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Universities and research institutions in Berlin

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The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in the world.{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-germany|title=Best universities in Germany 2017|work=THE|access-date=22 September 2016 }} It is the largest concentration of universities and colleges in Germany. The city has four public research universities and 27 private, professional and technical colleges (Hochschulen), offering a wide range of disciplines.{{cite web|url=http://www.berlin-partner.de/622/?L=1|title=Metropolis of Sciences|work=Berlin Partner GmbH|access-date=19 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424003113/http://www.berlin-partner.de/622/?L=1 |archive-date=24 April 2008}} Access to the German university system is tuition free.

175,000 students were enrolled in the winter term of 2014/15.{{cite web|url=http://www.focus.de/regional/brandenburg/hochschulen-berlin-mit-neuem-studentenrekord_id_5111299.html|title=HochschulenBerlin mit neuem Studentenrekord|work=Focus|date=25 November 2015|access-date=1 December 2015|language=de}} Around 20% have an international background. Student figures have grown by 50% in the last 15 years. The Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) has 34,000 students, the Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin, FU Berlin) has 34,000 students, and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) around 30,000 students. The Universität der Künste (UdK) has about 4,000 students and the Berlin School of Economics and Law has enrollment of about 10,000 students.

40 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated to the Berlin-based universities.

History

The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: Preußische Akademie der Künste) was an art school set up in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Prussia. It had a decisive influence on art and its development in the German-speaking world throughout its existence. It dropped 'Prussian' from its name in 1945 and was finally disbanded in 1955 after the 1954 foundation of two separate academies of art for East Berlin and West Berlin in 1954. Those two separate academies merged in 1993 to form Berlin's present-day Academy of Arts.

The Humboldt University of Berlin is one of Berlin's oldest universities, founded in 1810{{cite web|url=https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ihe/article/viewFile/8499/7633 |title=International Higher Education : Countries and rEgions |website=Ejournals.bc.edu |access-date=2016-08-28}} as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.

Universities

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There are six large internationally renowned research universities in the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region:

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There are seven recognized private universities in Berlin:

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Berlin has several public or private universities of applied sciences (Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften):

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Research institutions

Berlin has a high density of research institutions, such as the Fraunhofer Society, the Leibniz Association, the Helmholtz Association, and the Max Planck Society, which are independent of, or only loosely connected to its universities. A total number of around 65,000 scientists are working in research and development in 2012. The city is one of the centers of knowledge and innovation communities (Future Information and Communication Society and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).{{cite web|url=http://eit.europa.eu/home.html|title=European Institute of Innovation and Technology: Home|work=Europa (web portal)|access-date=8 June 2010}}

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Under Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. (FVB) (Research Association of Berlin):

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  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik
  • Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) [http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de]
  • Sino-German Mobile Communications Institute
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS) [http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de]
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK) [http://www.ipk.fraunhofer.de]
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik (integrated into FOKUS in 2012) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060208025248/http://www.first.fraunhofer.de/]
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik (integrated into FOKUS in 2012) [http://www.isst.fraunhofer.de]
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) [http://www.izm.fraunhofer.de]

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Nobel Prize winners

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There are 43 Nobel laureates affiliated with the Berlin-based universities:

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* 1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Chemistry)
  • 1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (Chemistry)
  • 1929 Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry)
  • 1931 Otto Heinrich Warburg (Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1932 Werner Heisenberg (Physics)
  • 1933 Erwin Schrödinger (Physics)
  • 1935 Hans Spemann (Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1936 Peter Debye (Chemistry)
  • 1939 Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry)
  • 1944 Otto Hahn (Chemistry)
  • 1950 Kurt Alder (Chemistry)
  • 1950 Otto Diels (Chemistry)
  • 1953 Fritz Albert Lipmann (Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1953 Hans Adolf Krebs (Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1954 Max Born (Physics)
  • 1956 Walther Bothe (Physics)
  • 1986 Ernst Ruska (Physics)
  • 1991 Bert Sakmann (Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1994 Reinhard Selten (Economics)
  • 2007 Gerhard Ertl (Chemistry)
  • 2009 Herta Müller (Literature)

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