Er gaat niets boven Groningen
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Student city
For centuries Groningen has been popular with students, both prospective and ex-students.
'Youngest' city in the Netherlands
Groningen has approximately 46,000 students in higher education and university out of a total population of 182,000. With around half under the age of 35, Groningen has no reservations about awarding itself the title ‘youngest’ city in the Netherlands. What are the roots of this popularity? Groningen offers everything you would expect from a city but none of the anonymity, lack of safety and chronic accommodation problems that blight many cities this size. In addition, almost every educational programme you can think of is available in the city.
University of Groningen and Hanze University Groningen
Taken together, the traditional yet modern university and the Hanze University Groningen, including the International Business school, Academy Minerva and the Academy of pop culture, offer more than 175 different study programmes. There is a clear economic spin-off from this prominent educational presence; for example the Groningen division of multinational DSM can be attributed directly to two graduate chemists who started out on their own. Many high quality jobs in care, ICT, education and the creative sector can be directly sourced back to Groningen’s centres of higher education.
