The other day, I had a realization about how many students I have interacted with in Vienna, and I thought I wonder how much students are responsible for running the city. Think about it, there are so many university students in your class right? Historically, Vienna has been famous for its academic excellence, but in addition to that, there are few of the largest public universities in the country at the moment. University of Vienna alone has 94,000 students, and the technical university has about 28,000 students. With Vienna University of Economics and Business with a student body of 23,000, university students from these schools make up about 10% of Vienna’s population! I am not even sure how many private schools there are that I did not even count. Both directly and indirectly, students in Vienna are driving a big part of Vienna’s city life.

This is a picture of inside of WU’s library that looks like futuristic space ship.

I am not sure how accurate these numbers are, considering many young people here register themselves at public universities for free to enjoy some student benefits. Once I met a guy who has been „studying“ at University of Vienna for the tenth year. Vienna had some of the most famous philosophers and scientists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although universities in Vienna are not as highly ranked as once it used to be, it is still one of the largest university cities in the German speaking countries. So do you see now how the city can both be young and historical?