Editing University of Twente (section)

==History==
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The university was founded in 1961 as ''Technische Hogeschool Twente'' (''THT''). After [[Delft University of Technology]] and [[Eindhoven University of Technology]], it became the third polytechnic institute in the Netherlands to become a university. The institution was later renamed to Universiteit Twente (University of Twente) in 1986, as the result of the changes in the Dutch Academic Education Act in 1984.

The Dutch government's decision to locate the country's third technical university in Enschede, the main city of [[Twente]], had much to do with the north-eastern province's rich manufacturing industry (textiles, metal, electrical engineering, chemicals). Another important consideration was the fact that the local economy needed a boost to compensate for the dwindling textile industry. The municipality of Enschede made the Drienerlo estate available for the first campus University of the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the University of Twente |url=http://www.esntwente.nl/content/history-university-twente |access-date=26 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203022225/http://www.esntwente.nl/content/history-university-twente |archive-date=3 February 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/about/History/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129085100/https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/about/History/ |date=2019-11-29 }} |accessdate=22 August 2019|</ref>