| Ownership | Public, Vienna |
|---|---|
| City | Vienna |
| Founded | 1815 |
| Students | ≈ 26,102 |
| 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.
Applicants from outside the EU send their documents by post only; processing takes 10–12 weeks, so the recommended window is 16 January – 15 July for the winter semester and 16 July – 15 January for the summer semester. Pre-registration is required by 5 September (winter) or 5 February (summer). Informatics, architecture and spatial planning have an entrance exam. German at C1 is required; architecture, civil, mechanical and chemical engineering and geodesy also require descriptive geometry.
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.
