The University of Vienna is a public research university in Vienna, Austria, founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365. It is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation, and with around 85,000 students and about 11,000 employees it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Europe, offering 185 degree programmes as of the 2024-2025 academic year. It is associated with 17 Nobel Prize laureates and has counted among its scholars Erwin Schrodinger, Karl Popper, Sigmund Freud and Gregor Mendel.
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What happened to the medical faculty of the University of Vienna?
The 2002 reform split the whole medical faculty off as the Medical University of Vienna.
As part of the university reform of 2002, the whole of the medical faculty was separated into the new Medical University of Vienna. The same reform returned full legal capacity to the University of Vienna after more than 250 years of being largely under governmental control, and the number of its faculties and centers was increased to 18.
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The University of Vienna (Austrian German: Universität Wien, Austrian German: [univɛrsiˈtɛːt ˈviːn]; Latin: Universitas Viennensis) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria.
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The University of Vienna (Austrian German: Universität Wien, Austrian German: [univɛrsiˈtɛːt ˈviːn]; Latin: Universitas Viennensis) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria.
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12 March 1365
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The University of Vienna is a public research university in Vienna, Austria, founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365.
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