Requirement for Entry

Every prospective student has to meet at least one of the following requirements before the beginning of the study course:

1. General Qualification for University Entrance

• An Austrian certificate from a successful school leaving examination (“Maturazeugniss”) or a similar certificate from a foreign country (due to a valid agreement or nostrification).
• Other Austrian certificate attesting to the qualification for university entrance.
• Vocational Matriculation Exam

or

2. Professional Job-Related Qualification

A professional job-related qualification means a professional vocational education or job experience in a profession-related occupation. Job-related qualification is obtained by professional education or professional apprenticeship.

Professional vocational education includes:

• technical school for civil engineering technology
• technical school for carpenter
• technical school for bricklayer.

Professional apprenticeship in one of the following occupations:

• bricklayer
• carpenter
• technical tracer
• formwork constructor

Prospective students with professional vocational education and/or professional apprenticeship but with no qualification for university entrance need certificates in additional skills as per the Austrian university entrance qualification law (StudBerG) or a vocational matriculation exam.
Courses and examinations in German, Mathematics, Physics and English at a level for university qualification are needed. Prospective students with study qualification courses that do not include lessons in German have to prove their language ability by the beginning of the FH Kaernten-study courses.
The Klagenfurt University offers courses for university qualification – registration at the FH Kaernten is needed for the admission to these courses.