Meteorology and Climate Science (Bachelor)
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The bachelor's programme in Meteorology and Climate Science aims to equip students with academic core competences in the field of meteorology and the ability to apply them in the solution of practical problems. Meteorology is a scientific discipline exploring the past, present and future state of the atmosphere and the climate system as well as the processes involved, based on laws of physics and by means of mathematical methods.
Bachelor of Science
Degree Programme Code: 033 604
6 semesters / 180 ECTS credits
Language: German
NO entrance examination
Facts & Figures
- Students: 147
- Graduates in the last academic year: 9
- Number of semesters needed for graduation (median): 8,0
Data updated on: 26.11.2025
Information about presentation & calculation
Attention
Instruction Language German
Please note that the instruction language of this programme is German. To start the degree programme, you need to hold a certificate of German proficiency on C1 level.
Admission procedure
Information about the admission procedure
Getting Started
Orientation in the first semester
Introductory and orientation period (STEOP)
Getting Informed
StudiesServiceCenter (SSC) Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy
Students' Representatives Meteorology und Geophysics
Study programme
The bachelor's programme in Meteorology and Climate Science consists of an Introductory and Orientation Period (STEOP) and compulsory modules on the fields of physics, computer science, meteorology, climatology and related scientific fields. To complete the programme, students have to write a bachelor’s thesis.
Five concepts
which you will deal with during your studies:
- Climatology
- Atmosphere
- Thermodynamics
- Hydrometeorology
- Geophysics
... and many more.
Overview of the programme structure & topics
Here you find the current offer of courses for this programme to gain better insight into the topics and structure. For more information please click on the respective level.
Group of Compulsory Modules A (StEOP) (16 ECTS)
StEOP-E I Experimental Physics I: Classical Mechanics and Thermodynamics (8 ECTS)
StEOP-PhRM Introduction to Calculus (7 ECTS)
StEOP-UebMetKli Overview of Meteorology and Climatology (1 ECTS)
Group of Compulsory Modules B (149 ECTS)
PM-ANA I Analysis for Physicists I (8 ECTS)
PM-LINALG Linear Algebra for Physicists (7 ECTS)
PM-E II Experimental Physics II: Optics, Electromagnetism and Relativity (8 ECTS)
PM-T I Theoretical Physics I: Classical Mechanics (9 ECTS)
PM-ANA II Analysis for Physicists II (8 ECTS)
PM-TheAtm Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere (5 ECTS)
PM-ANA III Analysis for Physicists III (8 ECTS)
PM-EEA Introduction to Experimental Work (4 ECTS)
PM-EST Introductory Statistics (6 ECTS)
PM-InfMet Computer Science in Meteorology (6 ECTS)
PM-DynAtm Dynamics of the Atmosphere (10 ECTS)
PM-PhyPra Physics Lab Course (5 ECTS)
PM-StrWol Atmospheric Radiation and Clouds (8 ECTS)
PM-KliSys Climate System of the Earth (8 ECTS)
PM-CheAtm Chemistry of the Atmosphere (6 ECTS)
PM-AtmMod Atmospheric Modelling (10 ECTS)
PM-MetMes Measurement Methods in Meteorology (10 ECTS)
PM-AnaPro Weather Analysis and Weather Forecast (11 ECTS)
PM-GreMet Boundary Layer Meteorology (5 ECTS)
PM-BacArb Bachelor‘s Thesis (7 ECTS)
Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules C (15 ECTS)
APM-NatWis Related Fields in Natural Sciences and Soft Skills (15 ECTS)
Related Fields in Natural Sciences (at least 7 ECTS)
APM-ArbPra Subject-Specific Working Practice and Soft Skills (15 ECTS)
Subject-Specific Working Practice (10 ECTS)
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After Graduation
Following a subject-specific introduction, graduates can work in the following fields:
- weather forecasting services of print or broadcast media (radio and television)
- public offices (e.g. Environment Agency Austria, warning services of the Austrian federal provinces)
- insurance industry and
- universities and public/private research institutions, supporting academic staff.
As the bachelor’s programme places a strong focus on electronic data processing and programming on various platforms and aims at developing an analytical-logical mindset, graduates will also have good chances of employment outside the discipline of meteorology.
Master's Programmes
Continuing after Graduation
- Alumni of the University of Vienna
- [Postgraduate Center - postgraduate programmes at the University of Vienna](http://www.postgraduatecenter.at/en)
- [Uniport - career service of the University of Vienna](https://www.uniport.at/uniport-fuer-studierende)
Graduates' Perspective on the Degree Programme
#### Degree programme in retrospect
Graduates ...
- say that this degree programme receives the grade: 2.8 (satisfactory)
- rate the level of difficulty as: 4.2 (high)
→ These results are basd on feedback from 12 graduates.
*You can find further assessments of the degree programme from its graduates’ perspective in the graduate survey of thebachelor’s programme in Meteorology graduation survey (in German).