Career
Career opportunities in Vienna
Vienna is Austria’s most important economic centre, having banking, insurance, business services, (especially law firms), tourism, health care and manufacturing industry (electrical machinery, transportation equipment, metal products) as main economic pillars.
Major employers in Vienna include: Erste Group, IBM, OMV, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Deloitte, Siemens, Telekom Austria, Oracle, SAP.
International students have a wide range of internship opportunities to choose from in many business sectors and industries.
Life
Vienna city life
Famous for balls and classical music, Vienna is an interesting and appealing city stepped in history. Start exploring this city and visit the centre, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Everywhere you’ll go, you will admire the unique and remarkable mix of architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens.
Some of the most popular touristic attractions:
- The imperial palaces of the Hofburg and Schönbrunn
- The Sisi Museum
- The Sigmund Freud Museum
- The Museum of Applied Arts – with world-famous paintings from Gustav Klimt
- St. Stephen's Cathedral
- The Imperial Treasury (Schatzkammer)
- Modern attractions include the United Nations headquarters
In Vienna, you can relax and make promenades in many parks, including the Stadtpark, the Burggarten, or the Schlosspark at Schloss Belvedere (home to the Vienna Botanic Gardens).
Go see a play at the Burgtheater, considered one of the best theatres in the German-speaking world, or at the Vienna's English Theatre (VET). You can also attend classical concerts at world famous venues such as the Wiener Musikverein.
Take an authentic Austrian break at one of the Viennese cafés, as these have a very long and remarkable history that goes back centuries. Even if you may not like coffee so much, you will love the atmosphere. Nightlife in Vienna is not so much concentrated around clubs, you will mostly find bars, pubs and live music venues.
International atmosphere in Vienna
Vienna is one of the top touristic destinations in Europe, counting over three million visitors a year. Vienna is also one of the world’s leading hubs for international congresses and conventions and the seat of a number of international organisations, like U.N. offices. Currently Vienna is the world's third "UN city", next to New York, Geneva, and Nairobi.
Immigrant population living here include Turks, Poles, Germans and people coming from Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Weather Vienna
Vienna has four seasons, with warm summers and cold, dry winters. Spring and autumn are mild. Snow is rare, temperatures in the winter record around 3 – 4 C (38 – 40 F), but they could go about the freezing point. In the summer the average temperatures are between 24 and 33 °C (75 and 91 °F).
Universities in Vienna
The SAE Institute Vienna has been one of Austria's leading addresses for education and training in the media sector since 1987. As the European SAE Flagship Media Campus, the location in Vienna's city center offers space for a total of 800 students.
Webster Vienna Private University (WVPU) is a fully accredited university located in Vienna, Austria. Webster Vienna excels in student mentoring and research, coupled with fostering practical life skills. WVPU combines the best of American and European higher education. Founded in 1981, WVPU is the first university in Austria to offer English-only degree programs and American degrees.
WU is an international university that is very aware of its responsibility to society and the research community and acts conscientiously in all that it does. WU is all of us: the people that study here, teach, perform research, work in our administrative units, or are even just visiting our campus as guests or to attend one of our many public events.
Central European University (CEU) is a research-focused university offering a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the heart of Europe. Its ever-growing international community of students, alumni, permanent and visiting faculty and program partners enables you to challenge conventional wisdom.