University of Groningen

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The University of Groningen ( Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ), short RUG, is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. It was founded on August 23, 1614 in Groningen. Until 1876 was the language of Latin. The first rector was Ubbo Emmius.

Today, more than 20,000 students are enrolled at the University in the Bachelor and Master degree programs in nine faculties, 775 more students are working towards a doctorate. Every year, about 2,500 students, the university with a degree. The University of Groningen is so by the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the third largest university in the Netherlands. The University Library Groningen, according to the Leiden University Library, the second largest University Library of the Netherlands and the University is adjacent to the University of Leiden, one of two Dutch members of the Coimbra Group.

The motto of the University is: " plants aan de van het beting limits " ( German: working on the fringes of known knowledge).

The University participates in the ERASMUS scholarship program. Since 1994, the State University operates as an external partner with some German universities in the Association of North German Universities to enhance teaching and research.

The university was counted by the Centre for Higher Education Development at the so-called Excellence Group of the 56 best universities in Europe in 2007. With English-taught programs and 61% of foreign doctoral students ( the highest percentage of all universities in the Excellence Group ), the University of Groningen to a comparatively high degree of internationalization.

Key Figures 2011

  • 27,600 students ( October 1, 2010 )
  • 5,597 freshmen ( October 1, 2010 )
  • 4,897 FTE staff (including UMCG )
  • 450 professors (including UMCG )
  • 1500 PhD (including UMCG )
  • 54 Bachelor's degree programs, 116 master's degree programs
  • 83 English-language Master's programs, of which 15 Double Degree programs and eight Erasmus Mundus programs
  • 9 English bachelor programs
  • 16 Research Masters Courses
  • 9 faculties, 9 ' graduate schools '
  • 576 million Euro turnover
  • 2012 landed the RUG on the 89th of the Times " World University Rankings ".

Famous graduates

Politician

  • Hajo pharmacist, former Minister for tonight's Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Mayor of Steenwijkerland, student of sociology, graduate of 1974
  • Annie Brouwer - Korf, mayor of Utrecht, a law student, graduate 1970
  • Suzy Camelia -Römer, chairman of the National Volkspartij (NVP ) / Partido di Pueblo Nashonal (PNP), former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, a student of Law, Graduate 1981
  • Job Cohen ( b. 1947 ), leader of the Social Democrats ( PvdA) in Parliament, former Mayor of Amsterdam and former State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, a law student, graduate 1971
  • Willem Frederik Duisenberg (1935-2005), former President of the European Central Bank, Economics student, graduated 1961
  • Frank de Grave, a member of the Tweede Kamer as Members of the VVD and Vice - Chairman, former Defense Minister and State Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs, law student, graduate 1979
  • Arie Slob (* 1961), politician ChristianUnion, Member of the Second Chamber, a graduate in 1990
  • Pieter Jelle Troelstra (1860-1930), socialist politician, a law student, graduate 1888
  • Bert de Vries, former Minister of Social Affairs, a student of economics, graduate 1974
  • Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969 ), German politician (The Left ), student of philosophy, graduate of 1996
  • Jacques Wallage ( b. 1946 ), Mayor of Groningen, former Chairman of the Partij van de Arbeid in the Tweede Kamer and former Secretary of State for Education and Science Ministry and the Ministry of Social Affairs, student of sociology, graduate of 1971
  • Gerrit Ybema, former State Secretary of Economic Affairs, a student of Economics, 1977 graduate
  • Para Manga Yonli Ernest ( born 1956 ), Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, a student of economics and PhD student in 1997
  • Etienne Ys, demissionierter president of the Netherlands Antilles, a law student, graduate 1985
  • Half Zijlstra (born 1969 ), Dutch Culture Secretary of State since 2010

Scientist

  • Wubbo Ockels ( b. 1946 ), the first Dutchman in space as an ESA astronaut Spacelab (1985 ), student of physics and mathematics, graduated in 1973
  • Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992), astronomer, namesake of asteroid 1691 Oort, student of Astronomy, Graduate 1921
  • Jantine Tammes, (1871 - 1947), a botanist, a student and later associate professor at the University of
  • Wijnand van der Sanden ( b. 1953 ) Dutch prehistorians and provincial archaeologist, graduated in 1990
  • Frits Zernike (1888-1966), Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1953. He was assistant in 1913 by Jacobus C. Kapteyn at Groningen University and received his doctorate in 1915 on the critical opalescence. Subsequently, he taught as a professor of mathematical physics in Groningen in 1920 and received a professorship.

Other

  • Prince Bernhard, Jr., Economics, 1995 graduate
  • Prince Maurits, Economics, 1995 graduate
  • Princess Marilène, Business Administration, 1994
  • Richard van Rijssen, diplomat, philosophy of law and civil law, 1979
  • Epke Zonderland, gymnast and first Olympic medal in the gymnastics men for the Netherlands
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