

  • Required documents

    Curriculum Vitae

    A brief and clear list of your education and professional career history.

    Covering letter

    Set out your reason for applying for the continuing education degree programme on a maximum of one side of A4. If you do not have a university degree, please describe your professional experience up to this point and why you are applying for your chosen continuing education degree programme (maximum of two sides of A4).

    Photo of yourself in JPG format

    Upload a recent photo in passport photo quality (at least 320 x 400 pixels). The photo must be high-contrast and your face must be clearly visible. It may not feature other people or objects.

    Social security number

    If you live or work in Switzerland, you will find your Swiss social security number (756…) on your OASI card or on your Swiss health insurance card. 

    Further documents

    • Transcripts
    • Degrees
    • Certificates

    The documents must be uploaded in PDF format. If you have several individual PDF files, you can upload these one after another.

  • Further documents to be submitted for the CAS Type & Brand

    Portfolio

    As evidence of your professional experience, please submit a dossier with samples of your work (approx. 5 projects of 3 to 5 pages, PDF).

    We would like to get to know you as designer through this portfolio. We are particularly interested in 
    creation processes in the form of sketches and design steps as well as work with type, typographical elements, image compositions, symbols, editorial design and similar.
    Brief explanations and captions detailing the framework conditions under which you produced the portfolio work will help us to make our assessment.

Terms and conditions

For applications for the CAS Type & Brand, the Continuing Education Centre’s general terms and conditions apply.