Accommodation/Housing in Innsbruck
à Students Halls of Residence
à Youth Hostels
à Private Accommodation
à Students Halls of Residence
The Austrian Academic Exchange Service (ÖAD) will do its best to organize a room for you
although only a limited number of rooms (especially single rooms) are available. ERASMUS and other
official exchange programme students have priority. Students can only be accommodated as long as
rooms are available.
The online application form is available here à
http://www.housing.oead.ac.at/innsbruck_e/anmeldung.asp
The payment of a reservation deposit is compulsory, otherwise you will not be allocated a room.
Please apply as soon as possible! The rooms are allocated "first come first serve".
There are double and single study-rooms; kitchen and bathroom are usually shared. Rooms are
allocated after arrival of both application and deposit. Rooms are let by complete semesters only and
cannot be quit during the semester. If you arrive later or leave earlier, you must pay for the whole
period you applied for. For organizational reasons students coming for the winter semester must also
pay for the month of February (exam period!).
After reserving a room, please observe the times and information sent to you by the students hostel.
Plan your arrival according to these times, if possible, and announce your arrival early enough either
by telephone or e-mail.
CONTACT:
Austrian Exchange Service / Österreichischer Austauschdienst
Innrain 36, A-6020 Innsbruck
Office hours: Mon-Fri 9.00-12.00
Tel: +43 (0)512 507 2470
Fax: +43 (0)512 507 2937
e-mail: oead-housing@oead.at
Students Halls Accommodation – Additional Important Information
• Please read all legal implications carefully!
• After a while you will receive a confirmation letter. Please read the letter carefully and
reconfirm the receipt. Please let the ÖAD know your arrival date one week in advance.
Students will NOT be picked up from the airport or train station!
• Rent: approx. €200-340 per month (depends on the room and the facilities)
• Please make sure that you book your room early enough! It is very difficult to find private
accommodation in Innsbruck.
• The residence halls usually open only from October 1st (winter semester) / March 1st
(summer semester). But as the introduction and orientation days take place before these
dates, please contact the residence hall you will be staying in order to set up early arrival
arrangements!
Subject to change!
Accommodation/Housing in Innsbruck
• If you have any questions concerning student halls, please contact the
accommodation/housing office: Austrian Academic Exchange Service - ÖAD
• Room booking and payment should be done as soon as possible especially for the winter
semester (WS) as demand is very high (for the WS before June!). Please apply and pay for
accommodation/housing before you receive the acceptance letter from the Innsbruck
University. In case you will not receive a room because of the market situation, you will
receive all the money back!
• In case you cannot come due to your study situation at home, you also get all the money back
if you cancel early enough (please see legal implications). For more information regarding this
matter, please contact oead-housing@uibk.ac.at
à Youth Hostels
If you have made no arrangements for accommodation in advance, you may choose to stay at a youth
hostel for the first few days:
Jugendherberge Innsbruck
Reichenauerstrasse 147
Tel: +43 (0)512 346179
e-mail: office@youth-hostel-innsbruck.at
http://www.youth-hostel-innsbruck.at
Pension St. Nikolaus / Glockenhaus
Weiherburggasse 3
Tel: +43 (0)512 286515
e-mail: innsbruck@hostelnikolaus.at
http://www.hostelnikolaus.at
The Youthhostel "Verein Volkshaus"
Radetzkystr. 47
Tel: +43 (0)512 341086
e-mail: info@volkshaus.at
http://www.volkshaus.at
à Self-organized Private Accommodation
Renting rooms or apartments on the free market is very difficult and expensive especially when you
wish to rent for less than 12 months and need furnished accommodation. Usually, private contracts
will be contracted for a minimum of one year by law. So it might be very difficult for students who
stay only for one semester to find private accommodation. According to the Tyrolean regional
manager of the Austrian Union of Real Estate a one-room flat costs between € 500 and 600 per
month.
The ÖAD – Austrian Exchange Service does NOT organized private accommodation !!!
Links for private accommodation search online are:
ÖH-Wohnungsbörse à http://www.oehweb.at/index.php?id=36 à "Wohnungsbörse"
Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper à http://www.tt.com/
Subject to change!
