Education in North Rhine-Westphalia
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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
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- 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