Tyrolean private university UMIT

Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL
motto	The university of today for the knowledge of tomorrow
founding	2001
Sponsorship	Private
place	Hall in Tirol , Austria
Rector	Sabine Schindler
Students	2100
Employee	250
Website	umit-tirol.at

The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL sees itself as a health university and is based in Hall in Tirol . It was founded in 2001 in Innsbruck under the name of the Private University for Medical Informatics and Technology Tirol . In 2004, as part of the expansion of the health sciences, it was named UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology . The university is sponsored by the State of Tyrol (90 percent) and the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (10 percent).

history

The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL was founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of the Tirol Kliniken  GmbH - previously (until June 23, 2015) TILAK Tyrolean State Hospitals - (74.93%) and the Tyrolean Future Foundation  (25.07%). founded. The first course offered was a bachelor's and master's degree in medical informatics.

The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL was accredited by the Austrian Accreditation Council (ÖAR) on November 16, 2001 for a period of five years .

In the 2004/2005 winter semester, the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL moved from Innsbruck to Hall in Tyrol to a newly built campus ( Eduard Wallnöfer Center ).

In 2006, the accreditation by the Austrian Accreditation Council was extended to 2011 after an international assessment.

The university is sponsored by the State of Tyrol (90 percent) and the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (10 percent). As the sole shareholder of the Tyrolean private university UMIT, the state of Tyrol aims to develop Tyrol's excellent reputation in the health sector through research and teaching at the highest level on the one hand, and to strengthen the scientific location on the other.

On September 13, 2010, the ÖAR revoked the accreditation for the doctoral program in health sciences due to the lack of qualitative supervision due to the large number of students and serious deficiencies in both the implementation and the scientific orientation of the program. The poor quality of the dissertations was also complained about, for example dissertations were filed in the subject of health sciences that had no relation to health and therefore should not have been accepted. The other bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs were not affected by this decision.

After an international assessment, the ÖAR was able to grant accreditation to seven new doctoral programs at UMIT TIROL in 2011. The basis for the decision of the ÖAR was the assessment by six independent, international, external experts who subjected the Tyrolean private university to an intensive analysis and evaluation over several months.

In the same year 2011, following another international assessment, the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL was reaccredited for the third time up to 2016 and now up to 2021.

In the academic year 2012/13 a new high was reached with 432 new students.

Studies began in Landeck in 2014.

In 2014, on the initiative of the state, the shareholder structures of the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL were adapted in order to give the University of Innsbruck a ten percent stake in the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL. As a result, the University of Innsbruck and the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL are moving closer together in the direction of a "Campus Tyrol". This is intended to strengthen cooperation between Tyrolean universities in the future.

The university bachelor's degree in mechatronics has been offered jointly by the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL and the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck since autumn 2016 at the Lienz technology campus in East Tyrol .

In 2020, after a legal dispute with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the university changed its brand name to UMIT TIROL - The Tyrolean Private University .

Eduard Wallnöfer Center of UMIT

organization

The university is sponsored by the State of Tyrol (90 percent) and the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (10 percent). The rector of the university is also the managing director of the Tyrolean private university UMIT GesmbH.

The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL GesmbH also has shares in other companies and competence centers.

The highest organs of the university are the scientific advisory board, the rectorate with rector and vice rector and the senate. The university is divided into the four departments Biomedical Informatics and Mechatronics, Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, Nursing Science and Gerontology, and Psychology and Medical Sciences.

Locations

The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL not only offers its courses on the campus in Hall , but also maintains study centers at various locations, since 2014 in Landeck and 2016 in Lienz .

Rectors

• since Oct. 2014: Sabine Schindler
• Aug. 2010 to Sep. 2014: Christa Them
• Aug. 2009 to Jul. 2010: Christa Them (interim)
• Oct. 2008 to Jul. 2009: Armin Graber
• Jul. 2008 to Sep. 2008: Roland Staudinger (interim)
• October 2004 to June 2008: Bernhard Tilg
• Aug. 2001 to Sep. 2004: Reinhold Haux

Department and institute structure

The university consists of four departments:

