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[Translate to English:] (c) Raimo Rudi Rumpler

Financial Times European Business School Ranking: WU at place 41

In the most recent Financial Times European Business School Ranking, WU placed 41st out of 95 ranked European business schools, up three notches from last year’s result. WU already achieved excellent…

World's Largest Blockchain Competence Center approved in Vienna

Austria started developing blockchain expertise at a very early stage. The COMET Center (K1) Austrian Blockchain Center (ABC) aims to bundle comprehensive, interdisciplinary competencies in basic and…

Record number of international exchange students at WU

With a total of 612 incoming students from 61 different countries, this winter semester sets a record for the number of international students starting an exchange semester or year at WU. WU’s…

Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2018: Global Executive MBA back in the top 50

The WU Executive Academy’s Global Executive MBA program is back in the top 50 of the Financial Times Executive MBA (EMBA) Ranking, the most important annual MBA ranking worldwide. The program climbed…

QS Business Masters Rankings: Two WU master’s programs in the top 20 again

The annual World University Rankings issued by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) are among the best-known higher education rankings worldwide, alongside the THE rankings. In addition to university rankings,…

Rector welcomes first-year students to WU

WU wants to make sure that its first-semester students get off to a good start and help them to familiarize themselves with this large university. WU provides support and guidance to its…

WU at place 13 in Financial Times Global Masters in Management ranking

In the annual ranking of the world’s best degree programs in management by the renowned business newspaper Financial Times, WU remained at 13th place this year, once again securing a place among the…

WU Researchers Awarded Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Prize

WU researchers Stefan Angel, Franziska Disslbacher (both from the Department of Socioeconomics), Stefan Humer (Research Institute for Economics of Inequality), and Matthias Schnetzer (Vienna Chamber…

[Translate to English:] Neue Professoren an der WU

Two New Professors Joining WU in September

WU is pleased to welcome two new professors who are joining the ranks of WU’s research and teaching staff. Zoltán Novotny-Farkas took office as Professor of International Accounting at the Department…

Wise Women of WU: New Mentoring Program for Aspiring Women Leaders

In Austria, women are still blatantly underrepresented in top-level management positions. Supporting women who aspire to high-profile careers as business leaders is therefore a key priority for WU and…