Information about the Admission Procedures for the Master's Programme Psychotherapy for The Academic Year 2026/2027

If you are interested in the Master's programme in Psychotherapy, please note the following conditions: The University of Innsbruck and the Medical University of Innsbruck are offering a total of 100 places for the Master's programme in Psychotherapy in the 2026/2027 academic year. To obtain one of these places, you must complete the following steps:

Admission procedure – process:

Electronic registration and cost contribution payment  2 March to 7 April 2026

1. Registration/application for the admission procedure prior to enrolment.
2. Enter your details into the system, enter your OSA code from the University of Vienna and then fill out the statistics sheet.
3. Select your quota. More information: Kontingentregelung
4. Then pay the fee of €80 to complete your application for the Master's programme in Psychotherapy at the University of Innsbruck. Please note that in the last four days before the registration deadline, the fee can only be paid by credit card or instant bank transfer in order to prevent late payments.
5. Once you have completed the data entry and paid the fee, you can print out your registration confirmation.

Admission can only be granted after successful completion of the entrance examination. Detailed information on the required documents can be found at Master's Programme – University of Innsbruck

We kindly ask applicants who require special aids or assistance (e.g. severe visual impairment, hearing aids, barrier-free access, other physical or mental impairments) to contact the Office of the Disability Officer by 7 April 2026 at the latest so that we can make the necessary arrangements. Please send a medical certificate from a specialist directly to: behindertenbeauftragte@uibk.ac.at.

If more than 100 applicants register for the Master's programme in Psychotherapy at the University of Innsbruck within the specified registration period, a written entrance examination will be held on 6 July 2026. You will be informed of the next steps by email after the registration deadline.

The admission of applicants for the joint Master's programme in Psychotherapy is based on the admission procedure in accordance with §§ 6 ff.

The admission procedure takes place once per academic year and applies to both the winter and summer semesters.

The admission procedure consists of two stages: an online self-assessment and a written admission test.

The admission test consists of four parts, each of which comprises several items. An item is a question or task with several possible answers, of which exactly one is correct (single choice) or one or more may be correct (multiple choice).

A. Knowledge:

• Test section: Basic knowledge of psychotherapy science:

This part of the test assesses prior knowledge from the specified test literature on fundamentals relevant to psychotherapy science, in particular fundamentals of research and scientific methodology, psychological and medical-psychiatric fundamentals, fundamentals of psychotherapy, and fundamentals of psychological diagnostics.

The examination material for the academic year 2026/2027 can be found here: Prüfungsliteratur Aufnahmeverfahren MA Psychotherapie 2026/2027.

B. Skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Verbal-analytical comprehension section:

This part of the test assesses text comprehension, verbal-analytical comprehension, and verbal assessment and judgement skills.

• Social-emotional skills test section:

This part of the test assesses social-emotional reasoning, social sensitivity and the recognition of emotions.

• English language skills test:

This part of the test assesses your comprehension of English-language texts.

C. Assessment

Correctly answered items are scored with a score of 1, incorrectly answered or unanswered items with 0.

The total score used for ranking is calculated from the weighted sum of the four test scores and is determined according to the following formula:

• Test section value: Basic knowledge of psychotherapy science: 70 %
• Test section value for verbal-analytical comprehension: 15,75 %
• Test section value for social-emotional skills: 9 %
• Test section value for  English language skills: 5,25 %