Education
The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan region is home to five universities and over 20 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 200.000 students. The largest university is the Goethe University Frankfurt and the oldest is the University of Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), originally founded in 1477 AD. Other universities include:
- the Darmstadt University of Technology,
- the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and
- the European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen.
Notable colleges and universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen) include:
- the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences,
- the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences,
- the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
- the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and
- the Städelschule.
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