FH Campus Wien
- Headquarter: Vienna
- Federal states: Vienna
- Industry sectors: Education, research & development
- Status: Recertified
2001
Founding year
645
Employees
With over 8,000 students, the FH Campus Wien is the largest university of applied sciences in Austria. In departments Applied Nursing Science, Applied Life Sciences, Building and Design, Health Sciences, Social Work, Engineering as well as Administration, Economics, Security, Politics, offer a choice of more than 60 Bachelor’s and Master ‘s degree programs as well as master courses in part-time and full-time form. The FH Campus Wien has five locations in Vienna and six further cooperative study locations: the Vinzentinum location Vienna as well as the schools for general health and nursing sciences of the Vienna Health Group Campus Donaustadt, Campus Favoriten and Campus Floridotower and the Nursing Academy of the Barmherzige Brüder. Training cooperations exist with the Vienna Health Group, the Fonds Soziales Wien, the Vinzenz Group, the Nursing Academy of the Barmherzige Brüder, the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and the Federal Ministry of Finance. The large network of the FH Campus Wien includes around 150 Austrian and foreign universities and colleges as well as industrial companies, businesses, associations, public institutions and schools. R&D projects of the degree programs and external contract research are currently handled by nine subject-specific competence centres. Moreover, recognised certifications are evidence of the high standards of quality management at the FH Campus Wien. The Campus Wien Academy of the University of Applied Sciences offers continuing education and training in the form of seminars, modules and certificate programs.
Products and services
The FH Campus Vienna offers services in three areas:
1) Teaching
The goal of the university is to offer students an environment within which they can find professional conditions for successful studies. This is why it pays special attention to teaching and learning, to aligning them in a \\\”study-oriented” manner and to continuously strengthening them at the FH. In the Departments of Applied Nursing Science, Applied Life Sciences, Building and Design, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Technology and Administration, Economics, Security and Politics, there is a range of more than 60 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes as well as Master’s degree programmes, part-time and full-time, to choose from.
2) Research and development
Research at the FH Campus Vienna is aimed at the major technological, economic and social developments and future topics that will shape and change our world in the years to come. The FH develops degree programmes in diversified disciplines which in turn generate application-oriented, interdisciplinary research projects that are socially and economically relevant and can thrive in an international sphere. Based on this and derived from the future topics, the FH builds up subject-specific competence centres for research and development and makes use of potentials unified under one roof, networks them and bundles the skills.
3) Further education
Campus Wien Academy is part of the FH Campus Vienna and focuses on advanced and further training. It expands the range of courses offered by the University of Applied Sciences through innovative advanced and further education formats at an academic level. In addition, it offers in-house further education and advice. In the context of lifelong learning, Campus Wien Academy identifies the prerequisites relating to the labour market and offers seminars, modules and certificate programmes in response.
