Graz in the 50s – when the TU was full of Iranian students

It is a little-researched part of the history of migration: that of students who move to another country. “In the 1950s, there were up to two thirds of foreign students at Graz University of Technology – at that time a technical university,” says historian Joachim Hainzl from the Xenos association. Because: “After the state treaty, Austria aggressively advertised in other countries for students.”