University of Klagenfurt

The University of Klagenfurt is a public university in Klagenfurt, the capital of Carinthia. It is the largest research and higher education institution in the state. The campus sits in the Lakeside District, next to the Lakeside Science and Technology Park, and is a short walk from the historic city centre and the east bay of the Wörthersee. The university is 30 km from the Slovenian and 60 km from the Italian border, and it supports bi- and multilingualism, especially in the context of the Slovenian minority in Carinthia.

The institution was founded in 1970 as an Educational Science College. It became the University of Educational Sciences in 1975 and was relaunched as the University of Klagenfurt in 1993. It adopted the name Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in 2004. A fourth faculty, technical sciences, was added in 2007. The university has four faculties: Arts, Humanities and Education; Management, Economics and Law; Social Sciences; and Technical Sciences. Its research priority areas are Networked and Autonomous Systems and Multiple Perspectives in Optimization. The Humans in the Digital Age initiative started in 2019.

Teaching is organised through the four faculties. The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education covers languages, history, philosophy, cultural analysis, educational sciences and teacher education, with a focus on multilingualism and intercultural education. The Faculty of Management, Economics and Law has a focus on business management and is AACSB accredited. The Faculty of Social Sciences includes geography, media and communications, psychology, and society, knowledge and politics. The Faculty of Technical Sciences covers informatics, information technology and technical mathematics, and includes a Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.

The national register lists 82 programmes of all kinds and languages, including 20 English-taught degree programmes: 6 Bachelor's and 14 Master's. Subjects taught include Education, Digital Media, Social Sciences and Psychology, Cultural Studies, Business Administration, Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, International Business, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Languages and Linguistics.

For international students, applications go directly to the university, which sets its own application period and entrance procedure. Students from outside the EU/EEA need a Residence Permit for Students. At public universities, EU/EEA and Swiss students pay no tuition within the standard duration plus two semesters, while most other students pay a per-semester fee. Every student pays the student union fee.