St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

Fachhochschule St. Pölten
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Established 1993
Administrative staff
 Executive Board:
- Gernot Kohl
- M. Gabriela Fernandes
Staff Members:
- 266 full-time staff members
(administrators and instructors)
- approximately 587 part-time instructors
(as of December, 2014)
Students 2373
(as of November 2014)
Location Sankt Poelten / Capital of Lower Austria, Austria
Website http://www.fhstp.ac.at/en

The St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (German: Fachhochschule St. Pölten) was founded in 1993 and has approximately 2,600 students enrolled. It currently offers 17 degree programmes. Study opportunities comprise degree programmes and continuing education courses in the fields of Health and Social Sciences, Business, Mobility, and Technology. These courses are both academically and vocationally oriented and include training in business administration, law, foreign languages, and interpersonal skills.

Students can choose to acquire international certificates, such as those offered by Cisco, Microsoft, and Cambridge. Work placements seek to ensure that they gain hands-on experience in the workplace before graduation. Teaching is by lectures, laboratory work and small tutorial groups. Students carry out practical work and team projects. Among the facilities of the university are a library, state-of-the art video, computer, network and multimedia laboratories, and satellite equipment. The students run their own radio station, Campus Radio 94.4.

Study Programmes

Media & Economics

Media & Digital Technologies

Computer Science & Security

Rail Technology & Mobility

Health Sciences

Social Sciences

All study programmes are offered in the international Bachelor/Master system. As a participant in the Erasmus, Ceepus and Leonardo programmes, the university encourages students to spend a semester studying or working abroad. There is an exchange of students and lecturers with partner universities across Europe, in Latin America, and China.

General information

Foundation

Library

Foundation of the Association for the Support of the Development of the Sankt Poelten University of Applied Sciences

Start of the Telecommunication and Media degree programme

Start of the Communications and Simulation Engineering, Media Management, and Social Work degree programmes

Awarded the legal designation 'University of Applied Sciences'

Reorganization of the Telecommunications and Media degree programme into Bachelor/Master study

Start of the Social Work master's degree programme

Reorganization of the Computer Simulation, Media Management and Social Work into Bachelor/Master degree programmes. Start of IT Security, Dietetics, Physiotherapy and Media and Communications Consulting degree programmes

Sankt Poelten University of Applied Sciences celebrates 10 years

Move to the new building at Matthias Corvinus-Straße

Start of the Telecommunications and Media master's degree programme, Media Technology bachelor's degree programme (formerly Telecommunications and Media) and Communications & Simulation Engingeering bachelor's degree programme (formerly Computer Simulation)

Official opening of the new campus with Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer

Start of the Railway Infrastructure Technology degree programme

Start of the Information Security, Media Management and Social Work master's degree programme

Start of the Industrial Simulation master's degree programme

Start of the Media and Communications Consulting master's degree programme

Bachelor degree programme IT Security is now available as extra-occupational study

Start of the Digital Healthcare master's degree programme

Start of the Smart Engineering of Production Technologies and Processes bachelor's degree programme

Start of the Healthcare and Nursing bachelor's degree programme

Campus Radio 94.4

Campus Radio 94.4

The St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences offers its own radio station Campus Radio 94.4. There students learn how to run a radio station.

Campus TV

Since May 2007 the students have had the possibility to work actively at an educational television transmitter named Campus TV, C-TV for short. The contributions are all provided from projects of students in the context of the Media Technology degree programme. C-TV is broadcast via internet stream, and rather every Tuesday evening via the Vienna regional cable TV channel Okto.


SUMO educational magazine

SUMO is an educational magazine of the University of Applied Sciences. The students work on print media, get together in teams (Marketing, Editorial department, and Production) and acquire knowledge of professionals in business. A combination of theory and practical experiences seeks to ensure the quality of the magazine.

New university building

With several new degree programmes about to commence and student admissions rising continually, the University is growing fast and has had to grapple with increasing problems of space. Since the Winter Term 2007 the Sankt Pölten University of Applied Sciences has been located in a new 14,300 square metre campus building. The new university, designed by a team of Viennese architects and situated on an area of 8,560 square metres right next to the town centre, accommodate modern offices, lecture halls, studios, laboratories, and a library. The foundation stone for the new university building was laid on March 23, 2006. The mayor of Sankt Poelten, local dignitaries and representatives of the university joined in the ceremony.

Infrastructure:

Institutes

The research teams concerning content became institutes in 2007.

Coordinates: 48°12′49.89″N 15°37′55.08″E / 48.2138583°N 15.6319667°E / 48.2138583; 15.6319667

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