Family Friendliness, Studying as a Parent

The St. Pölten UAS seeks to support staff members with caring responsibilities and to create the best possible conditions for studying with children or while pregnant.

These efforts were once again translated into targets in the course of the audit for the state certificate hochschuleundfamilie, for which the St. Pölten UAS was certified as a family-friendly university in 2023.

Under certain circumstances, students may file an application for a tuition fee waiver / the return of tuition fees and participation fees. A pregnancy is one of these circumstances. You can file this application by submitting the form and the necessary supporting documents to the CSC.
Application for a tuition fee waiver / the return of tuition fees and participation fees (download PDF here)

Parent-Child Room & Family-Friendly Facilities

Parent-Child Room

There is a Parent-Child Room in building A. Download Navigation Guide (PDF).

The Parent-Child Room is open to students and staff members of the UAS who have childcare responsibilities, as well as their partners, external fathers and other caregivers. The access card to the Parent-Child Room can be collected from the Campus and Study Center.

• UAS members can have access to this room activated on their Campus Card by contacting the CSC either in person or via email.
• When it comes to external persons, the Campus and Study Center keeps a pool card that can be borrowed for this purpose.

The Parent-Child Room features a seating area for feeding babies, a diaper-changing table, children’s toys, and a fridge.

Family-Friendly Facilities

• There are foldable diaper-changing tables in both all-gender toilets on the ground floor of Building B.
• There is a high chair for children in the canteen and there is the possibility to order small “children’s portions”.
• The library has a children’s corner with many children’s book.
• A public children's playground can be used in the immediate neighbourhood, and a new children's playground will soon be built adjacent to the UAS garden.

Childcare During the Holidays

From 25 March to 28 March (week before Easter) and from 22 July to 26 July, from 29 July to 02 August and 05 August to 09 August 2024, the UAS has offered holiday childcare for children of employees and students aged 4 to 12. The free childcare was offered by qualified staff of Kinderfreunde NÖ.

Children's programme: "light painting" | Photo: Johannes Winkler

Read more here: Diverse Programme at Summer Childcare 2023