INTERNATIONAL

General University Entrance Qualification

The General University Entrance Qualification is to be proven by means of one of the following documents:

• Austrian School Leaving Certificate (Matura),
• Other Austrian certificate conferring university entrance qualification for a specific study programme at the university,
• Foreign certificate equivalent to one of these Austrian certificates,
• Certificate concerning the completion of an at least 3-year course of study at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution.

If foreign certificates are not regarded as equivalent to the Austrian school leaving certificate in terms of content and requirements, the Rector shall lay down the supplementary examinations necessary for establishing equivalence. These supplementary examinations must be taken before admission to a degree programme.

Special University Entrance Qualification

In addition to the General University Entrance Qualification, students holding foreign certificates must provide evidence that they satisfy the conditions for admission specific to the field of studies, including proof that they would be admitted directly to the degree programme in the country issuing the document. The holder of the school leaving certificate must be actually entitled to immediately commence the course of study for which he/she has applied to admission in Austria at a university without any further entrance examination, admission examination, supplementary examination, or other restrictions in the country of issue (“Special University Entrance Qualification”). If the study programme that the student wishes to attend in Austria does not exist in the country of issue, evidence shall be submitted with respect to the most closely related study programme. It is only if this country has no universities whatsoever that no such evidence need be provided (not valid for applicants from countries of the European Union).

Knowledge of German

All applicants are required to have sufficient knowledge of the German language in order to ensure that they are capable of following the courses. If an applicant does not have sufficient mastery of the German language, the Rector shall require him/her to take a supplementary examination before commencing the study programme.
Scope of the university language examination of German: the knowledge of spoken and written German necessary for the field(s) of study selected and the use of the German language to the extent necessary for understanding the relevant texts.
Requirement of German knowledge is B 2/b, for bachelor programme “German Studies” C 1.

Form: Application for admission to the Bachelor’s Degree, Secondary School Teacher Accreditation Programmes

General University Entrance Qualification

Admission to a Master’s Degree Programme requires the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject or a Bachelor’s Course of Study at a University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) in a relevant subject or another equivalent study programme at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution. In any event, evidence of General University Entrance Qualification shall be deemed to have been provided by means of evidence that these conditions for admission have been satisfied.
 

Special University Entrance Qualification

In addition to the General University Entrance Qualification, students holding foreign certificates must provide evidence that they satisfy the conditions for admission specific to the field of studies, including proof that they would be admitted directly to the degree programme in the country issuing the document. The holder of the school leaving certificate must be actually entitled to immediately commence the course of study for which he/she has applied to admission in Austria at a university without any further entrance examination, admission examination, supplementary examination, or other restrictions in the country of issue (“Special University Entrance Qualification”). If the study programme that the student wishes to attend in Austria does not exist in the country of issue, evidence shall be submitted with respect to the most closely related study programme. It is only if this country has no universities whatsoever that no such evidence need be provided (not valid for applicants from countries of the European Union).

Knowledge of German

All applicants are required to have sufficient knowledge of the German language in order to ensure that they are capable of following the courses. If an applicant does not have sufficient mastery of the German language, the Rector shall require him/her to take a supplementary examination before commencing the study programme. In the case of artistic fields of study, the Board of Studies can lay down in the curriculum that evidence of the taking of the supplementary examination shall be submitted before registering for the continuation of the study programme for the third semester.

Scope of the university language examination of German: the knowledge of spoken and written German necessary for the field(s) of study selected and the use of the German language to the extent necessary for understanding the relevant texts.

Not obligatory for the admission in English and American Studies, Information and Communications Engineering, International Management and Media & Convergence Management.

Form: Application for admission to the Master’s degree programme

General University Entrance Qualification

Evidence of General University Entrance Qualification for admission to the Doctoral Programme shall in any event be deemed to be provided by means of evidence of the completion of a Diploma Programme or Masters Degree Programme in a relevant subject, a Diploma course of study at a University of Applied Sciences (Fachochschule) or a Magister course of study at a University of Applied Sciences or another equivalent study programme at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution. If the studies are basically deemed to be equivalent and all that is missing for complete equivalence is a number of individual supplements, the Rectorate shall be entitled to determine that the studies are equivalent, subject to the taking of examinations during the Doctoral Programme.

