Department Media and Design

Industrial Design

My Studies

Internship

Students often spend their internship in Europe, the United States or in Asia. The internship is a compulsory element of the degree programme. Consequently the Bachelor’s degree programme incorporates an internship in a design studio or the design department of a company in the sixth semester. It covers a period of at least 15 weeks and can be undertaken either in Austria or abroad. Students are required to write a report on their internship.

Well-known companies in which our students have completed internships in the past include Audi

Fuseproject (USA)
IDEO (USA)
Alfredo Häberli (CH)
Layer (UK)
Form Us With Love (SE)
Van Berlo (NL)
Audi (DE)
BMW (DE)
Porsche (DE)
MAN (DE)
Volkswagen (DE)

Duration: at least 15 weeks
Workload: at least 30 hours a week

Students talk about their internships

Nathanael Boell

Internship with Alfredo Häberli.

Rebecca Meixner

Internship at WertelOberfell in Berlin.

Metka Antolic

Internship at the design agency hoch^E.

Dominik Scherrer

My internship at Noto Design in Hürth near Cologne.

Florian Howecker

Internship at designaffairs in Shanghai and Munich.

Stefan Märzendorfer

Internship at AUDI AG.

Graduation

Your degree is the foundation stone of your professional future. Here we tell you all you need to know about what it takes to successfully complete your studies and more.