Graz University of Technology

Geschichte

The Graz University of Technology is one of five universities in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and currently comprises seven faculties. The university is a public university. It offers 18 bachelor's and 33 master's study programmes across all technology and natural science disciplines. Doctoral training is organised in 14 English-speaking doctoral schools. The university has more than 13,000 students, and approximately 2,000 students graduate every year. Science study programmes are offered in the framework of NAWI Graz together with the University of Graz.The university has some 3,300 staff. Research areas are combined in five fields of expertise. The university is one of the universities with the highest third-party funding in Austria. In the competence centre programme COMET of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, the university is the most strongly represented Austrian university. The university information system CAMPUSonline, which was developed at the university, is used by the majority of Austrian universities as well as by several other universities in the German-speaking area. Student teams from the university successfully participate in international student competitions in a variety of disciplines.