Around 28,000 people study at the University of Innsbruck, making it one of the largest universities in Austria alongside the University of Vienna and the University of Graz. Every year, more than 4,000 students start a new degree program. Approximately the same number complete their studies at the university each year. Around 4000 courses are offered in the various subjects each academic year.
Programs
The university sees itself as a comprehensive university and covers a wide range of subjects with about 150 programs in 16 faculties: from architecture to zoology.
The university offers 41 bachelor's degree programs including teacher training programs, 60 master's degree programs, 4 diploma programs and 26 PhD/doctoral degree programs (as of the academic year 2022/23) in the fields of architecture, humanities, natural sciences, law, social sciences and economics, as well as theology and technical sciences.
For the bachelor's degree programs in architecture, biology, computer science, pharmacy, psychology, economics, the teacher training programs, the diploma program in international economics, and the master's degree programs in psychology, pharmaceutical sciences, and peace and conflict studies, special admission regulations apply prior to general admission. However, admission procedures are currently suspended for a majority of these studies.
Many studies can be supplemented with freely selectable packages on a wide variety of specializations such as digitalization, sustainability, media or corporate communications. A two-semester extension study program can be used to expand subject-specific competencies thematically. Currently, the university offers extension studies in entrepreneurship, computer science and scientific computing.
The Digital Science Center (DiSC), founded in 2019, teaches students digital skills. These range from programming languages to skills in data management and analysis to non-technical aspects of digitization.
After the separation of the Faculty of Medicine in 2004, medical studies are offered at the Medical University of Innsbruck.
In October 2021, a controversy arose about a Peace Studies course. As a result, the university management declared that, despite the name Master's program, it was not a regular master program, but an extraordinary course on peace, development, security and international conflict transformation.
Since 2022, a regular master's program in Peace and Conflict studies is taught at the university. In 2023, Rina Alluri was inaugurated as the new UNESCO Chair of Peace Studies.
Student representation
The Austrian Students' Association (ÖH) is the legal representation of all students in Austria. All students are automatically members of the ÖH and pay a fee of 21,20 Euro (incl. 0,70 Euro for insurance) per semester (WS2022/2023), which is collected together with the tuition fee by the study department of the university.
Tuition fee
Regular students with EU/EEA/CH citizenship and students of equal status who are admitted to a bachelor's, diploma, master's or doctoral program pay only the ÖH fee at the beginning of their new studies. After exceeding the non-contributory period of study, a tuition fee of 363.36 euros (A, EU/EEA, CH) or for third-country nationals 726.72 euros per semester is charged.
Buildings
The university buildings are spread across the city and there is no university campus as such. The most important locations are:
- Theology faculty was opened 1562 as a Jesuit School in 1766 and the university used buildings from the Jesuit church in the Leopoldsaal (the original university).
- In 1924, main building and the university library opened.
- 1969 the scientific faculty and the construction faculty in Hotting west was opened.
- 1976 construction began on "Geiwi tower" for the former Philosophy faculty, an addition to the main building.
- 1997 The Social Science faculty (built in the former Fenner barracks) was opened.
- 2012 Center of Chemistry and Biomedicine was opened.
- 2023 Ágnes-Heller-House was opened.
- Several university clinics of the medical university in the area became Tyrolian national hospitals.
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Points of interest
- Alpengarten Patscherkofel, the university's alpine garden atop Patscherkofel
- Botanischer Garten der Universität Innsbruck, the university's botanical garden
Nobel laureates
- Anton Zeilinger (Physics 2022)
- Victor Franz Hess (Physics 1936)
- Hans Fischer (Chemistry 1930)
- Adolf Windaus (Chemistry 1928)
- Fritz Pregl (Chemistry 1923)
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Fritz Pregl.jpg|Fritz Pregl
Windaus.jpg|Adolf Windaus
Hans Fischer (Nobel).jpg|Hans Fischer
Hess.jpg|Victor Franz Hess
A. Zeilinger (cropped).jpg|Anton Zeilinger
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Notable faculty
- Clemens August Andreae, professor and economist
- Andreas Benedict Feilmoser, theologian
- Walter Guggenberger, Austrian civil servant and politician
- Maria Luise Thurmair, hymnwriter
- Alexander van der Bellen, President of Austria
- Josef Hoop, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (1928-1945)
- Herbert Willi (born 1956) composer
- Armin Wolf, journalist
- Matthias Strolz, founder and first chairman of the political party NEOS
- Ivo Sanader, ex-prime Minister of Croatia
- Alois Negrelli, engineer that developed the Suez Canal.
- Günther Rupprechter, head of the Institute of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
- Johann Baptist Metz, theologian
Victims of political persecution and terror
- Ludwig Wahrmund was professor of Canon Law in 1908 who was ousted from his post following critical remarks about the Catholic Church's interference in academic freedom.
- Christoph Probst (born 6 November 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee : executed 22 February 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.
- Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. (Portugalete, Biscay, Spain, 9 November 1930 – San Salvador, 16 November 1989) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian. Ignacio Ellacuría was a close friend and colleague of the scholars Ignacio Martín-Baró and Segundo Montes, all of whom were assassinated with Ellacuría by the Salvadoran army, along with three colleagues and two employees. He earned his master's degree at Innsbruck University.
- Segundo Montes, S.J. (Valladolid, Spain, 15 May 1933 – San Salvador, El Salvador, 16 November 1989) was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. Segundo Montes was a close friend and colleague of the scholars Ignacio Martín-Baró and Ignacio Ellacuría, all of whom were murdered with Montes by the Salvadoran army, along with three other colleagues and two other employees. He earned his master's degree at Innsbruck.
- Kurt von Schuschnigg (1897–1977) was Austria's chancellor and was imprisoned until 1945 after the anschluss (1938).
See also
- List of early modern universities in Europe
External links
- University of Innsbruck
- Innsbruck Medical University
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
- Innsbruck University @ The Catholic Encyclopedia