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32-651: The Van Hall Instituut is named after Herman van Hall (1801–74), a professor from the University of Groningen . Also the Van Hall Instituut has got a sorority named S.V. Osiris, that is founded on the first of Januari, 1996. All students of all the different majors or bachelors can become a member of this sorority. The Van Hall Instituut has two locations. University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG ; Dutch : Rijksuniversiteit Groningen , abbreviated as RUG )

64-662: A "branch campus" in China's Yantai were called off in January 2018, and the University Museum is now in the process of being established. The University of Groningen is represented in the Academic Heritage Foundation, a foundation that aims to preserve university collections and cultural treasures. The University of Groningen is organized in eleven faculties that offer programmes and courses in

96-672: A difficult relationship with the Regional Assembly and political problems that included the siege of the city by ‘ Bommen Berend ’ in 1672. On average two to three hundred students were registered with the university at any one time during this period. During the French occupation between 1775 and 1814 the University of Groningen was administered by the Imperial University of Paris . Unlike Leiden University, it

128-590: A new main university building, the Academiegebouw, was constructed in 1850, a building that was largely financed by the people of Groningen. A fire completely destroyed the building in 1906. In the meantime, the Higher Education Act of 1876 had radically improved the position of the university, which was renamed the " Rijksuniversiteit Groningen " (RUG). Teaching took place in Dutch and Latin and

160-647: Is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands . Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after Leiden ). The University of Groningen has eleven faculties , nine graduate schools , 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175-degree programmes. The university's alumni and faculty include Johann Bernoulli , Aletta Jacobs , four Nobel Prize winners, nine Spinoza Prize winners, one Stevin Prize winner, various members of

192-1076: Is a public university in Haidian , Beijing , China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China . It is part of Project 211 , Project 985 , and the Double First-Class Construction . The university was formed in 1995 through the merger of the Beijing Agricultural University and the Beijing Agricultural Engineering University, which evolved from one of the earliest agriculture institutions in China founded in 1905. As of December 2019, CAU offers 66 undergraduate majors and over 32 masters and 21 doctoral programs. There are around 12,000 undergraduate and 8,900 graduate students. Among them, 508 students are international. Its gymnasium hosted

224-506: Is that the Graduate Schools do not contain all Master's programmes; Graduate Schools manage and facilitate the two-year Master's programmes: top master's degree programmes and Research master's degree programmes. Notable alumni of the University of Groningen include: [REDACTED] Media related to Rijksuniversiteit Groningen at Wikimedia Commons China Agricultural University China Agricultural University ( CAU )

256-598: The Universiteitskrant  [ nl ] . The university's Center for Information Technology (CIT) houses an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer and data center of Target used by the LOFAR project as well as a Virtual Reality and 3D-visualisation center. The RUG has 6,250 employees. The university library was renovated between 2013 and 2017. The RUG has a branch in Leeuwarden. Plans to establish

288-585: The Dutch royal family , several politicians, the first president of the European Central Bank , and a secretary general of NATO . The institution was founded as a college in 1614 in an initiative taken by the Regional Assembly of the city of Groningen and the Ommelanden , or surrounding region. There were four faculties – Theology, Law, Medicine, and Philosophy. The coat of arms of

320-541: The Hanze University of Applied Sciences . The university, through ACLO, offers a wide range of sporting activities, and courses. Almost each sport has its own association, and offers the use of its facilities at discount rates for students. The university also has multiple student societies that organize social events for its members, as well as student and study associations, that are mostly concerned with specific faculties and courses. The use of bicycles as

352-591: The wrestling events during the 2008 Summer Olympics . The history of China Agricultural University can be traced back to 1905 when the College of Agriculture was founded in the former Imperial University of Peking . Beijing Agricultural University (BAU) was established in September 1949 through the merging of Peking University's College of Agriculture, Tsinghua University 's College of Agriculture and North China University 's College of Agriculture. In 1954, BAU

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384-572: The Depression, and in particular during the Second World War, the number of students grew rapidly from 1945 to reach 20,000 in 1994. In recent times there are about 32,700 students registered at the University of Groningen with the number of foreign students again growing steadily, and following the tradition set by the first Rector Magnificus, the number of German students and researchers has grown strongly in recent years. In March 2015,

416-571: The Netherlands. A significant number of students live in private accommodations within the city, however, a recent addition to the housing options for students is The Student Hotel as well. In an effort to combat the annual housing shortage, the city of Groningen has incentivized the construction of short-term accommodation such as The Village which is made of shipping containers for international students. The Dutch government has strict laws for private accommodations for both tenants (students) and

448-478: The RUG also has a partly independent liberal arts college , University College Groningen (UCG). The University of Groningen engages in many types of international cooperation throughout both teaching and research. The main networks and partners of the university are: The various faculties are housed around the city. Most of the faculties- including the faculties of Law, Arts and Philosophy are located in and around

480-609: The RUG signed an agreement with the China Agricultural University to establish a campus in the Chinese city of Yantai . This would have made the RUG the first Dutch university to open a campus in China. The plan was heavily criticised, mainly due to worries about the restriction of academic freedom caused by censorship in China . In January 2018, the plans were cancelled by the Executive Board of

512-498: The UG, based on the "insufficient support for the project". Key facts and figures about the University of Groningen are: The university operates under the BSA system, under which a first year undergraduate (bachelor) student must achieve a certain number of ECTS in order to progress to the second year. This varies from 30 ECTS to 45 ECTS among various degrees. RUG has its own newspaper:

