Education in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is home to 14 universities and over 50 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 500,000 students.^[1] Largest and oldest university is the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), founded in 1388 AD.

• the RWTH Aachen University
• the University of Bielefeld
• 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