Special University Entrance Qualification

In addition to the General University Entrance Qualification, students holding foreign certificates must provide evidence that they satisfy the conditions for admission specific to the field of studies, including proof that they would be admitted directly to the degree programme in the country issuing the document. The holder of the school leaving certificate must be actually entitled to immediately commence the course of study for which he/she has applied to admission in Austria at a university without any further entrance examination, admission examination, supplementary examination, or other restrictions in the country of issue (“Special University Entrance Qualification”). If the study programme that the student wishes to attend in Austria does not exist in the country of issue, evidence shall be submitted with respect to the most closely related study programme. It is only if this country has no universities whatsoever that no such evidence need be provided (not valid for applicants from countries of the European Union).

Knowledge of German

All applicants are required to have sufficient knowledge of the German language in order to ensure that they are capable of following the courses. If an applicant does not have sufficient mastery of the German language, the Rector shall require him/her to take a supplementary examination before commencing the study programme. In the case of artistic fields of study, the Board of Studies can lay down in the curriculum that evidence of the taking of the supplementary examination shall be submitted before registering for the continuation of the study programme for the third semester.

Scope of the university language examination of German: the knowledge of spoken and written German necessary for the field(s) of study selected and the use of the German language to the extent necessary for understanding the relevant texts.

For the Doctoral Programme, the Rector can permit the above rules to be relaxed if the knowledge is not necessary with respect to the course of the study programme.

Form: Application for admission to the Doctoral Programme

Note: This document has no legal status. For legal purposes, the sole valid version of the information it contains is that published in the Austrian Federal Law Gazettes (Bundesgesetzblättern der Republik Österreich).

General university entrance qualifications presented by members of the following groups of persons have the same status as those issued in Austria.

The following documents must be submitted with your application as proof of membership in one of the applicable groups:

• provisions of legislation or an international treaty; persons in the service of the Republic of Austria who, at the time of obtaining their school-leaving certificates, were resident in a country outside Austria, where they enjoyed privileges or immunities on the basis of the provisions of legislation or an international treaty; the spouses and children of such persons
  Proof: Valid identity card (Legitimationskarte) issued by the Austrian Foreign Ministry

• Foreign journalists accredited in Austria, for whom Austria is the principal country of work; the spouses and children of such journalists
  Proof: Press accreditation card (Akkreditierungsurkunde)

• Persons for whom Austria has represented the focus of their life and interests for a period of at least five consecutive years immediately prior to their application for admission, or having at least one legal dependent (parents, husband/wife) for whom such is the case
  Proof: Extract from the records of the Austrian Area Health Insurance Agency (Österreichische Gebietskrankenkasse) or a statement from your employer or confirmation of income tax payment provided by the Austrian tax authorities (Finanzamt), Residence Registration Form (Meldezettel);Additionally required for persons liable for maintenance: birth certificate and/or marriage certificate

• Persons who have been awarded a scholarship for the program which is the subject of their application, either on the basis of the provisions of an international treaty or, to the same amount, from those funds of an Austrian local or provincial authority which under the financial regulations of that authority are assigned explicitly for scholarships
  Proof: Confirmation of receipt of the scholarship

• Persons in possession of a school-leaving certificate of an Austrian school abroad
  Proof: Secondary school leaving certificate

• Persons entitled to reside in Austria under the terms of the Austrian Act on Refugees’ Right of Residence in line with the Convention on Refugees’ Rights
  Proof: Administrative decision/identification stating refugee status pursuant to the provisions of the Geneva Convention

• Persons entitled to reside in Austria under the terms of the Austrian Asylum Act
  Proof: Special asylum identity card (Aufenthaltsberechtigungskarte)

• Persons in possession of a secondary school leaving certificate from a German-language or Ladin language second degree secondary school in the Italian Province of Bolzano-Bozen
  Proof: Secondary school leaving certificate