University of Osnabrück
| Universität Osnabrück | |
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| Latin: Universitas Osnabrugensis | |
| Type | public |
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| Established | 1974 |
| President | Claus R. Rollinger |
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Academic staff
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209 |
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Administrative staff
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713 |
| Students | 11,034 |
| Location | Osnabrück, Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | EUA |
| Website | www |
The University of Osnabrück (German: Universität Osnabrück) is a renowned public research university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany.
In 2011 it was attended by 11,034 students; the staff of 1,858 consisted of 209 professors, 936 additional academic personnel (lecturers without professorships, post-doctoral researchers and post-graduate assistants) and 713 non-academic personnel. The university is known for a large number of interdisciplinary degree programmes, some of them rare or even unique among German universities, including European Studies, Applied Systems Science and Cognitive Science. Notably, the university is well known for its research in cognitive science, peace and conflict studies, democratic governance, European Studies, among many others.
In addition, the university, through its Master of Arts in Democratic Governance and Civil Society graduate program, is also part of the highly prestigious DAAD Public Policy and Good Governance Scholarships for Developing Countries, along with other reputable institutions in political science and public policy such as the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt. The program attracts the best and the brightest young leaders from Asia, Latin America, and Africa to study in selected German universities for a policy-oriented Master's program.
Former President of Germany, Christian Wulff, is an alumnus of the university.
Higher education began in 1632 in Osnabrück when the Gymnasium Carolinum was upgraded into a Jesuit university. However, the Academia Carolina Osnabrugensis was closed just one year later when Swedish troops recaptured Osnabrück for the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War.
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