Our services

We evaluate higher education institutions and degree programmes, thereby enabling state recognition. In addition, we conduct voluntary accreditations in Austria and abroad.

We audit quality management systems at universities, universities of applied sciences, and teacher education institutions. Through the audit, we certify the internal quality management system.

We advise universities, higher education institutions, and research organizations on issues of quality development, quality assurance, and quality management, and we conduct evaluations through peer-review procedures both nationally and internationally.

As a notification authority in accordance with § 27 HS-QSG, we carry out regulatory notification procedures for foreign studies, thereby creating transparency and providing information.

We analyse quality-related topics in higher education and publish studies and analyses. In doing so, we provide impulses for the entire higher education system and its stakeholders.

We support higher education institutions and educational institutions in assigning their qualifications to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). This makes qualifications transparent and comparable.