mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is among the world's largest and most renowned universities specialised in the performing arts of music, theatre and film.
 

 As an international leader for studies in music and other performing arts along with related academic disciplines since 1817, the university currently provides training to close to 3,000 students from over 70 countries in 115 degree programmes and 41 supplementary programmes run by 24 departments.

It also is the workplace of ca. 1,260 individuals and presents over 1,300 artistic, scholarly and scientific events each year (site only in German), making it Austria's largest organiser of cultural events.

Uniquely favourable student-instructor ratio

The student-instructor ratio in group- and individually taught subject areas is 4.7 students per instructor, making the mdw Austria's leading institution in this respect, as well.