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Academic degrees
What is their wording?
List of Austrian academic degrees
Multiple degrees?
Translations?
For Information ...
Academic degrees
Academic degrees are awarded to persons who have completed regular degree
(bachelor, master, diploma or doctoral) studies, a university course (in certain cases), or
a Fachhochschule programme (Fachhochschule bachelor programme, Fachhochschule
master programme or Fachhochschule diploma programme)..
What is their wording?
The degrees appear in a German (in many cases also in a Latin, in the case of
advanced master degrees only in an English) long version, and an abbreviation. All
versions are mentioned in the notice of award. The holder of a degree can use one of
these forms (>> Use of academic degrees ).
Each academic degree has a masculine and a feminine form. The feminine forms were
introduced in 1993. Female graduates to whom an academic degree was awarded in
the masculine form are now entitled to use the degree in its feminine form.
List of Austrian academic degrees
Bachelor degrees
Bakkalaureus / Bakkalaurea der K ünste
Bakk. art.
Bakkalaureus / Bakkalaurea der Naturwissenschaften
Bakk. rer. nat.
Bakkalaureus / Bakkalaurea der Philosophie
Bakk. phil.
Bakkalaureus / Bakkalaurea der Sozial- und
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Bakk. rer. soc. oec.
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Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Bakkalaureus / Bakkalaurea der technischen Wissenschaften
Bakk. techn.
Master and diploma degrees
Diplom Ingenieur / Diplom Ingenieurin
DI oder Dipl.-Ing.
Diplom-Tierarzt / Diplom-Tierärztin
Mag. med. vet.
Doktor / Doktorin der gesamten Heilkunde
Dr. med. univ.
Doktor / Doktorin der Zahnheilkunde
Dr. med. dent.
Magister / Magistra der Architektur
Mag. arch.
Magister / Magistra der Künste
Mag. art.
Magister / Magistra der Naturwissenschaften
Mag. rer. nat.
Magister / Magistra der Pharmazie
Mag. pharm.
Magister / Magistra der Philosophie
Magister / Magistra der Philosophie der Theologischen
Fakultät
Mag. phil.
Mag. phil. fac. theol.
Magister / Magistra der Rechtswissenschaften
Mag. iur.
Magister / Magistra der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Mag. rer. soc. oec.
Magister / Magistra der Theologie
Mag. theol.
Magister / Magistra des Industrial Design
Mag. des. ind.
Magister / Magistra des Rechts der Wirtschaft
Mag. iur. rer.oec.
Doctoral degrees
Doktor / Doktorin der Bodenkultur
Dr.nat.techn.
Doktor / Doktorin der gesamten Heilkunde und der
medizinischen Wissenschaft
Dr.med.univ.et
scient.med.
Doktor / Doktorin der medizinischen Wissenschaft
Dr.scient.med.
Doktor / Doktorin der montanistischen Wissenschaften
Dr.mont.
Doktor / Doktorin der Naturwissenschaften
Dr.rer.nat.
Doktor / Doktorin der Philosophie
Dr.phil.
Doktor / Doktorin der Philosophie einer KatholischTheologischen Fakultät
Doktor / Doktorin der Rechtswissenschaften
Dr.phil.fac.theol.
Doktor / Doktorin der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Dr.rer.soc.oec.
Doktor / Doktorin der technischen Wissenschaften
Dr.techn.
Doktor / Doktorin der Theologie
Dr.theol.
Doktor / Doktorin der Veterinärmedizin
Dr.med.vet.
Doktor / Doktorin der Zahnmedizin und der medizinischen
Wissenschaft
Dr.med.dent.et
scient.med.
Dr.iur.
Advanced Master degrees
Master in European Studies
Master of Advanced Studies
M.E.S
MAS
Master of Arts
MA
Master of Business Administration
MBA
Master of Business Law
M.B.L.
Master of International Business
MIB
Master of Laws
LL.M.
Master in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies
MPOS
Master of Public Health
MPH
Master of Science
MSc
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Academic degrees in Fachhochschule programmes
Bakkalaureus (FH) / Bakkalaurea (FH)
Bakk. (FH)
Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) / Diplom-Ingenieurin (FH)
Dipl.Ing. (FH)
Magister (FH) / Magistra (FH)
Mag. (FH)
Multiple degrees?
If a student meets the requirements for the multiple acquisition of an academic degree
such degree will be awarded several times. However, an awarding ceremony takes
place only when the degree is awarded for the first time. The same academic degree
can be used, however, only once.
Example: A student who completed her studies of physics has acquired the academic
degree of "Magistra der Naturwissenschaften" . She embarks upon the studies of
chemistry as her second studies and thus acquires the academic degree of "Magistra
der Naturwissenschaften" for a second time. After her second studies she may call
herself "Mag. rer. nat. Mag. rer. nat. N.N.".
Translations?
The notices of award issued in German and in English. The academic degrees,
however, are not translated. Please note the following equivalences:
Bakkalaureatsgrade – Bachelor; Magistergrade – Master; Diplomgrade – Master;
Doktorgrade – Doctor; Mastergrade – Advanced Master; academic degrees in
Fachhochschule programmes – like at universities, but with the supplement (FH).
A degree holder may have the notice of award translated into another language. We
recommend to contact an authorised translator.
For Information ...
... on general questions of academic degrees please contact
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