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The University of Freiburg features a modern library finished in December 2015. Founded in 1386, Heidelberg University is Germany's most ancient university and widely considered to be among the most prestigious. This is a list of the universities in Germany, of which there are about seventy.
This is a list of lists of universities and colleges by country, sorted by continent and region. The lists represent educational institutions throughout the world which provide higher education in tertiary , quaternary , and post-secondary education.
The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and distance learning centers. [1]
Heidelberg University is the oldest and among the most prestigious universities of Germany. It was established in 1386. Germany's universities are recognised internationally; in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2008, six of the top 100 universities in the world are in Germany, and 18 of the top 200. [62]
Germany universities navigational boxes (24 P) People by university or college in Germany (12 C) Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany (19 C, 87 P) *
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
Each university listed here is linked to an existing article, where more information and verifiable references can be found. (Column headings: 'DL' = distance learning , 'PC' = physical campus ) Africa
Germany: IU International University of Applied Sciences: 1998 Private 130,000 [10] ... South Africa: University of South Africa: 1873 Public 328,179