544-523: The Zernike Campus, named after Nobel Prize winner Frits Zernike . The Zernike campus is also shared by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences , the other big university in the city, making the total number of students studying there around 40,000. The university has libraries in three locations: the main one at the city center, one in the Duisenberg building in Zernike Campus, and one in

576-406: The admitted PhD students came from abroad. In 2019, a total of 546 PhDs took place, 22 of them cum laude. The national share was thus around 11%. Humanities and Social Sciences Law Economics & Business Life Sciences Science and Engineering The University of Groningen's Graduate Schools are organized somewhat different from its international counterparts. The main difference

608-555: The city center. The university's original building, which acts as the main administrative building, lies exactly in the center of the city at the Broerstraat . The faculty of medical sciences is located close by at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The Faculties of Economics and Business, Spatial Sciences, and Science and Engineering are housed in the northern outskirts of the city, at

640-520: The faculty of medicine, that includes a vast array of books and online material for students. The university has also recently opened another campus in Leeuwarden, Friesland , referred to as "Campus Fryslân", that offers multiple disciplines in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The city of Groningen is known as the student city of the Netherlands; around one-third of the city's residents are students at either The University of Groningen or at

672-624: The fields of humanities, social sciences, law, economics and business, spatial sciences, life sciences, and natural sciences and technology. Each faculty ( cf. , College in the USA or School in Europe) is a formal grouping of academic degree programmes, schools and institutes, discipline areas, research centres, and/or any combination of these drawn together for educational purposes. Each faculty offers bachelor's, master's, PhD, and exchange programmes, while some also offer short certificate courses. Since 2014,

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704-489: The housing crisis hit its peak with hundreds of students reportedly not having any accommodation and resorting to emergency shelters. The housing shorting evoked a protest in the city centre which culminated in the Academy building being temporarily occupied by students to put pressure on the city to extend emergency housing. In 2019, 708 PhD students were admitted to a PhD programme (compared to 816 in 2018). Around 50% of

736-408: The landlords, so that fair rent prices, and renting conditions can be maintained. In 2018, the university received national attention due to the housing crisis in the city of Groningen. Due to the fact that most incoming students at the university are primarily from other parts of the country, or the world, there has been a lack of housing options for students. Especially in the fall semester of 2021

768-533: The means for transport is particularly prevalent for locals and students alike, and has integrated, labelled bike paths from the city center to Zernike. The city is popularly referred to as "The World Cycling City" because of this. The University of Groningen does not have student accommodation. It does, however, offer students with accommodation via SSH Student Housing , which operates student houses in various locations in Groningen, and various other cities within

800-463: The students and lecturers came from outside the Netherlands – the first rector magnificus , Ubbo Emmius , came from East Frisia in modern-day Germany, for instance – but at the same time there was already a close relationship between the university and the city and the surrounding region. The development of the university came to a standstill at the end of the seventeenth and during the eighteenth century because of theological differences of opinion,

832-501: The university has become the top academic institution in China in terms of agricultural studies. Rugby re-emerged in the PRC in 1990, with a club formed at Beijing Agricultural University. A professor there, Chao Xihuang, was introduced to the sport by a Japanese businessman, and set up a couple of sides. The China Agricultural University appeared in the world’s top 500 universities in the global university ranking in 2007 . As of 2024,

864-487: The university was confirmed by The Estates of the City and County of Groningen in 1615. It consists of the provincial arms, charged with an open book inscribed with the abbreviated words VER/BVM/DNI LV/CER/NA, short for Verbum Domini Lucerna Pedibus Nostris . The shield is surmounted by a golden crown of five leaves and four pearls. In the first 75 years of its existence about 100 students enrolled every year. Almost half of

896-404: The university was given a research as well as an educational duty. The University of Groningen developed during the first decades of the twentieth century. The number of faculties and courses grew steadily while the number of students grew rapidly. When the university celebrated its first 300 years in 1914 there were 611 registered students; this had grown to 1,000 by 1924. After a drop back during

928-557: The university was listed as one of the top 300 global universities in the World University Rankings. The China Agricultural University is regarded as one of the world's top agricultural research institutions. As of 2024, China Agricultural University is ranked the best university in the world in " Agricultural Sciences " by the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ,

960-744: Was listed by the State Council as one of the Top-Six National Key Universities as well as one of the Top-Ten Key Universities for further construction and improvement. In October 1952, BAU's Department of Agricultural Machinery, North China College of Agricultural Machinery and Ministry of Agriculture's Central Agricultural Mechanization School merged to form the Beijing Mechanized Agricultural College, which

992-563: Was not shut down and the institute was renamed Imperial University of Groningen ( Keizerlijke Universiteit Groningen ). During this time period, it remained the only open university in the Kingdom of Holland . In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, at the same time as Leiden and Utrecht, the university gained recognition as a national college of higher education, but this was followed by discussions about closure. The situation improved when

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1024-520: Was renamed Beijing Agricultural Mechanization Institute (BAMI) in July 1953. The BAMI was listed by the State Council in October 1960 as one of the 64 National Key Universities and then renamed again as Beijing Agricultural Engineering University (BAEU) in 1985. In 1995, Beijing Agricultural University and Beijing Agricultural Engineering University merged as China Agricultural University (CAU). Since then,

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