Tuition-free public universities for EU/EEA students, €751.92 per semester for most others, and around 30% of students from abroad. Austria has 23 public universities and 21 universities of applied sciences with around 80 programmes taught entirely in English. Find out how admission works, what a student spends a month (around €1,300 on average) and whether you can work while you study.
Austria follows the three-cycle Bologna system:
There are also diploma programmes (Diplomstudium) – long, single-cycle degrees of 4–6 years ending with the title Magister/Magistra or Diplom-Ingenieur/in. Law, for example, is studied this way. Medicine is also a diploma programme, but it ends with the title Dr. med. univ.
The academic year starts on 1 October. The winter semester runs until the end of January, the summer semester starts on 1 March.
Austria – bachelor's programmes
Austria – integrated (single-cycle) programmes
Austria – master's programmes
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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