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. Largest and oldest university is the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), founded in 1388 AD.

List of universities and colleges

 * 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