Education in North Rhine-Westphalia explained

North Rhine-Westphalia is home to 14 universities and over 50 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 500,000 students.^[1] Largest and oldest university is the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), founded in 1388 AD.

List of universities and colleges

• the RWTH Aachen University
• the University of Bielefeld
• the University of Bochum
• the University of Bonn
• the University of Cologne
• the German Sport University Cologne
• the TU Dortmund University
• the University of Duisburg-Essen
• the University of Düsseldorf
• the FernUniversität Hagen
• the University of Münster
• the University of Paderborn
• the University of Siegen
• the Witten/Herdecke University
• the University of Wuppertal

Notes and References

1. Web site: innovation.nrw.de: students in NRW by university or college, 2010 . 2011-04-11 . 2010-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101207104349/http://www.innovation.nrw.de/objekt-pool/download_dateien/hochschulen_und_forschung/Statistik_und_Planung/2010/6_Studierende_nach_Hochschulen.pdf . dead .