Universities in Austria are legally bound to accept all applicants, with a few exceptions for disciplines such as medicine, art and psychology. These programs have entry exams or other admission ...

In response to ‘Europe opened the door to an invasion of mediocrities’ (15-21 March): it is not Europe’s fault if Austria is not prepared to reform its higher education system. <BR>During the last ...

The involvement of universities should be appreciated and, hopefully, many refugees have already benefited from their efforts. Also in comparison to other European countries, the Austrian University ...

Austria’s minister of education, Elisabeth Gehrer, has proposed that universities be given more control over their finances, and that their decision-making committees be streamlined. One of the ...

Austria's chancellor is offering the country as a new home for the Central European University in Budapest, after Hungarian lawmakers approved laws for tighter regulation of foreign universities.