Editing Nijmegen (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Erasmusgebouw Erasmusplein 1 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen gezien vanaf Heyendaalseweg.jpg|thumb|[[Radboud University Nijmegen]]]]
Nijmegen is host to [[Radboud University Nijmegen]]. Founded in 1923 as the first [[Catholicism|Catholic]] university in the Netherlands, it used to be called ''Catholic University of Nijmegen'' until 2004, when it took its current name. {{As of|2018|October|df=}}, it had 22,142 students and 4,921 staff.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ru.nl/english/about-us/our-university-0/facts-figures/|title=Facts & Figures|date=May 30, 2019|website=Radboud University|access-date=May 30, 2019|archive-date=May 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530063242/https://www.ru.nl/english/about-us/our-university-0/facts-figures/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Radboud University runs the High Field Magnetic Laboratory which is able to achieve some of the highest fields available in Europe at 38 [[tesla (unit)|teslas]] (continuous). The facility is available to outside users, primarily for research purposes.

[[File:HR-HAN-Nijmgn-5857.jpg|thumb|alt=HAN Building in Nijmegen with big HAN letters|[[HAN University of Applied Sciences]] in Nijmegen]]Nijmegen is also home to [[HAN University of Applied Sciences]], one of the largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Founded in 1996 through the merger of several institutions, HAN has over 35,000 students and 4,000 staff members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hanuniversity.com/en/about-us/han-organization/annual-report/|title=Annual Report 2023|date=2023|website=HAN University of Applied Sciences|access-date=March 4, 2024}}</ref> It offers a wide range of bachelor's and master's programs, with a strong focus on applied research and professional development. The university has campuses in both Nijmegen and Arnhem, with its education, medical, and health-related programs, based in Nijmegen.

In addition to these institutions, there is also an intermediate-level vocational school and a number of secondary schools: Groenschool Nijmegen, Kandinsky College, Nijmeegse Scholengemeenschap Groenewoud (NSG), Citadel College, Stedelijke Scholengemeenschap Nijmegen (SSGN), Canisius College, St. Jorisschool, Mondial College, the Stedelijk Gymnasium (formally the "Latijnse school", founded in the 16th century), the Karel de Grote College, Montessori College and the Dominicus College. Of note is also [[Leefwerkschool Eigenwijs]], which caters to students from all over the Netherlands who have been repeatedly expelled from "regular" high schools. Leefwerkschool Eigenwijs has its roots in the local activist movement of the early 1980s and is the only school of its kind recognised in the Netherlands.

Nijmegen is also an important centre of [[Psycholinguistics]], home to the [[Max Planck Institute]] of Psycholinguistics and the [[F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging]].

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 was awarded to [[Andre Geim]] and [[Konstantin Novoselov]] while at Radboud University "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material [[graphene]]."