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Private Higher Education Act (PrivHG) (valid from January 2021)

Decree of the Board of AQ Austria on the Accreditation of Private Higher Education 2024 (PrivH-AkkVO 2024) (valid from 15 January 2025) – currently only in German 

Decree of the Board of AQ Austria on the Accreditation of Private Higher Education 2021 (PrivH-AkkVO 2021) (valid from 15 July 2021 until 14 January 2025)

Private Universities Act (PUG) (valid till 31 December 2020)
Decree on the Accreditation of Private Universities 2021 (PU-AkkVO) (valid from 1 February 2019 till 14 July 2021)

Documentation Accreditation of Private Universities and their degree programmes 

Decree of the Board of AQ Austria on Annual Reports of Private Higher Education 2025 (PrivH-JBVO 2025) - valid from 1 April 2025 (currently only in German)

Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) 
QF-EHEA 
The accreditation procedure in detail 
Act on education reservation (federal law prohibiting the education of professional activities regulated by health legislation in the regard against unauthorized institutions) (in German)

Ordinance on medical universities 2016 (MUVO 2016) (in German)
Act on doctors 1998 (ÄrzteG 1998) (in German) 
Act on dentists (ZÄG) (in German) 
Act on psychologists 2013 (in German)
Act on psychotherapy (in German)
Handout to the interpretion of the criteria § 14 para 5 lit b Accreditation regulation of private universities: organisational structure at private universities (in German)
Handout to the interpretion of the criteria § 17 para 1 lit. o Accreditation regulation of private universities (requirements to the research environment at doctoral studies) (in German)
Explanations to the interpretion of the criteria § 17 para 1 lit. b Accreditation regulation for private universities respectively § 17 para 1 lit. e Accreditation regulation for FH programmes (in German)

Recommendations ot the Austrian Bologna Follow-Up group for the implementation of the ECTS-guideline of the European Commission (Version 2015) (in German)
ECTS-guideline of the European Commission (Version 2015) (in German)
Diploma Supplement