History
The university was founded in 1973 building on a school for the training of teachers that had existed since 1945. In the summer semester of 1974, the university introduced an education curriculum with 2400 students. In 1991, it was officially named after the writer and Nobel laureate Carl von Ossietzky. The number of students passed the mark of 10,000 in 1991. By the end of 2011, there were about 11,325 students. Due to the Bologna process, the university changed its course structure to offer Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees starting in 2004.
In 2012, the university founded the faculty of medicine and health sciences, introducing a 12-semester course in human medicine, which leads students to the German state examination, Staatsexamen, a prerequisite to practice as a physician. The new faculty is part of the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS), a cooperation between the University of Oldenburg, the University of Groningen (Netherlands), and local hospitals.
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