Initial enrollment
at the Study Center (SC), room BEG01

Number allocation during the registration period starts at 8.30 a.m. using a QR code in the entrance area of the Study Centre. You can scan the QR code with your smartphone (free Wi-Fi connection is available). Please note that there are only a limited number of waiting numbers available!

You must bring these documents with you: 

• Passport or identity card (no driver's license!)
• Completed form of "Semester Registration"
• Declaration of commitment of mdwOnline
• If you are studying Music Education, Music Therapy, Drama Direction, Music Theatre Direction or BA Tonmeister Studies: Matura/Abitur certificate
• If you are enrolling for higher studies/courses: final certificate of bachelor or master studies

You can find the forms here.


If German is not your first language and you have a German test

• at mdw, your examiner will inform the Study Center whether you have passed or not.
• not at mdw, you need the Matura/Abitur certificate of a German-speaking high school or the certificate German B1, B2 or C1 (Goethe-Zertifikat or ÖSD-Zertifikat).

At the Study Center you will receive your payment details for the ÖH or tuition fee, your mdwCard and a PIN code for mdwOnline.

Deposit tuition and ÖH fee
Please be sure to fill in the payment reference. After two to three working days the payment should have reached the Study Center.

Students attending a paid course: Send your payment confirmation to the Study Center as discussed at the enrollment.

Redeem PIN code for mdwOnline, set up mdw mailbox
Once you have received the payment, you can activate your mdwOnline access. You no longer need the applicant account that you created for the registration for the admission exam. You will now have a student account.

This is how you activate your student account, which you can use to register for courses and exams and print out transcripts and study confirmations:

• Go to online.mdw.ac.at on a Laptop or desktop computer. (Please note: PINs cannot be entered on mobile devices.)
• Find the words “Enter your PIN code here:” and click on the “Students” link.
• A new page will appear. Enter your PIN, your eight-digit matriculation number, and your date of birth.
• You now have five minutes to choose your passwords (for your mdwOnline account, for your E-Mail account, and for WiFi access).
• You can access it at webmail.mdw.ac.at. To log into this e-mail account, enter your mdwOnline username and e-mail password.
• Your mdwOnline account is now created and you have received an @students.mdw.ac.at mailbox as well as a personal storage space on the mdw file server.
• If your address or phone number changes: Log in to mdwOnline, click on the tile "Study and home address" and enter the new data here.

Important! All messages from mdw will be sent to your mdw mail address. Check your mailbox regularly.

Activate your mdw Card (Student ID card)

When you enrol at the Studies Center, you’ll also receive your student ID card. This card can be activated three business days after payment of your tuition fee and/or ÖH dues at the earliest. To activate your card, you’ll need to insert it into one of our card validators. These have been set up at various mdw locations:

• Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna (in the corridor outside the Studies Center)
• Rennweg 8, 1030 Vienna
• Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna
• Penzinger Straße 7 – 9, 1140 Vienna

Now your mdwCard is valid (until the date printed on it). Every semester, you’ll need to revalidate your ID card at one of these validators. If your card gets stolen or lost, you can obtain a duplicate at the Studies Center upon presentation of an official theft or loss report.

The mdwCard is much more than just an ID card. By topping up your credit, you can print, copy and scan at the copying machines in the corridors. In the auditorium at Anton-Von-Webern-Platz under the stairs, there is a recharging device for this purpose. A discounted menu can be consumed in the cafeteria. The card also serves as your library card in the University library and you can only get keys to practice rooms upon represenation of your card.

The Office of the Dean of Instrumental Studies is responsible for the study areas of instrumental studies (string and wind instruments, guitar, harp and percussion instruments), keyboard instruments (piano, piano-vocal accompaniment, organ, harpsichord), church music, chamber music, new music, early music (recorder, historical performance practice).

Important: For all students in the instrumental studies and in the bachelor studies recorder, harpsichord, organ, piano and piano vocal accompaniment, it is obligatory to register for compulsory subjects by form at the beginning of the first semester.

The Office of the Dean of Music Pedagogical Studies/Coordination Center for Music Teaching is responsible for the organization and coordination of pedagogical studies, courses and cooperations in the field of music pedagogical studies.

Specific questions about pedagogical studies can also be answered by the Department of Music Pedagogical Studies (Study Center at Rennweg).

The Office of the Dean of Research Studies is responsible for the organization and coordination of academic and academic-artistic studies at mdw.

Student Legal Matters
Student legal matters are handled in the Office of the Director of Studies. Some important responsibilities of the office:

• Waiver if the admission examination, if provided in the curricula
• Determination of a deviating (admission) examination method in case of disability
• Genehmigung eines individuellen  Studiums
• Approval of individual studies
• Study time shortening
• Leave of absence
• Cancellaltion of defective examinations and annulment of assessments
• Advice on special questions of study law

• Psychosocial counseling
• Art and health at the mdw
• Departments of the mdw
• University library ub.mdw
• Human Resources Development - Center for Further Education
• Administrative Department of Equality, Gender Studies and Diversity
• Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKG)
• Career Center at mdw
• University sports institute of the University of Vienna
• Competence Center for Academic Integrity
• History of the mdw