Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Latin name	none
Motto	In Dei Nomine Feliciter (May we proceed with happiness in God's name.)
Established	1923
School type	Public, general
Rector magnificus	Prof. dr. C.W.P.M. Blom
Location	Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Enrollment	16,351 students (2003)
Faculty	unknown (2003)
Member	EUA
Homepage	www.ru.nl

The Radboud University Nijmegen, formerly called University of Nijmegen is the university of the Dutch city of Nijmegen. Currently, more than 16.000 undergraduates and postgraduates attend the university, which is about 8 % of all university students in the Netherlands.

It was founded in 1923 as a result of the emancipation process of the Catholics in the south of the Netherlands. Its Catholic identity is still reflected by the obligatory philosophy course.

The university has been renamed Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) in 2004, after Saint Radbod, a Catholic bishop and scientist who lived around 900. Until 31 August, 2004, the official (Dutch) name was Katholieke Universiteit van Nijmegen (KUN), which means Catholic University of Nijmegen.

Contents

1 Location 2 Available courses 3 Discoveries and inventions 4 External links

Location

The university buildings are scattered around a leafy campus called Heyendaal. The abundance of building sites characterise the university's desire to modernise its campus. Building projects include new halls of residence, a sports centre (completed in 2003) and several modern science buildings.

The university campus is located right next to the Nijmegen Heyendaal railway station. Frequent shuttle buses connect the university to the Central Station and city centre.

Available courses

Some of the subjects that can be studied:

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Molecular Life Sciences
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Computer science
• Medicine
• Philosophy
• Theology
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Cognitive Science
• Economics
• Classics
• many languages

Discoveries and inventions

The computer science department at RU created the Clean programming language.

External links

• Official Site (http://www.ru.nl/)
  • English version (http://www.ru.nl/aspx/get.aspx?xdl=/views/run/xdl/page&ItmIdt=44&SitIdt=22&VarIdt=13)
• Faculty of Theology (http://www.ru.nl/theo/)
• Faculty of Philosophy (http://www.ru.nl/phil/)
• Faculty of Arts (http://www.ru.nl/let/)
• Faculty of Law (http://www.ru.nl/jur/)
• Faculty of Social Sciences (http://www.ru.nl/socialewetenschappen/)
• Faculty of Management (http://www.ru.nl/fm/)
• Faculty of Science (http://www.ru.nl/fnwi/)
• University Medical Centre St Radboud.  (http://www.umcn.nl/)

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