Johannes Kepler University Linz

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Type	Public
Established	1966
Vice-Chancellor	Stefan Koch[1]
Students	24,000 (2024)[2]
Location	Linz , Upper Austria , Austria 48°20′15″N 14°19′03″E / 48.33750°N 14.31750°E / 48.33750; 14.31750
Campus	Urban
Website	www.jku.at

The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, short: JKU) is a public university in Austria. It is located in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It offers bachelor's, master's, diploma and doctoral degrees in business, engineering, law, science, social sciences and medicine.

Today, about 24,000^[3] students study at the park campus in the northeast of Linz, with one out of nine students being from abroad. The university was the first in Austria to introduce an electronic student ID in 1998.

The university is the home of the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 2012, the Times Higher Education ranked the JKU at # 41 and in 2015 at # 87 in its list of the top 100 universities under 50 years old. According to the 2012 ranking, the JKU was the fifth best young university in German-speaking Europe. The university attained high scores for quotations, third-party funding, and internationalization efforts.^[4]