41 public universities in Austria in 2026

Founded in 1692, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public institution training artists, architects and conservators on its historic Schillerplatz campus.

Vienna's BFI Fachhochschule focused on finance, management and IT with a strong international outlook.

Austrian university dedicated to health professions: nursing, physiotherapy and health sciences.

Styrian university of applied sciences with no tuition fees: design, media, health, engineering and business in Graz.

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences: technology, media, health, business and design education since 1995.

Austria's largest university of applied sciences: four campuses, 60+ programmes in engineering, business, health and media.

Vienna Chamber of Commerce's university of applied sciences, a leader in management, communication and journalism.

University of applied sciences in Krems renowned for its international profile in business, health and life sciences.

Innsbruck's Entrepreneurial School®: management, technology and social sciences with a strong international dimension.

Vienna's leading practice-oriented engineering school: electronics, computing, data and sustainable technologies.

Linz's public arts university, training artists, designers and architects with a strong focus on experimental and digital creation.

Vienna's world-renowned public arts university, training artists, architects and designers across fine arts, media arts and transdisciplinary practices.

The largest economics and business university in Central and Eastern Europe, WU Vienna educates some 20,000 students on an award-winning campus.

Founded in 1669, the University of Innsbruck is Tyrol's comprehensive university, with some 28,000 students across 16 faculties.

Europe's only state university dedicated entirely to academic continuing education, serving working professionals from its campus in Krems.

Founded in 1585, the University of Graz is one of Austria's oldest universities, educating some 30,000 students across all major disciplines.

Carinthia's public university founded in 1970, the University of Klagenfurt is renowned for computer science, economics and the humanities.

Founded in 1765, Vetmeduni Vienna is the oldest veterinary school in the German-speaking world and Austria's only university of veterinary sciences.

Founded in 1840, Montanuniversität Leoben is Austria's public technical university for raw materials, metallurgy, materials science and recycling.

Graz's public university of music and performing arts, renowned for historically informed performance and contemporary artistic practice.

Founded in 1817, the mdw in Vienna is one of the world's largest and most renowned universities of music and performing arts.

Vienna's public university founded in 1872, dedicated to natural resources, agriculture, environment and the life sciences.

Austrian public university re-established in 1962 in Salzburg, educating some 18,000 students across law, sciences, humanities and theology.

Graz Fachhochschule founded by the Chamber of Commerce, focused on IT technologies and business.