Digital Excellence Campus
We change education.
You change the future.
The international Digital Excellence Campus 42 opened its first location in Austria in October 2022. 42 Vienna trains the next generation of top programmers and IT experts using the innovative and forward-looking 42 learning model: no teachers, no lectures and no fees.
We believe that everyone deserves the chance and opportunity to get the best education — regardless of financial means or academic qualifications. That's why the course offers open access, is free of charge and no prior qualifications are required. Instead, we cooperate with partners who believe in our graduates and check in advance whether applicants have the talent to study at 42.
2-minutes introduction video
You learn programming by collaborating with other students. Having no teachers, means that projects are evaluated through peer review.
Learning by doing. The curriculum consists of high quality and up-to-date projects which are constantly innovated by a group of experts.
Develop soft skills needed in working life such as adaptability, critical thinking, collaboration and learning to learn.
Instead of slaying dragons, you slay projects. You progress through the curriculum with experience points and levels instead of years and semesters.
The campus is designed to make connections, learn programming, create music and play games. We believe in the power of co-creation beyond the screen!
To join 42 Vienna as a student there are 3 important steps in the admission process:
With its location in the heart of Europe, Austria offers magnificent landscapes, cultural diversity and an attractive business and innovation location. The federal capital Vienna is even considered the city with the highest quality of life worldwide. However, Vienna also offers space for talent as an educational location and an ecosystem that creates perspectives and enables personal development.
42 Vienna offers a unique tech education for coding talents. The Digital Excellence Campus stands for open access and an innovative educational model - no teachers, no lectures and no fees. The campus 42 Vienna has been offering space for development and networking since October 2022 and will grow to around 500 students in the next three years. Further locations in Lower Austria (Amstetten) and Upper Austria (Wels) are being planned.
After Vienna we are planning to establish further campus locations in Amstetten and Wels. A fully-fledged 42 location requires not only the appropriate infrastructure but also sufficient students on site to be able to implement the learning concept. This requires sufficient time for preparation. However, we already want to offer interested 42 students from these regions the opportunity to complete parts of their studies in so-called "42 Project Spaces". This means that students do not have to move to Vienna, or only temporarily. This is particularly attractive if you are employed and do not want to give up your environment or your current housing.
What does this mean in practice:
For more information, please contact the 42 Vienna Team!
When you become a student at 42 Vienna, you're part of the 42 Network! Currently, there are 21.000+ students, studying at 54 campuses in 31 countries all over the world.
