Master
Molecular Biotechnology
full-time
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This natural sciences degree program provides a broad practical training in medical biotechnology. Molecular biological techniques are used to research causes, diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer. In addition to applications in the medical field, molecular biotechnology is also used in the development of vaccines and active pharmaceutical ingredients. With the help of genetic engineering, cells are manipulated in such a way that they produce therapeutic proteins such as insulin and vaccines. As a graduate, you will be a biotechnological generalist with entrepreneurial skills and as a scientific/technical assistant you will be active in research and development.
Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences (BSc)
Tuition fee per semester:
€ 363,361
+ ÖH premium + contribution2
Application winter semester 2025/26
01. January 2025 - 16. March 2025
60
1 Tuition fees for students from third countries € 727,- per semester. Details on tuition fees can be found in the general fee regulations.
2 for additional study expenses (currently up to € 83,- depending on degree program and year)
Your strengths lie in biology, chemistry and mathematics. You are interested in natural sciences, medicine and their related technologies. This includes bioinformatics. With a strong spirit of innovation you question existing applications. You want to develop them further and discover new technologies. You want to apply your manual skills in the laboratory to help people. You are a structured thinker and like to examine things extremely closely and you have the patience to take the many necessary steps to reach your findings. You are aware that alone you can achieve a lot, and in a team you can achieve everything. The fact that English is the language of life sciences awakens your linguistic ambition.
Sharing is good, however, not your lab space, please. You are guaranteed your own.
What you learn here is crucial to solving global problems.
Going abroad for an internship or a job: this is the next logical step when studying with us.
You need a general university entrance qualification, proven by
or a relevant professional qualification with additional examinations.
Limited higher education entrance qualification
In addition to an essay on a general topic (German), the following compulsory subjects for university degree programs are required for admission according to StudBerG:
Information can be found on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
Limited higher education entrance qualifications for one of the following university degree programs are recognized as admission requirements. This is based on the subject areas and limited higher education entrance qualifications defined by the University of Vienna:
Relevant professional qualification with additional examinations
Proof of the additional examinations must be provided at the beginning of the semester in which lectures are held that require mastery of the subject matter of the respective additional examination.
The required language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is at least
Applicants may require legalization of documents from countries other than Austria in order for them to have the evidential value of domestic public documents. Information on the required legalizations can be found here in PDF format.
For documents that are neither in German nor English, a translation by a sworn and court-certified interpreter is required. Your original documents should have all the necessary legalization stamps before translation so that the stamps are also translated. The translation must be firmly attached to the original document or a legalized copy.
As part of your online application, upload scans of your original documents including all required legalization stamps. For documents not issued in German or English, scans of the corresponding translations must also be uploaded. The head of the study program decides on the equivalence of international (higher) education qualifications. Therefore, your documents can only be checked as part of the ongoing application process.
Your path to studying at FH Campus Wien begins with your registration on our application platform. In your online account, you can start your application directly or activate a reminder if the application phase has not yet started.
There are 60 places available each year on the Bachelor's degree program Molecular Biotechnology. The ratio of study places to applicants is currently approx. 1:4.
After completing your online application, you will receive an email with information on the next steps. This email confirms that your application has been successful and entitles you to take the written entrance test. Please note that you will receive an invitation to the written entrance test after the application deadline at the earliest.
Important: The application documents will be checked for completeness. Applicants with incomplete applications will not be considered for the admission procedure. We ask for your understanding that during the application phase, email inquiries can only be answered to a limited extent for organizational and time reasons.
The admission procedure consists of a written test and an interview with the admission committee.
If the application documents are fully provided and meet the admission requirements, you will be invited to participate in the first part of the admission procedure. The first part is a written admission test on the computer on site.
You will complete a multiple choice test to assess your basic knowledge of (molecular) biology, mathematics and chemistry and test your ability to think logically. Test content: The test covers knowledge based on general secondary school (AHS) text books and general knowledge. Questions will cover the basics of mathematics and chemistry (AHS upper level knowledge) and basic knowledge of cell biology. Botany and zoology are not relevant.
For the written admission test, which takes place at the main location of the FH Campus Wien, your personal presence in Vienna is required.
After positive completion of the written admission test, you will be invited to the second part of the admission procedure, which is planned as an online interview.
An average of 120 applicants are invited to this phase of the admission procedure. The focus is on motivation, performance behavior, problem solving, ability to reflect, understanding of the profession, etc. The interview will be conducted with an online meeting tool.
The test and the interview are scored and ranked.
Criteria
The criteria for acceptance are based solely on performance. The geographical origin of the applicant or even a re-application has no influence on the admission decision. The admission requirements must be met in all cases. Applicants are evaluated according to the following weighting system:
The admission committee (which comprises, among others, the head of the academic section and representatives of the teaching staff) awards places to the applicants who score highest in the tests. The process as a whole and all test and assessment results from the admission procedure are documented in a transparent and verifiable manner.
Participation in the selection process is mandatory and cannot be made up for on a separate date.
Waiting List
Based on the number of points achieved in the selection process, you will also be placed on the waiting list. If after the selection process you are put on the waiting list, depending on the number of people who refuse acceptance and the number of places available, it is possible that you will be offered a place in the degree program for the current winter semester. This usually takes place at very short notice and cannot be determined in advance. We ask for your understanding that for organizational reasons no information can be given about your current place on the list and you will be informed immediately if you are offered a place in the degree program.
