Education in Austria

thumb|240px|High-school students in Szczecin, Poland, waiting to take a exam in 2005 '''' or its translated terms (mature, matur, , , , , '', ) is a Latin name for the secondary school exit exam or "maturity diploma" in various European countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.

overview of the educational system in Austria

thumb|Students of the Münsterschule in Bonn in 1954 The German term Volksschule () generally refers to compulsory education, denoting an educational institution every person (i.e. the people, Volk) is required to attend.

thumb|a view of Pázmáneum university

A Diplom (, from ) is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine and only for engineers in France, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Brazil.

The Studienkolleg is a public educational institution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, for students whose secondary school certificate is not recognized as equivalent to the Abitur. It is a preparatory course or first year program for academic studies at university.