Why Study in Austria

Situated in the heart of Europe, Austria offers great variety concentrated in a small area. Here you can find peace and a unique quality of life, big city flair and a rich culture.

Austria combines a long tradition of higher education with state-of-the-art research – its higher education institutions have accomplished outstanding achievements on an international level and gained a high reputation.

Austrian higher education institutions offer an ever-growing number of degree programmes: you can choose between first-class research-based courses, a world-famous education at any of the universities of the arts, high-quality practice-oriented degree courses at the universities of applied sciences, and sound, up-to-date teacher education and innovative courses at private universities

All in all, Austria offers you a broad spectrum of educational opportunities – not to mention great social security, economic stability and the great hospitality of the Austrians.

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Top Universities in Austria

With high quality universities and low tuition fees it is an attractive alternative to Germany in which to learn in one of the world’s most important languages – German.

Austria has 23 public and 11 private universities.

There are three Austrian universities in the QS World University Rankings 2014–15 Top 300. The nation’s leading university, the University of Vienna is 156th, Vienna University of Technology is 246th, and Universität Innsbruck is 288th.

Established in 1365, the University of Vienna is Austria’s oldest and largest university.

A dozen or so undergraduate and many more postgraduate courses are taught in English. More are taught in English and German.

• Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
• Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
• IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
• International Business School
• Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences
• MCI Management Center Innsbruck
• MODUL University Vienna
• Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
• University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• University of Graz
• University of Innsbruck
• University of Klagenfurt
• University of Leoben
• University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
• University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna
• University of Salzburg
• University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
• University of Vienna
• Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
• Vienna University of Technology