[5] Affiliated with ZHdK are the Museum of Design, Zurich, the Theater der Künste (Theatre of the Arts), the Mehrspur Music Club, and the Media and Information Centre (MIZ).

It was located in a building constructed by architects Adolf Steger and Karl Egender, which today also houses the Museum of Design, Zurich.

Following the 2007 school merger, ZHdK occupied 35 sites, spread across the cities of Zurich (Ausstellungsstrasse, Florhof, Mediacampus, Gessnerallee) and Winterthur.

In the autumn of 2014, ZHdK relocated to its new campus: the Toni Areal, formerly Europe's largest yogurt factory,[7] in the city's western district (Zurich West).

Students take part in performances at the university's own concert halls and on a regular basis also at Zurich's Tonhalle and other public venues.

MA students can specialise in directing, documentary filmmaking, screenwriting, cinematography, film editing or creative producing.

The Department of Fine Arts offers degree courses in digitality, photography, installation/sculpture, painting, performance, sound, language, and video/movement.