Minimum number of credits

If you resume your bachelor's/diploma programme within the same curriculum, the counting of the ECTS credits continues after resumption.

If you resume your studies in a succeeding curriculum, your previously obtained ECTS credits must be recognised. If you still need ECTS credits for the minimum number of credits, you have to obtain them within the remaining time.

Example: You study for two semesters and earn 12 ECTS credits during this time. You then interrupt your studies. If you resume them later, you will have a further two semesters to complete the remaining 4 ECTS credits.
 

No, semesters on leave of absence are not included in the semester count.

The date of the leave of absence is important: Only leaves of absence taken during the first four semesters for which you have enrolled will be taken into account.

Example: You have to achieve your minimum number of credits by the summer semester of 2028. The deadline for this is 31 October 2028. If you take a leave of absence in the winter semester of 2028, it will be too late. You will lose your admission to the program if you do not achieve the minimum number of credits by the deadline.

Option 1: Make use of the following offers and information:

• Support services provided by the University of Vienna for successful studying
• Psychological Counselling Service for students: counselling for study-related and personal issues
• Information for students with physical/mental impairments

Option 2: If you can claim one of the precisely defined reasons, apply for a leave of absence. Please note the application deadlines and consequences.

Option 3: You do not want to continue your studies? Close your degree programme. Before closing, inform yourself about the possible implications for re-enrolment.

Recognised academic achievements may count towards the minimum number of credits. To qualify, you must have completed the original course within the deadline set for the minimum number of credits. Furthermore, the recognition must have been approved.

You should therefore submit your application for recognition to the relevant StudiesServiceCenter in good time. If you have taken a course or examination more than once, the date of your most recent examination will be taken into account.

Information about the recognition of the additional exam Latin for the minimum number of credits can be found on the website of the Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Modern Latin (in German only).

In the bachelor’s programme in Teacher Education, you have to obtain the minimum number of credits for both teaching subjects and the pedagogical part in total. You do not have to obtain the minimum number of credits for each teaching subject separately.

If one teaching subject in your combination changes, as long as one of the two teaching subjects remains the same, the semesters continue to be counted for the new combination. Both newly obtained ECTS credits and ECTS credits recognised in due time are counting towards the ECTS credits for the new combination.

If you already obtained the minimum number of credits for the old combination, you do not have to obtain them for the new one again.

What happens if you do not achieve the 16 ECTS credits in time?

You will be excluded from this programme for 4 semesters. You are excluded from those teaching subjects for which you have already been admitted for 4 semesters.

The combination with a teaching subject for which you have been admitted for less than 4 semesters is possible. In this case the semesters that you have already completed and the ECTS credits from the previous subject combination that can be used for the new subject combination are counted.

Example 1: Interrupting after 3 semesters
You interrupt the teacher education programme after 3 semesters and resume your studies sometime later (with at least one teaching subject remaining the same). You now have 1 semester left to obtain the required 16 ECTS credits.

Example 2: Changeing one teaching subject 

You changed one teaching subject in the 3rd semester. You were not able to obtain the minimum number of credits and are excluded from the teacher education programme. You can study the teaching subject that you only studied for one semester for another 3 semesters in combination with another teaching subject to obtain the minimum number of 16 ECTS credits.

Example 3: Two teaching subjects
You were not able to obtain the minimum number of credits within 4 semesters and choose two teaching subjects that you have not yet studied. The counting of ECTS credits and semesters for the minimum number of credits starts at 0 again.

No, you do not have to obtain the minimum number of credits in complementary degree programmes. Achievements completed in complementary degree programmes are not recognised for the minimum number of credits.

If you include a teaching subject from a complementary teacher education programme in your subject combination, only the semesters from previous subject combinations of the newly combined subjects are counted.

Example: You are studying a subject combination and a complementary degree programme at the same time. After three semesters, you exchange one of your teaching subjects with the subject of your complementary degree programme. You have to obtain the minimum number of credits within the remaining fourth semester of the combination programme. 

Exams completed in the complementary degree programme count, if you completed them within the first four semesters of the combination programme and if you apply for recognition in due time.

The respective university of art is responsible for calculating the ECTS credits. They calculate your ECTS credits, taking into account, where necessary, any examinations you have taken at the University of Vienna.

It is up to the respective university of art to exclude the student from the degree programme after reviewing all information.

Please note: Only ECTS credits obtained at the University of Vienna are displayed in u:space.

Sie haben ab dem Wintersemester 2022/23 einen Austauschaufenthalt (zum Beispiel Erasmus+, Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme, Non-EU Exchange) an der Universität Wien absolviert? Wenn Sie für dasselbe Bachelor- oder Diplomstudium erneut zugelassen werden, müssen Sie die Mindeststudienleistung von 16 ECTS innerhalb von vier Semestern erbringen. Die Semester Ihres Austauschaufenthalts zählen zu diesen vier Semestern.

You were enrolled for your exchange program (for example Erasmus+, Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme, Non-EU Exchange) in the winter semester of 2022/23 or later?If you apply for admission to the the same bachelor's or diploma programme, you will need to obtain the minimum number of 16 ECTS credits within four semesters (including the semester(s) of your exchange).