Welcome Package
The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with its over 3,000 students from around 70 countries, numbers among the world’s largest and most renowned universities in the fields of music, performing arts, and music education. Students can choose from 115 artistic, research-oriented, and education-related programmes of study offered by a total of 25 departments at the mdw’s 9 locations around the city of Vienna.
The average student/instructor ratio of 4.5 students per instructor and an acceptance rate of 26 % ensure outstanding conditions of study for the students. With more than 1,200 university events annually, the students have abundant opportunities to gather performing experience while also ensuring the institution’s openness to a broad swath of the general public.
The best-possible training environment, quality assurance, and targeted career-building and talentpromotion measures, as well as equal opportunities and actively practiced interdisciplinarity among the arts, sciences and music education, are among the central objectives of work for and at the mdw.
Locations of the mdw
Campus at Anton-von-Webern Platz
In and Around the City
News & Events
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