Although child care facilities provide the elementary foundation for a successful educational career, the learning conditions at these facilities can still be improved. The path to improvement begins with the training of kindergarten teachers. The part-time bachelor's program is the first university degree program in Austria for trained kindergarten teachers with professional and management experience. The degree program focuses on how you can develop educational partnerships with families, team leadership and cooperation with education partners and how to optimally organize your facility.
Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (BA)
Tuition fee pro semester
€ 363,361
+ ÖH premium + contribution2
Currently no application possible
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FH Campus Wien, 1100 Wien
1 Tuition fees for students from third countries € 727,- per semester. Details on tuition fees can be found in the general fee regulations.
2 for additional study expenses (currently up to € 83,- depending on degree program and year)
You are a trained kindergarten teacher with professional and management experience. Personally, you want to critically reflect on what you have learned in your previous education and what you experience professionally every day and combine this with scientific findings. In this way you seek to expand your scope of action. What you already do now, you will in future also be able to justify based on established theory or do differently for good reason. In your job you recognize a complex, interwoven relationship between children, families, staff and education partners. As director, you are open to input in order to act even more professionally and efficiently so that your child care facility is well organized, leaving you enough time for what is truly important: the education of our children.
The Department Social Work offers a comprehensive and unique range of studies in the Vienna area.
Continue your generalized basic education with very specific continuing education offers.
Our national and international network enables internships and opens up job opportunities after graduation.
For admission you need
and a relevant professional qualification.
Additional examinations
Persons who have an aptitude test but do not have a general university entrance qualification can provide proof in the form of additional examinations. The examination subjects are based on the compulsory subjects of the studies group philosophy, arts and education (according to §64a UG 2002, e.g. University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna): German (essay), history 2, English 2.
Relevant professional qualification
Three years of relevant professional experience in a child day care facility, of which at least one year must be spent in a management role in the facility (e.g. management, deputy management). The competencies or lectures of the credited first semester are acquired non-formally during the three years of relevant professional experience (including at least one year of management duties) in a child day care facility.
The required language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is at least
Applicants may require legalization of documents from countries other than Austria in order for them to have the evidential value of domestic public documents. Information on the required legalizations can be found here in PDF format.
For documents that are neither in German nor English, a translation by a sworn and court-certified interpreter is required. Your original documents should have all the necessary legalization stamps before translation so that the stamps are also translated. The translation must be firmly attached to the original document or a legalized copy.
As part of your online application, upload scans of your original documents including all required legalization stamps. For documents not issued in German or English, scans of the corresponding translations must also be uploaded. The head of the study program decides on the equivalence of international (higher) education qualifications. Therefore, your documents can only be checked as part of the ongoing application process.
Your path to studying at FH Campus Wien begins with your registration on our application platform. In your online account, you can start your application directly or activate a reminder if the application phase has not yet started.
Your application is valid once you have completely uploaded the required documents. If you do not have all the documents at the time of your online application, please submit them to the secretary's office by email as soon as you receive them.
After completing your online application, you will receive an email confirmation with information on the next steps.
The admission procedure consists of a written test and an interview with the admission committee. The test is designed to assess your understanding of the conditions and requirements of social management in elementary education.
Since one semester is credited, the duration of the degree program is reduced to 5 semesters. Only those who meet the credit requirements for professional practice and management experience will be accepted into the degree program.
Perhaps your qualifications exceed our admission requirements, you are interested in the possibility of joining the program at a higher semester or you hold a degree from a university abroad?
For more information, please refer to the Validation section
We maintain close cooperation with elementary educational institutions, elementary educational training centers and universities with which we regularly exchange knowledge and experience. The bachelor's degree program was developed in collaboration with experts from the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, the Bundesbildungsanstalt für Elementarpädagogik Klagenfurt, employees of course-providing bodies, the early education and care platform EduCare and other experts from the field of early education and care and its related disciplines. The first conference for directors and responsible bodies for children's education and child care facilities in Austria took place at FH Campus Wien. Currently there are very few university professorships for early education and care in Austria The head of our degree program is herself a university qualified teacher. Nina Hover-Reisner most recently taught and researched topics in early education and care at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna. Before that, she worked for many years in early education and care institutions. Thus she combines to a high degree scientific expertise with practical experience.
Although child care facilities provide the elementary foundation for a successful educational career, the learning conditions at these facilities can still be improved. The path to improvement begins with the training of kindergarten teachers. In the vast majority of European countries a university education is the norm. Only in Austria is this not the case. At a time in which the growing need for quality child care facilities is being discussed and at the same time too few people want to work in early education and care, it is more important than ever to promote the development of the profession into an academic field.
FH Campus Wien is the first university to offer a degree program for trained kindergarten teachers with professional and management experience. The degree program focuses not only on the education of the children according to established theories, but on how you can develop educational partnerships with families, team leadership and cooperation with education partners and how to optimally organize your facility.
The degree program focuses on three core skills: early education and care in different settings, development and professionalization of the occupational field and organization and management.
Semester dates
The first semester can be credited to shorten the program to 5 semesters.
Classroom sessions are 8 times per semester, Thursday to Saturday full-time.
Overview in-class courses 2024/25 (PDF 95 KB)
Overview in-class courses 2025/26 (PDF 95 KB)
Number of teaching weeks 16 per Semester
Language of instruction
German (as part of "Internationalization at Home" activities of FH Campus Wien, courses taught by visiting lecturers may be held in the English language).
As a graduate of this program, a wide range of occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out here where your path can take you.
As a graduate of the bachelor's degree program you are the director of a child day care facility and are responsible for the entire organization and management. You are responsible for the personnel management and creating an atmosphere of teamwork. In addition, you may also take on expert positions as a speaker at conferences and congresses, an instructor for training and further education, a project member or a project manager. Your responsibilities also include educational partnerships, i.e. working with children and their families. You maintain networks and cooperate with educational partners. You are able to fulfill social and socio-spatial responsibilities. In every area in which you are active, you contribute to the further develop of your profession.
You will work in a management position in an early education and child care facility or in teaching and research. These include:
We work closely with numerous organizations in the social and public sectors, universities and research institutes. Our close relationships with early education and care institutions, early educational and care training centers and universities ensures you starting points for your career or your co-operation in research and development activities. You can find information about our cooperation activities and much more at Campusnetzwerk. It's well worth visiting the site as it may direct you to a new job or interesting event held by our cooperation partners!
Head of Degree Programs Early Education and Care, Child and Family Centered Social Work; Head of Study Program Early Childhood Education and Care
+43 1 606 68 77-3231
nina.hover-reisner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Favoritenstraße 226, B.2.28 (Campus Map)
1100 Wien
+43 1 606 68 77-3230
+43 1 606 68 77-3239
smep@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Office hours
Thu, 8.30 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. and 1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Fri, 8.30 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. and 1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
and by appointment
Academic Staff
maria.fuerstaller@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3241
Head of Degree Programs Early Education and Care, Child and Family Centered Social Work; Head of Study Program Early Childhood Education and Care
nina.hover-reisner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3231
Head of Program Academic Social Pedagogy–Social Therapy in In-Patient Child and Youth Welfare Services; Academic Staff
barbara.lehner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3240
Academic Staff; Head of Center for Academic Writing
katharina.roesler@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-1571
