North Rhine-Westphalia is home to 14 universities and over 50 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 500,000 students. 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 Bielefeld University 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 the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences
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