Higher education system

The higher education location of Austria unites three very important aspects: a great number of high quality tertiary education institutions in all nine federal provinces, a long academic tradition and an open-minded atmosphere for creativity and innovation. In many areas the Austrian institutions have accomplished outstanding achievements on an international level and gained high reputation.

Austria combines a long tradition in higher education with state-of-the-art research and offers six types of higher education institutions:

• 23 universities (of which 6 universities of the arts, 3 medical universities and 3 technical universities)
• 17 private universities and higher education institutions
• 21 universities of applied sciences
• 14 university colleges of teacher education