The TU Vienna has more than 28.000 students and around 4.500 employees and is therefore Austria’s biggest research and educational institution in the area of natural sciences and technologies.
According to the motto “technology for people” research and education are now nearly going on for 200 years at the TU Vienna. The self-conception as researching university results in building up profile primary in research. The offer in teaching regarding the content also derives out of this profile. The TU Vienna provides therefore foundational and application-oriented teaching at a high level of standards and quality. Its graduates as well as its researchers contribute considerably to the transfer of knowledge and technology to the society and economics. Therefore the TU Vienna contributes essentially to securing the international competitiveness and the innovative capacity of Austria as a research location.