| Ownership | Public, Vienna |
|---|---|
| City | Vienna |
| Founded | 1365 |
| Students | ≈ 7,763 |
| Preparatory course | University Preparation Programme of the Vienna Universities (VWU) |
If your school certificate does not give direct admission, the university admits you on condition of supplementary exams (Ergänzungsprüfungen), and the preparatory course below gets you ready for them. The exams count for the university that prescribed them.
The general procedure is the same for all programmes of the university; the required grade, language and additional requirements are on the page of each programme.
Medicine and dentistry admit through the MedAT, once a year: registration and payment (€110) in March, the test in early July (expected 1–31 March and 9 July 2027). The test is in German only; German at C1 is required. In 2026/27 Vienna had 784 places (704 in medicine, 80 in dentistry) and 8,235 registrations. In medicine at least 95% of the places go to Austrian and EU citizens, so applicants from other countries can get at most 5%. Supplementary exams, Latin for example, may be required.
If your certificate or your German is not enough, the university admits you on condition of supplementary exams (Ergänzungsprüfungen); the VWU — the preparation programme of the Vienna universities — gets you ready for them.
International students pay €726.72 per semester at Austria's public universities, plus the students' union (ÖH) fee of €26.20 (2026/27) — €752.92 per semester in total. Citizens of the countries on the ministry's list and some groups (refugees, for example) are exempt from tuition; everyone pays the ÖH fee.
Some programmes charge their own fee — see the programme page.
Two typical stops: a school certificate without direct admission and German below the required level. Both can be solved within a year, but plan them before you apply, not after a rejection.
Requirements and deadlines differ within one university. We will pick 3–5 programmes for your certificate and language and plan everything back from the deadline.
