Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands, and one of the largest in Europe. It is rated as the sixth best University in Europe^* in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 26,787 students in 2004, and employed 8,224 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors. In 2004, 358 Ph.D. degrees were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published. The 2004 budget of the university was 653 million euro.

The university's motto is "Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos", which means "Sun of Justice, shine upon us".

Utrecht University is led by the University Board, consisting of Yvonne van Rooy (president), prof.dr. Willem Hendrik Gispen (rector magnificus) and Hans Amman.

The university consists of seven faculties:

Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Department of Arts
- Department of Theology
- Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance
Faculty of Geosciences
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Science
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Information and Computer Science
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Department of Physics and Astronomy

There are three interfaculty units:

University College / Roosevelt Academy
Ethics Institute
IVLOS Institute of Education

The two large faculties of Humanities and Law are situated in the inner city of Utrecht. The other five faculties, as well as most of the administrative services, are located in De Uithof, a campus area in the outskirts of the city. University College is situated in the former Kromhout Kazerne, which used to be a Dutch military base.

Notable alumni

Universiteit Utrecht counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates:

C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
Clarence Barlow (composer)
Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
James Boswell (author, lawyer)
Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
Michael Clyne (linguist)
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, (author, lawyer)
Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist and physiologist)
Marcel Minnaert (astronomer)
Heiko Oberman (historian)
Perizonius (scholar)
Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
Jan Terlouw (politician)
J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Hugh Williamson (politician)
J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.
Els Borst (minister of Health)

Other Higher Education institutions in Utrecht

University of Professional Education Utrecht (HU - Hogeschool Utrecht)
Utrecht School of the Arts ( HKU - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)
University College Utrecht (UCU) International Honors College of Utrecht University
Roosevelt Academy (RA) International Honors College of Utrecht University located in Middelburg, Zeeland

External links

Utrecht University WWW page

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Notable alumni

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