Applications are now open for admission for the academic year 2025/26!
Join us in September 2025 for a one-year or two-year MA degree in Historical Studies, choosing between the late antique, medieval and early modern, or general history track, or an MA in Museum Studies, studying in collaboration with the Wien Museum. Almost all our MA students receive tuition fee wavers and monthly stipends. PhD applicants can choose between the PhD in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, or in Comparative History for a four-year, fully funded degrees.
Our students study in close collaboration with one or two faculty members as well as taking courses across our fields of study. Topics studied by recent MA graduates have ranged from third-century Athens, to high-medieval philosophy, through a key focus on the Ottoman Empire, and modern and contemporary Eastern Europe. We encourage interdisciplinary study, with particular interests in art history, literary studies and the History of Science.
Students benefit from living and working in the academic environment of Vienna. As well as being the most-livable city in the world, the Department of Historical Studies colloborates with universities in Vienna and Austria (for example with the Eurasian Transformations Cluster of Excellence), and museums across the city. Vienna's libraries and archives provide our students with the resources to complete their research, whilst we also maintain strong research and teaching relationships with the Open Society Archive.
Follow the links below for the program specific requirements or click here for our general admission requirements, including upcoming deadlines!
- MA in Historical Studies (one year)
- MA in Historical Studies (two years)
- MA in Museum Studies (two years)
- MA in Women's and Gender History, “MATILDA” (two years)
Virtual Open Day, Wednesday September 18
Join us online on Wednesday, September 18 to hear us talk in person about our department and programs, and to ask all your questions!
* We are very disappointed to confirm that we cannot admit students to our Cultural Heritage program in 2025/26. However, we are also pleased and proud to have so many wonderful faculty and students working in this field. Their research and community activities inspire and engage us all. We continue to offer courses in the field of cultural heritage, spanning geographies and chronologies, to students in our department and across the university.