Graz University of Technology University of Graz. The university has a staff of 3,324. Research areas are combined in five fields of expertise. "TU Graz", the "University of Leoben" and "TU Wien" form the network "Austrian Universities of Technology (TU Austria)" with approximately 47,000 students and 9,000 staff. The university has multiple campuses, as it is mainly situated on three sites in the city, two in the centre of Graz and one in the southeast of the city. Campus buildings at the Graz University of Technology 1811: The Joanneum is founded by Archduke John of Austria. The first subjects taught were physics, chemistry, astronomy,
Graz in which the peasantry is taught how to organize and fight in the case of an invasion. With a strategic location at the head of the open and fertile Mur valley, Graz was often assaulted (unsuccessfully), e.g. by the Hungarians under Matthias Corvinus in 1481, and by the Ottoman Turks in 1529 and 1532. Apart from the Riegersburg Castle, the Schlossberg was the only fortification in the region that never fell to the Ottoman Turks. Graz is home to the region's provincial armory, which is the world's largest historical collection of late medieval and Renaissance weaponry. It has been preserved