University for Continuing Education Krems

The University for Continuing Education Krems (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, also known as Danube University Krems) is an Austrian public university founded in 1994 in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria. It presents itself as the only state-funded university in Europe to specialise exclusively in postgraduate continuing education. Its programmes are designed for working professionals: master's degrees, certified university courses and short programmes in fields such as medicine and health management, law, education and new media, social sciences, psychology, and public management and economics. Since 2015 it has also awarded PhDs linked to its core research areas, such as regenerative medicine and migration studies. As a distinctive public institution, it is exempt from the general Austrian tuition fee regime: each programme sets its own course fees, which are published on the relevant programme pages.