Editing Groningen (section)

==Education==
[[File:Gymmnasium school Groningen at 23 April 2014 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|[[Praedinius Gymnasium]] in Groningen is one of the two [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium schools]] in the city.]]
[[File:Academy Building of RUG on May 27, 2019.jpg|thumb|right|Academy Building of the [[University of Groningen]] in 2019]]

As of 2020, around 25% of the 230,000 inhabitants in Groningen are students. The city has the highest density of students and the lowest mean age in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |title=Groningen: Student City |publisher=Accord of Groningen |url=https://groningen.nl/en/study/discover-student-life/groningen-student-city |website=groningen.nl |access-date=10 August 2020 |archive-date=9 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230809100718/https://groningen.nl/en/study/discover-student-life/groningen-student-city |url-status=dead }}</ref>

There are also Middle Schools, such as [[H.N. Werkman College]]

The [[University of Groningen]] (in Dutch: ''[[Rijksuniversiteit Groningen]]''), established in 1614 is the second oldest university in the Netherlands (after the [[University of Leiden]]).<ref name="Essen2013">{{cite book |author=Arthur Joseph van Essen |title=E. Kruisinga: A Chapter in the History of Linguistics in the Netherlands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ly74CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |date=11 November 2013 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-017-5618-1 |page=37}}</ref> The university educated the country's first female student, [[Aletta Jacobs]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jacobs |first1=Aletta |editor1-last=Feinberg |editor1-first=Harriet |translator-last=Wright |translator-first=Annie|title=Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage, and Peace |date=1996 |publisher=Feminist Press |location=New York, New York |page=15 |isbn=978-1-558-61138-2 |edition=English |url=https://archive.org/details/memoriesmylifeas00jaco/page/7}}</ref> the first Dutch national astronaut, [[Wubbo Ockels]],<ref name="Agency2014">{{cite book |author=European Space Agency |title=Bulletin Agence Spatiale Européenne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeI24Mn9ou8C |edition=157-160 |year=2014 |publisher=ESA Publications Division |page=84}}</ref> the first president of the [[European Central Bank]], [[Wim Duisenberg]],<ref name="Koopmans2015" /> and two [[Nobel laureates]]; [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] (in Physics) and [[Ben Feringa]] (in Chemistry).<ref name="Agarwal2008">{{cite book |author=Arun Agarwal |title=Nobel Prize Winners in Physics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyOBx2R2CxEC&pg=PA80 |year=2008 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=978-81-7648-743-6 |page=80}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/science/1978/b.l.feringa/ |title=Asymmetric oxidation of phenols. Atropisomerism and optical activity |access-date=6 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106103147/http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/science/1978/b.l.feringa/ |archive-date=6 January 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The university has about 31,000 students 22% of whom are international.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rug.nl/about-us/where-do-we-stand/facts-and-figures/?lang=en |title=Key figures |website=rug.nl |date=14 July 2004 |publisher=University of Groningen |access-date=11 August 2020}}</ref>

The [[Hanze University of Applied Sciences]] (in Dutch: ''[[Hanze University of Applied Sciences|Hanzehogeschool Groningen]]'') was founded in 1986 and is more focused on the practical application of knowledge, offering bachelor and master courses in fields like Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Communication and Multimedia Design, and Renewable Energy.<ref name="hanzeuniversity1">{{cite web |url=http://www.hanze.nl/home/International/About+Us/About+Hanze+University+Groningen/History+Hanze+University+Groningen.htm |title=History – Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen |publisher=Hanze University of Applied Sciences |access-date=27 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126092759/http://www.hanze.nl/home/International/About+Us/About+Hanze+University+Groningen/History+Hanze+University+Groningen.htm |archive-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hanze.nl/eng/organisation/overviews/programmes?owstaxIdHanzeEducationType=6e4b7c29-bab8-4111-bc03-56dc6c60790d&owstaxIdHanzeEducationType=7cba9c13-4940-4214-ab5e-ec5f2f0256ba |title=Programmes |website=hanze.nl |publisher=Hanze University of Applied Sciences |language=en-GB |access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref> With around 8.1% international students, Hanze hosts more than 28,000 students and is one of the largest universities of applied sciences by enrollment in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hanze.nl/eng/organisation/hanze-uas/facts-figures |title=Facts & Figures |publisher=Hanze University of Applied Sciences |website=hanze.nl |language=en-GB |access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref>