Life sciences is one of the key industries of the 21st century offering tremendous potential for growth, professional development and personal advancement. Innsbruck / Tyrol provides a highly competitive location including its excellently positioned universities, the Tyrolean Future Foundation, the Center for Academic Spin-offs CAST and several innovative competence centers as well as global players in the bioengineering industry.

The MCI Bachelor’s program Engineering, Environmental & Biotechnology clearly focusses on the interface between exist ing university programs following a scientific or medical orientation and MCI’s other programs in the field of engineering and environmental technology.

Thanks to this interdisciplinary positioning, the existing know-how is synergetically complemented by a techno - lo gical component, equipping the students with future-oriented qualifications.

The Bachelor’s program Engineering, Environmental & Biotechnology comprises 6 semesters and lectures totaling 134 semester hours or 2,010 hours of instruction. Lectures are basically in German, however, certain lectures and exams may also be in English. A semester’s duration is from the beginning of October until the end of January and from the beginning of March until the end of June. As a rule lectures will take place Mondays through Fridays in the daytime.

After completion of their studies, the graduates of this Bachelor’s program will work at the interface between engin eering and science. They will have a sound command of the principles of both disciplines and know how to combine them synergetically. The holders of a Bachelor’s degree perceive themselves as comprehensively acting engineers focussing on the development, steering, optimization and controlling of biotechnological and environmental processes and technologies.

The career prospects are very much determined by the field of specialization chosen by the student.

Bioengineers deal with (micro-)biological technologies, methods and processes. They are active in the development of cell culture technology, the operation of bioreactors, or the field of environmental technology. They are responsible for adapting processes developed in the laboratory to a commercial scale, ensure smooth production processes, design and supervise bio-process engineering facilities or, in the field of environmental technology, develop biological processes for the disposal of solid, liquid and gaseous materials.

Graduates have a large variety of career options in particular in the following fields:

chemical and pharmaceutical industry food industry, examination and surveillance agriculture, fertilizer and fodder industries apparatus and plant engineering for biological and biotechnological applications metrology, testing and analyzing

environmental-technological, biological industry science, research, development and technology transfer public infrastructure, municipal services environmental agencies, associations and interest groups international cooperation and organizations consulting, independent professions

In view of the increasing pollution of our environment by waste and hazardous substances in soil, water and air and a soaring costburden, technical environmental protection is gaining ever more importance. Therefore, environmental technologies have been developing into a key technology for our future with enormous economic growth opportunities. Modern environmental technologies combine know-how from the fields of science and engineering, focussing on the identification and reduction of hazardous substances as well as the decontamination of existing waste deposits.

Graduates of this interdisciplinary field of specialization have received a practice-oriented education and are ready to meet the technological challenges in the field of environmental issues, actively interfacing business and management.

industries specialized on environmental technologies environmental technology departments in other industries public utilities, infrastructure, municipal services waste disposal, treatment and decontamination planning, production, distribution of machinery and services quality assurance and quality management risk management and assessment

environmental protection environmental impact assessment, ecological auditing innovation management research, development and technology transfer environmental agencies, associations, lobbies international cooperation and organizations consulting, independent professions

ACCEPTED INTO THE PROGRAM ARE:

• Applicants with a general university entrance qualification (school-leaving exam, relevant university entrance equivalency exam, vocational certificate, etc.)
• Applicants with a relevant professional qualification (e.g. apprenticeship, supervisory training, technical college degree, advanced technical college entrance qualification) plus supplementary certification in German, English, Mathematics and Physics.

Applications for admission to the program shall be submitted on the basis of the standardized application form, including all required documentation, in accordance with the applicable deadline. Each year 60 students are admitted. If the number of applications exceeds the number of available places, admission will be based on the following criteria:

- CAREER BACKGROUND 20%
- WRITTEN EXAM 30%
- INTERVIEW 50%

Applications can be handed in at any time. The standardized application form as well as all required documents should be submitted in good time.