Education in North Rhine-Westphalia
# 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
