🇦🇹 80 institutions · 2,552 programmes
Every degree in Austria, and whether you have to test in.
Austria's Ministry of Science registers every programme at every university, Fachhochschule, private university and teacher-education college — with its admission procedure, length and fees.
Programmes
2,552
at 80 institutions.
Public university students
296,177
WS 2025/26, at 23 public universities, each person counted once.
Open-entry bachelor's
229
of 834 bachelor's programmes list no entrance test.
Tuition at public universities
€726.72
a semester for most students from outside the EU/EEA.
At public universities, students from the EU/EEA pay no tuition within the standard length of their programme plus a tolerance; beyond it they pay €363.36 a semester. Students from outside the EU/EEA generally pay €726.72 a semester. Everyone pays the student union (ÖH) fee.
Of the 296,177 people at public universities in WS 2025/26, 186,022 (62.8%) hold Austrian citizenship, 69,926 (23.6%) that of another EU country and 40,229 (13.6%) that of a non-EU country. The universities' own counts in the table below add up to 325,077, because someone enrolled at two universities is counted at each.
By citizenship, in the ministry's three groups: Austria, other EU countries, and all other countries. The source does not say where citizens of Switzerland and the non-EU EEA countries are counted. This is not a count of international or exchange students: citizenship says nothing about where someone lived or went to school. Nor is it the fee split, which follows its own rules.
All 80 institutions
Student numbers are published per institution only for the public universities; each public university's page also has its students by citizenship, degree studies by type and field, and degrees completed.
Public universities (23)
Research universities, including the medical, technical and arts universities.
Universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen) (22)
Practice-oriented degrees with a fixed number of places and a selection procedure.
Private universities (20)
Accredited private institutions that set their own fees.
University colleges of teacher education (15)
Teacher training (Lehramt), often jointly with a public university.
| Institution | Students | Programmes |
|---|---|---|
| Pädagogische Hochschule WienWien | — | 17 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule OberösterreichLinz | — | 15 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule SteiermarkGraz | — | 15 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule TirolInnsbruck | — | 14 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule NiederösterreichBaden | — | 9 |
| Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese LinzLinz | — | 8 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg Stefan ZweigSalzburg | — | 6 |
| Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik WienWien | — | 6 |
| Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Edith-SteinStams | — | 6 |
| Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/KremsKrems an der Donau | — | 6 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule KärntenKlagenfurt | — | 5 |
| Pädagogische Hochschule VorarlbergFeldkirch | — | 5 |
| Private Pädagogische Hochschule AugustinumGraz | — | 5 |
| Private Pädagogische Hochschule Stiftung BurgenlandEisenstadt | — | 3 |
| Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Benedikt XVI. HeiligenkreuzHeiligenkreuz im Wienerwald | — | 3 |
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Sources: Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research — the higher-education programme register (Hochschulen, Studiengänge) on data.gv.at, CC BY 4.0; student numbers from Statistik Austria, “Studierende an öffentlichen Universitäten nach Uni”, CC BY 4.0.
Citizenship, degree-type, field and graduation figures: Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF) — “Studierende öffentliche Universitäten”, “ordentliche Studien und begonnene Studien öffentliche Universitäten” and “ordentliche Studienabschlüsse öffentliche Universitäten”, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), datasource: data.gv.at. Changes: summed across sex and field, rounded to whole numbers, shares calculated and field names given in English by CollegeMatcher.