TU Wien informatics admission test: the Reihungstest, its parts and registration

Informatics, Computer Engineering and Business Informatics at TU Wien share one two-stage admission procedure, held before enrolment. A single offer of a place covers all three programmes. Places are decided by the written ranking test, the Reihungstest, alone; your Matura grades are not taken into account.¹

TU Wien has not published the 2027 dates yet. The dates below are from the 2026 procedure and show roughly how the year runs. You do not need your school-leaving certificate to pre-register, only to enrol.²

Stages and deadlines of the TU Wien procedure

It starts with a guest account in TISS, TU Wien's student information system. There you create a pre-registration and complete the registration. Part of it is the Online Self-Assessment, stage one: it is not graded, but it must be completed in full, otherwise the application is excluded. You also pay a €50 fee online in TISS, which is not refunded if you then miss the test.²

In 2026 registration ran from 1 April, 12:00, to 4 May, 23:59. Self-assessment and payment also had to be confirmed in TISS by 4 May, and the ranking test took place on site on 13 July 2026.¹

About three weeks before the test, your personal admission confirmation appears in TISS. Bring the first page printed out, along with the photo ID you gave at registration. The test itself lasts exactly two hours, but you must arrive an hour early and should plan for four to five hours in total. There is no make-up date.²

The University of Vienna fills its informatics places through a separate procedure. In 2026 both ranking tests ran at the same time, so you could only sit one, and you can only enrol at one university anyway.²

How the two universities' tests differ is covered in the comparison of the informatics admission tests in Vienna.

The three parts of the informatics Reihungstest

The test has three parts with fixed weights: part A, subject knowledge from the prescribed material, counts 35 %, part B, reading comprehension in German and English, 15 %, and part C, cognitive abilities, 50 %. You choose the order of the parts, and only marks on the answer sheet count.³

The material for part A is Jens Gallenbacher's book "Abenteuer Informatik", 4th edition, and only chapters 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 15. TU Wien offers an excerpt for download on its exam material page.⁴

The parts also differ in how you answer. In part A, one or more options can be right, but never all of them: each right one earns partial points, wrong ones are deducted, and a question never goes below zero. Part B asks whether a statement about a text is true, false or cannot be judged from the text. Part C consists of number sequences, logic tasks, analogies and matrices.³

Worked example: a logic task from the TU Wien info sheet

TU Wien's info sheet shows every task type with examples. A logic task gives two statements, and you tick every conclusion that follows from them with certainty.

Statement 1: At least one Amiv is Plosa. Statement 2: All Plosa are Urov.

a) All Urov are Plosa. b) At least one Plosa is Urov. c) All Amiv are Plosa. d) At least one Amiv is Urov. e) All Urov are Amiv. f) No Urov is Plosa.

The answers are b and d. Since all Plosa are Urov, at least one Plosa is Urov, which is b. The Amiv that is Plosa is therefore Urov as well, which is d. The trap is c: it does not contradict the statements, but it does not follow from them either, so it counts as wrong.³

Part B tests the same distinction between "fits" and "follows" with its third option, "cannot be judged".

Places and ranking at TU Wien

For the coming academic year TU Wien offers 670 places across all three programmes. In 2026 there were 1,030 valid registrations when the window closed, and all of them were invited to the test. In 2025 there were 1,167.¹

Candidates are ranked by test score, places go to the highest scores, and ties are decided by lot. Only you can see your result, in your TISS account. With an offer you can start in the following winter or summer semester, not later. If you miss out, you can take part again the next year, but you go through the whole procedure from the start.¹

How to prepare for the TU Wien Reihungstest

1. Download the info sheet and solve every example. Afterwards you know which task type is hardest for you.
2. Part C is half the score. Train number sequences, logic, analogies and matrices separately until you have a fixed method for each.
3. Read the seven chapters and revise them until you can tell true statements about them from false ones with confidence. In part A a wrong tick costs points.
4. For part B, practise on German and English non-fiction texts by asking whether a statement is really in the text.
5. Finish with a full mock test in two hours, transferring your answers to an answer sheet as in the real test.

The trainer for the informatics admission test covers all three parts, with theory for each task type in part C and a timed mock test.

Without an Austrian school-leaving certificate, ask TU Wien's admissions office early about the extra steps, as processing takes longer.²

Which documents need certifying and translating for that is covered in the article on university documents.

Sources

· 4 checked 03.10.2026

1. 1Aufnahmeverfahren Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik, TU Wien
2. 2FAQ zum Aufnahmeverfahren Studienfeld Informatik, TU Wien
3. 3Informationsblatt zum Aufnahmeverfahren Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik 2026 (TU Wien) · dated 02.03.2026
4. 4Prüfungsstoff zum Aufnahmeverfahren Studienfeld Informatik, TU Wien