Rejection by the Degree Program
If you receive a rejection after the selection process, you can reapply for the next winter semester as soon as the application window is open. You will have to apply online again, resubmit all the necessary documents and go through the entire selection process again.
Acceptance
You will be informed by email about the acceptance for a place in the degree program. You will be sent the education and training contract and various regulations by email. You must sign and return the contract by the specified deadline in order to secure and accept your place in the degree program. The invoice for the tuition fee will be sent to you separately from the accounting department. This may take some time. The timetable is expected to be activated one to two weeks BEFORE the start of the semester. All other study-relevant information will either be sent to you by email or you will be given the information during the starting event at the beginning of the academic year.
Rejection by Applicants
If you do not want to or cannot accept your place at the university, we ask you to please inform the office of the degree program as soon as possible via biotechnologie@fh-campuswien.ac.at. Your place will then be assigned to the next in line. Rejection or withdrawal from the education and training contract are only accepted in writing.
Application winter semester 2025/26: 1st January to 16th March 2025
Written admission test: expectedly calendar week 14, 2025
Interviews: expectedly calendar weeks 17/18, 2025
Perhaps your qualifications exceed our admission requirements, you are interested in the possibility of joining the program at a higher semester or you hold a degree from a university abroad?
Shortening the Duration of Studies
For applicants who have a certain amount of knowledge relevant to the course, there is the possibility to start directly in the 3rd semester AFTER passing relevant additional exams.
Under certain conditions, there is the possibility that graduates of the HTL for Chemistry/Rosensteingasse (biochemistry and molecular biotechnology) as well as the private HTL for food technology can enter the third semester directly by means of additional exams and depending on the availability of places in the degree program in the 3rd semester.
The timely submission of the application documents and participation in the admission process is mandatory.
Changing Your Degree Program
Applicants who want to change or are changing their degree program with their application must submit all report cards and certificates in the course of the application. Any crediting of exams must be checked individually and primarily have no effect on the admission procedure.
You will study and conduct research in state-of-the-art lecture rooms and laboratories. In addition, your education and research will benefit from our close partnerships with the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. We have built a strong international network that offers you the opportunity to complete an internship or to study at prestigious universities such as King's College or Imperial College in London, which are among the top 10 universities in the world. You can undertake an internship in one of our many R&D projects which will give you the opportunity to experience application-oriented research first-hand as well as the chance to make valuable contacts for your future career. Contact to job-related topics is also guaranteed at our Campus Lecture evenings, which are open to all and feature contributions from prominent experts in fields related to the degree program.
Through your practice-oriented education, you will learn to develop and apply new recombinant active pharmaceutical agents and vaccines as well as stem-cell and gene therapies for the treatment of diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer's disease. Recombinant proteins are produced biotechnologically by inserting foreign DNA into cells so that they then produce the desired proteins. The focus of the degree program is the cell: you will learn the key cell-signaling pathways and processes in detail. Your main interest is the genome.
You will learn how this important part of the cell, which contains the complete genetic information of an organism, works in both healthy and diseased systems. In this degree program we guarantee you a place in a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art laboratory and the opportunity to participate in an R&D project of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology or a partner institution as part of an extensive internship in research areas such as allergy research, cell-based test systems and signaling pathways of the cell.
The degree program combines comprehensive expertise in natural sciences and technology with quality and process management. You will enjoy an intensive process-oriented education. Your highly application-oriented education will be rounded out by the fundamentals of economics and law, laboratory courses and seminars.
Semester dates
Summer semester 2024: 12th Februar 2024 to 26th July 2024
Winter semester 2024/25: 4th September 2024 to 31st January 2025
Number of teaching weeks
18 per semester
Times
Monday to Friday all day; some vocational subjects also held on Saturday
Electives
Selection and participation according to available places. There may be separate admission procedures.
As a graduate of this program, a wide range of occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out here where your path can take you.
Your will receive an education for a growth market. Biotechnology is a key technology of the 21st century that is booming internationally as well as in Austria. In recent years Vienna has become a dynamic center for life sciences. Your career will benefit from the excellent professional reputation of your university and from the practical skills and social skills that you will also acquire during your studies. There is a high demand for well-trained experts with a strong scientific background who can immediately contribute to the success of their company. In addition to excellent career opportunities, a wide range of possible activities will be open to you. Immediately after graduation, you can work as a scientific and technical assistant primarily in research departments and laboratories at global pharmaceutical companies, universities or hospitals. With your extensive know-how of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), you are an ideal candidate to take on responsibility in project management and quality assurance in the production of medications.
We work closely with numerous biotech companies, universities, such as the University of Vienna, and research institutes and have a strong international network. This guarantees you strong contacts for your internship, a semester abroad, participation in research and development activities and your future employment. You can find information about our cooperation activities and much more at Campusnetzwerk. It’s well worth visiting the site as it may direct you to a new job or interesting event held by our cooperation partners!
Head of Department Applied Life Sciences; Head of Degree Programs Molecular Biotechnology
+43 1 606 68 77-3501
bea.kuen@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Favoritenstraße 222, F.3.23
1100 Vienna
+43 1 606 68 77-3500
+43 1 606 68 77-3509
biotechnologie@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Office hours
Monday – Friday: 09:00 – 12:30
Monday: 16:00 – 17:00
Tuesday: 16:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 16:00 – 17:00
Information on application and admission
biotechnologie@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Assistance
janina.agis-blei@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3505
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Head of Research Center Molecular Biotechnology; Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Deputy Head of Degree Programs Molecular Biotechnology; Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Researcher
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