Editing Utrecht (section)

==Education==
[[File:Utrecht-Uithof, from CambridgeLaan 01.jpg|thumb|View on the Science Park campus of [[Utrecht University]] with the university library (centre), 2004]]

Utrecht hosts several large institutions of higher education. The most prominent of these is [[Utrecht University]] (est. 1636), the largest university of the [[Netherlands]] with 30,449 students ({{As of|2012|lc=y}}). The university is partially based in the inner city as well as in the [[Uithof]] campus area, on the east side of the city. According to [[Shanghai Jiaotong University]]'s university ranking in 2014, it is the 57th-best university in the world.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.shanghairanking.com |title=World-University-Rankings |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Utrecht-University.html |access-date=30 March 2015 |archive-date=3 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403235146/http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Utrecht-University.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Utrecht also houses the much smaller [[University of Humanistic Studies]], which houses about 400 students.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the University of Humanistic Studies (Dutch) |url=http://www.uvh.nl/organisatie/over-de-universiteit |access-date=25 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116205642/http://www.uvh.nl/organisatie/over-de-universiteit |archive-date=16 January 2013}}</ref>

Utrecht is home of one of the locations of [[TIAS School for Business and Society]], focused on post-experience management education and the largest management school of its kind in the Netherlands. In 2008, its executive [[MBA]] program was rated the 24th best program in the world by the ''[[Financial Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Financial Times |title=FT.com |url=http://rankings.ft.com/emba-rankings |access-date=6 January 2008 |archive-date=29 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229061100/http://rankings.ft.com/emba-rankings |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Utrecht is also home to two other large institutions of higher education: the vocational university [[University of Professional Education Utrecht|Hogeschool Utrecht]] (37,000 students),<ref>{{cite web |author=Hogeschool Utrecht |title=Kengetallen HU Jaarverslag |url=http://www.hu.nl/Jaarverslag/Kengetallen.aspx |access-date=7 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718052752/http://hu.nl/Jaarverslag/Kengetallen.aspx |archive-date=18 July 2012}}</ref> with locations in the city and the Uithof campus; and the [[Utrecht School of the Arts|HKU Utrecht School of the Arts]] (3,000 students).

There are many schools for [[Primary education#Netherlands|primary]] and secondary education, allowing parents to select from different philosophies and religions in the school as is inherent in the [[Education in the Netherlands|Dutch school system]].