University of Salzburg
Host University
At its heart, Salzburg is a university city. The Paris Londron Universitie Salzburg was founded in 1622 by its namesake, Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron, and has enjoyed a long and illustrious tradition of excellence ever since.
Today, the university is comprised of four faculties with 18,000 students and around 2,800 staff members. The University of Salzburg offers 115 programs of study, some of which have been more recently established in cooperation with other universities, and a well-balanced student-to-teacher ratio.
Faculties and programs
- Biology
- Catholic Theology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Digital Communication Leadership
- Earth Sciences
- Education
- European Union Studies
- Geography
- Historical and Cultural Studies
- Language Sciences
- Law
- Law and Business
- Life Sciences
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Mathematics
- Medical Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Philological and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Sports Sciences and University Sports
- Teacher Education
- Religious Studies
- Political Science
Programs in English at the University of Salzburg
- Applied Image and Signal Processing
- Center for European Studies
- Chemistry and Physics of Materials
- Copernicus Master in Digital Earth
- Digital Communication Leadership
- Ecology and Evolution
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Innovation and Management Tourism
- Medical Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Philosophy
- Political Science – Integration and Governance (POSIG)
- Psychology
Mozarteum
The Mozarteum University Salzburg
In 1841, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, a group of middle-class citizens founded the Cathedral Music Association and the Mozarteum. With this they intended to give added momentum to musical life in Salzburg by organizing concerts, and also they wanted to ensure that there were enough young instrumentalists for the church services in Salzburg Cathedral. In 1870 the International Mozarteum Foundation was founded to encourage young talented musicians, and in 1881 it took over the Mozarteum Public Music School.
In 1914 the Mozarteum was recognized as a Conservatory under public law; in 1922 it was nationalized for financial reasons, and in 1939 it was transformed into the Reichshochschule Mozarteum. At the end of the Second World War the Mozarteum was temporarily continued under the title ‘Music High School’. In 1953 the Music High School became an academy and from 1970 it was known as the Mozarteum Academy of Music and Performing Art in Salzburg. In 1998, as a result of the reform of Austrian universities, the former academy of music became the now renowned Mozarteum Universität Salzburg.
Special courses in collaboration with prestigious European universities
Bachelor’s degree course programs, such as engineering, held in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich or law and business have been introduced to meet new economic and social demands. The master’s degree course “European Union Studies” is a new feature combining disciplines such as politics, history, and law. Students therefore now have the opportunity to obtain essential additional qualifications to meet the demands of an ever-changing employment market. Many institutions of the Paris Lodron University are accommodated in buildings located in the old town (Altstadt) of Salzburg.
In 2017 a new laboratory building for scientific/technical disciplines was opened in the Science and Technology Hub of the University of Salzburg. Students of engineering and materials sciences as well as those of the International Master’s Program in Chemistry and Physics of Materials find outstanding study conditions here. The disciplines of computer science, geoinformatics Z_GIS and the Center for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) also are in the Science and Technology Hub. International cooperation of the University of Salzburg build relationships on all continents. To increase its international activities, the University of Salzburg primarily make use of education and research programs of the European Union. Cooperation with more than 80 partner universities facilitates the exchange of teaching staff as well as of students. 34 percent of the students enrolled come from other countries outside the EU.
Updated: 09/05/2023 10:02AM