Editing Saxony (section)

== Education ==
Saxony's school system is one of the most excellent within Germany; it has been ranked first in the German school assessment ([https://www.insm-bildungsmonitor.de Bildungsmonitor]) for several years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.schule.sachsen.de/error404.html|title=Fehler 404 – sachsen.de|first=Staatsministerium für|last=Kultus|website=www.schule.sachsen.de}}</ref>

Saxony has four large universities, six {{lang|de|Fachhochschulen}} (Universities of Applied Sciences) and six [[art school]]s.

[[File:TU-Dresden-Georg-Schumann-Bau.jpg|thumb|right|[[TU Dresden]] is the largest university in Saxony.]]
The [[Dresden University of Technology]] (TU Dresden), founded in 1828, is one of Germany's oldest universities. With 36,066 students, as of 2010, it is the largest [[university]] in Saxony and one of the ten largest universities in Germany. It is a member of [[TU9]], a consortium of nine leading German Institutes of Technology.

[[Leipzig University]], founded in 1409, is one of the oldest universities in the world, and the [[List of universities in Germany#Universities by date of establishment|second-oldest]] university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. Famous alumni include [[Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Leopold von Ranke|Ranke]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Cai Yuanpei]], [[Angela Merkel]], [[Raila Odinga]], and [[Tycho Brahe]]; the university is, additionally, associated with nine Nobel laureates.

With over 11,000 students, the [[Chemnitz University of Technology]] is the third largest university in Saxony.

Established in 1765, the [[Freiberg University of Mining and Technology]], located in the former mining town of [[Freiberg]], is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tu-freiberg.de/en/university/profiles/history |title=From the history of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg |website=tu-freiberg.de |access-date=2020-09-25 |archive-date=12 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812092534/https://tu-freiberg.de/en/university/profiles/history |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Saxony is home to several [[Max Planck Institutes]] and research institutions of the [[Fraunhofer Society]], and one of the two main campuses of the [[German National Library]] is located in Leipzig.