Graz University of Technology

Be a good team member. Student teams form a large part of the educational and personal growth of our students. You should be enthusiastic about collaborating and networking with your peers, and we love to see examples of this in your application.

Think and act like an entrepreneur. Show us how you approach unexpected results, and that you can recognize new opportunities and plan the necessary resources for seizing them. You’ll benefit most, educationally and professionally, by approaching your research and development projects with this mindset.

Have a global mindset. About one-third of our student body come from outside Austria, contributing to the environment of innovation we encourage.

Get your documents in order. For international students we require different documents depending on the program, so make sure your checklist matches the program you’re interested in. And for some master’s programs and all bachelor’s programs, we require proof of a C1 level of German proficiency.

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“We provide students with an educational environment driven by science, passion and technology, offering degree programs with future prospects, state-of-the-art teaching, projects with practical relevance, successful teamwork and studying in a global context.”

Total enrollment: 13,673 (2021)

Graz University of Technology, established in 1811, offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs with courses that are research-based and relevant to students’ future professional practice. All doctoral programs and half of the master’s programs are taught in English. A core feature of the school’s innovative learning ecosystem are the extracurricular student teams where they work hands-on with the concepts they’re studying. Students from different programs work on projects such as building a concrete canoe, navigating an avatar through an obstacle course, designing an autonomous electric car, or programming a search-and-rescue robot. Some teams take their projects to international competitions, and some decide to develop their innovations into new business ideas.

In a 2019 study, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recognized the university for creating early awareness of entrepreneurship and providing the supportive framework needed to establish it as a career path. One example is the portfolio of key entrepreneurship skills the university has created: choosing either the basic or advanced track, students learn the creative businessbuilding process and earn a certificate for “entrepreneurial acting and thinking.” Encouragement and prompt practical advice is the key, according to Christoph Adametz, deputy head of the Research and Technology House. His department helps students who have viable research results or new technology to spin their project off into a startup.

Leading by example, the university actively supports entrepreneurship not only on campus but in the wider Graz ecosystem through several channels: the Startup Garage course open to all students and staff, the Schumpeter Laboratory for Innovation that provides the space and technology for product and business development and a startup incubator for recent graduates called Science Park Graz. EET - Efficient Energy Technology and its solar power storage system, SolMate, is one of the more than two hundred projects to come out of this incubator in the twenty years since it began.

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