Utrecht University ( Netherlands. Universiteit Utrecht ) is a Dutch university located in Utrecht , one of the oldest in the country.
| University of Utrecht | |
|---|---|
| Universiteit Utrecht | |
| International name | Utrecht university |
| Former names | Athenaeum illustre |
| Motto | Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos (Latin) |
| Year of foundation | 1636 |
| Type of | State |
| Rector | Prof. dr. Bert van der zwaan |
| Students | 30 374 (2015) |
| Foreign students | 1683 (2015) |
| Professors | 637 (2015) |
| Location |  Utrecht , Netherlands |
| Site | uu.nl |
Education is carried out both in the state Dutch and in English at the most popular faculties . Utrecht University traditionally specializes in law , various humanities and social sciences. Recently, natural and biomedical sciences have been developed. The annual budget of the university in 2017 amounted to 810 million euros [1] .
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University History
It was founded on March 26, 1636 in the United Provinces . In 1817, received the status of a royal university, and since 1961 it has become a public university. The number of students is constantly growing: from 12.9 thousand students in the 1974/1975 academic year [2] to about 23 thousand students in the early 1990s, and up to 30 thousand according to the data for the 2015/2016 academic year , of which about 1.7 thousand are international students [3] .
Faculties
- Faculty of Humanities
- Department of Languages and Art
- Department of Philosophy and Religion
- Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Faculty of Law , Economics and Management
- Faculty of Geosciences
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Department of Physical Geography
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Innovation Research
- Department of Urban Planning and Socio-Economic Geography
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Information Technology
- Department of Pharmacy
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- School of Economics, University of Utrecht
- Law School of Utrecht University
- University of Utrecht School of Management
Famous Graduates
- Peter Cornelis Bautens , Dutch poet and translator
- Blombergen, Nicholas , physicist, Nobel laureate
- Val, France de , ethologist
- Weltman, Martinus , physicist, Nobel laureate
- Gijsbert van Tiinhoven , Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
- Peter van de Camp , astronomer
- Kaptein, Jacobus Cornelius , astronomer
- Kate, Jan-Jacob Lodeweik ten , priest and poet
- Coopmans, Tjalling , economist and mathematician, Nobel laureate
- Malan, Daniel Francois , Priest and Politician
- Overmars, Marcus Hendrick , Computer Games Specialist
- Paice, Abraham , theoretical physicist, historian of science
- 't Hooft, Gerard , physicist, Nobel laureate
- Chantepi de la Sosset, Pierre Daniel , theologian , historian of religion
- Einthoven, Willem , physiologist, Nobel laureate
See also
- Utrecht Network
Notes
- ↑ Facts and figures, English , University of Utrecht official website (January 13, 2015). Date of appeal March 31, 2018.
- ↑ Utrecht University // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ Facts and figures - Organization - Universiteit Utrecht . www.uu.nl. Date of treatment October 23, 2015.