Please note that the accreditation of courses in the AI curriculum is handled by the different study areas (to be found in the university studies handbook) and their respective recognition presidents.

1. Before you submit an application for recognition in accordance with § 78 UG, contact the responsible recognition presidents and obtain their advice. Find a list of the recognition presidents here. For the study area Artificial Intelligence, please fill-in the pre-check below and send it with the certificates and course description to office(at)ai-lab.jku.at.
2. Submit your application after consultation with the responsible recognition presidents via the recognition tool AUWEA NG, opens an external URL in a new window

Please find further information in the FAQs, opens in new window section.

We have tried to combine all important information in one guideline. Please feel free to send any comments/ideas/corrections to office(at)ai-lab.jku.at in order to keep this document up-to-date and helpful.

To help you get off to a good start, we have put together the schedule for the winter and summer term. This schedule is for reference only and can be adjusted to your personal schedule. The livestreams to Vienna/Bregenz are marked in violet in the upper left corner.

Types of Courses

The program contains the following types of courses:

Each year in September, before the start of the winter term, JKU offers preparation courses in Python Programming (ASTAIBAPPPV20, opens an external URL in a new window) as well as in Mathematics (531.059, opens an external URL in a new window) for new AI students. These courses are entirely voluntary and can be booked via KUSSS.

In order to complete the AI program, students will be required to come to Linz in person at least once in order to officially enroll in the degree program. Some courses will require in-person attendance either in Linz, Bregenz or Vienna. Students are required to be physically present to take examinations either in Linz, Bregenz or in Vienna. Examinations may take place during the entire semester. The curriculum has been designed for students residing in close proximity to Linz, Bregenz or Vienna. 

Many courses in the AI program are offered at the JKU's satellite campus in Vienna and Bregenz as either a live stream or as a video conference (please check timetable).

Courses are usually offered only once a year. Starting the study program in summer term is possible. However, it will require adaption of the course of study compared to the suggested global map of study subjects which is designed for starting in winter term. We highly recommend to start the program in October.

Students can choose their Area of Specialization courses from the list in the study guide freely, i.e. from different sections. The section headlines “Computer and Data Science”, “Mathematics”, “Mechatronics”, “Live Sciences”, “Special Topics”, and “Miscellaneous” in the study guide exist merely for readability.

“Seminar in AI” (3 ECTS, 4th semester, Summer terms) and the “Practical Work in AI” (7.5 ECTS, 5th semester, Winter terms) should prepare the students for their Bachelor’s thesis (6th semester, Summer terms), although they are allowed to switch their subject again if they want. Teachers should offer these courses if they would like to supervise Bachelor students. The courses offered by different institutes will appear as different “group options” for the students in Kusss.
The Bachelor Thesis itself is formally supervised via the “Bachelor’s Thesis Seminar in AI” (9 ECTS, 6th semester, Summer terms). This course, however, is in fact offered in every term, to allow students to finish their Bachelor’s also in a Winter term.

At the beginning of October, tutor groups of first-semester students are formed during the first lecture in "KV : Lecture Series Artificial Intelligence". The tutors (higher-semester AI students) show the first-year students around the university, help them choose the right courses and give practical tips on lectures, exercises and practicals. The social aspect is not neglected either, so it is not difficult to make friends in the first few weeks with whom you can solve study problems together. Often, these friendships last throughout your studies and beyond.

Each tutorial group is assigned a mentor from among the AI professors. As soon as the tutor groups have established themselves, they visit their mentors together, who supervise the students individually during the first semester. All questions about the course of study may be addressed during these visits. Any problems that arise are solved quickly and unbureaucratically.

Here, opens an external URL in a new window you can find more answers to your questions by the Austrian Students´ Union (ÖH).

FAQs, opens an external URL in a new window for international students by the Austrian Students´ Union (ÖH).

If you have open questions regarding the AI program which are not answered in the information above or below, please feel free to contact us:

Contact email of the AI office in Linz: office(at)ai-lab.jku.at

Contact email of the AI office in Vienna: ai-wien(at)jku.at

Contact email of the AI office in Bregenz: ai-bregenz(at)jku.at

Contact email of the Student Union for Computer Science and AI: ai(at)oeh.jku.at

Please also see the webpage of the Student union, opens an external URL in a new window and their Study Guide for Artificial Intelligence, opens an external URL in a new window

You are eager to get a job in Austria? You are thinking of starting your own startup, opens an external URL in a new window?

The Austrian Business Agency, opens an external URL in a new window (ABA), the business location agency of the Austrian Ministry of Economy, is eager to help. As a government agency, ABA offers free-of-charge support and information for international students and graduates at Austrian universities. More information here, opens an external URL in a new window.