• Biomedical informatics and mechatronics
  • Institute for Automation and Control Technology
  • Institute for Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Institute for Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
  • Institute for Medical Informatics
  • Institute for measurement and sensor technology
  • Division for mechatronics in Lienz
  • Research Unit for eHealth and Innovation
• Public health, health services research and HTA
  • Institute for Public Health, Medical Decision Making and HTA
  • Institute for Management and Economics in Health Care
  • Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Medicine
  • Division for quantitative methods in public health and health services research
  • Division for management in health and sports tourism
  • Research Unit for Quality and Ethics in Healthcare
  • Research Unit for Diabetes Epidemiology
  • Center for statistical advice and training
• Nursing Science and Gerontology
  • Institute for Nursing Science
  • Institute for Gerontology and Demographic Development
• Psychology and Medical Sciences
  • Institute for Psychology
    • Clinical and Health Psychology
    • Social and Personality Psychology
    • General and Experimental Psychology
    • Statistics and Psychometrics
    • Learning and learning disabilities
    • Work, organizational and business psychology
    • Applied psychometrics and emotions
  • Institute for Sports, Alpine Medicine and Health Tourism
    • Research unit for sports medicine of the musculoskeletal system and injury prevention
    • Research Unit for Orthopedic Physiotherapy
  • EURAK - European Academy for Physiotherapy

The departments are divided into institutes, divisions and research units.

Studies and courses

Currently (as of August 2020) 2100 students are enrolled at the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL. The Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL currently offers the following courses and courses:

Baccalaureate courses

• Mechatronics
• Electrical engineering
• Nursing Sciences
• Combined nursing (diploma training and bachelor's degree in nursing science)
• psychology
• Diploma in physiotherapy
• Economy, health and sports tourism
• Healthcare business administration

Magister and Masters courses

• Health sciences
• Advanced Nursing Practice
• Nursing and health education
• Nursing and health management
• Public health
• Sustainable regional and destination development
• Mechatronics
• psychology

University courses

• Dyscalculia
• Dyslexia
• autism
• Mediation and conflict management
• Management roles in health and nursing
• Teaching duties in health and nursing
• Health Information Management

PhD courses

• Technical Sciences
• Health information systems
• Sports medicine, health tourism and recreational science
• psychology
• Management and economics in health care
• Nursing science
• Public health
• Health Technology Assessment

When applying for a degree program, u. a. Selection interviews take place.

Tuition fees and student representation

tuition fee

The tuition fees at the Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL range between € 490 per semester for the bachelor's degree in mechatronics and € 3,900 per semester for the doctoral degree.

Student representation

After the changes to the Austrian Student Union Act (HSG), students at private universities were no longer members of the ÖH since February 2005 , UMIT TIROL was one of the first private universities in Austria to set up its own student council (name: StuVe) . An amendment to the HSG in 2014 set up an ÖH representation at every private and public university. The ÖH UMIT has been responsible for UMIT TIROL students since October 1st, 2014.

Known relatives

• Ursula Gresser (* 1957), internist and rheumatologist, professor since 2012
• Bernhard Tilg (* 1967), politician, from 2002 university professor, shortly afterwards vice rector and from 2004 to 2008 rector and managing director
• Peter R. Steiner (* 1955), hospital manager and honorary professor for medical law
• Reinhold Haux , university professor for medical informatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig , 2001-2004 founding rector of UMIT, 2007-2010 president of the International Medical Informatics Association

Web links

Commons : UMIT  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tyrolean private university UMIT TIROL

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} UMIT - The private university for health sciences, medical informatics and technology. Key data ( Memento from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Tyrolean Future Foundation
3. ↑ Haux R. Biomedical and health informatics education at UMIT-approaches and strategies at a newly founded university . Int J Med Inform. 2004 Mar 18; 73 (2): 127-38.
4. ↑ LR Anna Hosp presents UMIT structural reform ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Haller Blatt from October 14, 2006
5. ↑ ^{a b} Tirol.gv.at UMIT TIROL investment report 2013
6. ↑ No Harvard in the Alps . Die Zeit online, December 9, 2010
7. ↑ New doctoral program at Tyrolean UMIT TIROL approved . Der Standard online, March 2, 2011.
8. ↑ UMIT - The Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology. 10 years UMIT ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Tyrolean Health Life Sciences University UMIT starts the new academic year with a positive balance ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) SpringerMedizin.at October 12, 2012
10. ^ Landeck as a new university town tirol.gv.at September 29, 2014
11. ↑ Two State Universities - One Strategy Information portal of the University of Innsbruck, September 22, 2014
12. ↑ UMIT • Mechatronics. Retrieved December 20, 2018 . 
13. ↑ UMIT has to change brand after legal dispute with US top university MIT. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c} UMIT - The private university for health sciences, medical informatics and technology. Organization ( Memento from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ UMIT • Biomedical computer science and mechatronics. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
16. ↑ UMIT • Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
17. ↑ UMIT • Nursing Science and Gerontology. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
18. ↑ UMIT • Psychology and Medical Sciences. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
19. ↑ UMIT • Departments. Retrieved December 20, 2018 . 
20. ↑ UMIT • Departments. Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
21. ↑ UMIT - The Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology. courses
22. ↑ Website of the student union at UMIT

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