A wealth of international educational institutes, from multilingual primary schools to private universities is available not just for Viennese pupils, but also for the whole international community.

Vienna's primary schools comply with the highest international standards and the number of bilingual schools is growing steadily.

In addition to all the conventional German-language state schools, there are kindergartens conducted in English; a French Lice, American, Czech, Swedish, International and Japanese schools, even one holding classes in German, Hungarian and Slovakian, and Webster University. The international Lauder Foundation has built a Jewish school.

With 130,000 students in a population of just over 1.6 million, Vienna is a disproportionately large seat of learning. The University of Vienna, founded in 1365, is one of the world’s oldest in Europe and embraces nearly every discipline.

The names of those who taught in Vienna, or were educated here themselves, are legendary.  Building on the tradition of Sigmund Freud, Viktor Frankl and Paul Watzlawick at the world-famous Vienna School of Medicine and medical technology have attained a position of supreme importance in modern society. And economists such as Schumpeter, Hayek and others continue to have an outsized influence on their profession.