Education
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region is home to nine universities and over 30 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 300.000 students. Largest and oldest university is the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), originally founded in 1388 AD. Other universities include:
- the University of Bochum,
- the University of Bonn,
- the German Sport University Cologne,
- the Dortmund University of Technology,
- the University of Duisburg-Essen,
- the University of Düsseldorf,
- the FernUniversität Hagen and
- the University of Wuppertal.
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