Klagenfurt University, a prestigious university which was founded in 1960 in the south of Austria, is a partner university of Chung-Ang University. Klagenfurt University is at the crossroads of three cultures at the Wörthersee region of Klagenfurt which is located at the bottom of Klagenfurt. Klagenfurt has about 8000 students with students from 61 different countries enrolled in the university at present with 800 staff including about 500 academic staff members. As a result, the student-staff ratio is very favorable and so there are hardly any courses where the pressure of numbers leads to students being excluded.
How to apply
All the conditions needed to apply for Klagenfurt university is on the university’s webpage(http://dia.uni-klu.ac.at/kondi_e.htm), but there are certain requirements which are mandatory.
- An IBT TOEFL of over 79~80 or PBT TOEFL of over 550 or an IELTS score of over 6.0
- Application for admission
- Key data(http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/bib/eng/bilder/key_data2.pdf)
- Certificates of all courses taken at home university including results.
- A copy of your school-leaving certificate or a copy of your high school diploma
- An online database if an accommodation is needed (http://www.housing.oead.at/index_e.asp)
German courses
Klagenfurt university provides a wide range of German courses so that anyone in almost any circumstance can have the chance to learn German. There is an intensive course which has all the course levels with each class having a maximum student number of 12. It is intensive because they have twenty-four, 45 minute lessons each week. Also there are the Semester courses which are available so that German can become a foreign and second language. Also, for students whose timetable just cannot fit these classes in, there are the individual courses where you can pick the course length, dates and even the contents. Lastly, there is a business course which aims in linguistic training of the employees of companies. For this course, one can choose the course place, dates, contents and intensity.
Tuition fees
You have to pay a tuition fee of € 363.36 and a student fee of €16.86 per semester. When admission or re-registration is completed during the extended-deadline period, tuition fees are increased 10 %
Expenses
The following table should give you an idea of the average cost of living for students in Austria. The figures may vary considerably depending on your personal lifestyle and should only be taken as a guideline.
| Accommodation | from EUR 220,-- |
| Food | from EUR 200,-- |
| Personal expenses | from EUR 200,-- |
| Monthly expenses | from EUR 620,-- |
As for accommodation on campus, there is Österreichische Studentenförderungsstiftung (Neues Uniheim). Its double rooms cost 225 EUR and single rooms cost 299 EUR per month, with a deposit of 630 EUR and 778 EUR, respectively, which will be refunded when you move out. It has many facilities including study room, computer room with internet, internet connections in all rooms, common room, party room, table tennis, bike racks, parking spaces, 6 communal kitchens, coin operated washing machines, TV room, cable/satellite TV connections, TV connection in rooms, and 2 rooms adapted for disabled.
Life at Klagenfurt
In Austria the cafeteria is called “mensa” and the system is similar to CAU. There are a few meals that change regularly and some meals that stay the same. These usually sell Austrian traditional food. They cost about 4 Euros, which is approximately 7000, but it is actually cheap in Austrian standards. There are many different stores inside the campus for students’ convenience and there isn’t really a marked boundary on and off campus, so basically you can get your hands on most of the things you’d expect from a town.
Whang Joon-yong
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