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Austria has 18 public universities, twelve of which are research universities (Wissenschaftliche Universitäten) and six are universities of arts (Universitäten der Künste). Since 1999, private universities have been authorised. By 2003, six (very small) private universities — all not-for-profit — had been accredited. 177,000 students were enrolled in the research universities, and 7,500 in the universities for arts, in 2001–02, but no figures were available for the private universities. At present, there is no division into undergraduate and graduate studies. There are only a small number of bachelor’s (Bakk.) programmes.
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Pechar, H., Klepp, C. (2004). Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education. In: Schwarz, S., Westerheijden, D.F. (eds) Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2797-0_2
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