Welcome to the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna)

The following pages provide a brief overview about the university, its courses of study and its research as well as an introduction to the animal hospital.

The University of Veterinary Medicine is the only academic and research institution in Austria that focusses on the veterinary sciences and the oldest such institution in the German-speaking world.  It was founded in 1765.

Since 1996 the university campus has been located in the 21st district of Vienna.  About 1000 employees and 2300 students work on the campus, which also houses the university's animal hospital and various spin-off-enterprises and branches of business partners.

Our Mission: teaching with care, research with vision and treatment with ambition.

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Admission for studies

Dates of the aptitude test

The dates of the aptitude test for all Master's programmes (Biomedicine and Biotechnolgy, Human-Animal-Interactions, Comparative Morphology) [Link 1] are now availabe for download.

Decree of the Rectorate for the admissions restrictions applied to the Master's programmes offered by the Universtiy of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna:
Admissions restrictions applied to the Master's programmes (PDF, 50 kb) [Link 4]

Explanations of the procedure for application to study at the Vetmeduni Vienna:

Please note that only the master programmes and the PhD programmes are offered in English
The language of instruction in all other programmes (Veterinary Medicine, Equine Sciences and bachelor programme Biomedicine & Biotechnology) is German.

ECTS

European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) is a system to facilitate academic recognition of courses taken abroad.
ECTS Information [Link 8]