Paracelsus Medical University (PMU) is an institution organised as a private foundation with locations in Salzburg and Nuremberg. Teaching, research and patient care – these are the three pillars on which the university was founded in 2002, and which continue to have the highest priority. With 22 university institutes, three research centres and six research programs, it was possible to build – together with the Salzburg University Hospitals –a first-class educational offer and excellent research at the Salzburg location. In February 2014, the Paracelsus Medical University built, in cooperation with the Nuremberg Hospital, a second location in Nuremberg. Since August 2014, also future doctors have been educated there within the framework of the human medicine study program. The education offer of Paracelsus University in Salzburg comprises the study of human medicine, the study in pharmacy (subject to the accreditation with the winter semester 2017/18) and nursing science as well as postgraduate doctorate degree study programs in medical science, molecular medicine and nursing & allied health sciences, as well as a number of university and further education programs.