Editing Dortmund (section)

==Education==
Dortmund has 160 schools and 17 business, technical colleges teach more than 85,000 pupils. The city has a 4-year primary education program. After completing primary school, students continue to the Hauptschule, Realschule, Gesamtschule or Gymnasium (college preparatory school). The Stadtgymnasium Dortmund which was founded in 1543 as Archigymnasium is one of the [[List of oldest schools|oldest schools]] in Europe.<ref>Rostra, ''Sonderausgabe vom 27. Oktober 1979''</ref> The Leibniz Gymnasium, a bilingual public school located in the Kreuzviertel district, is particularly popular with children of the English-speaking expatriate community. The school is an International Baccalaureate school.<ref>{{cite web|title=International Baccalaureate school.|url=http://www.ibo.org/en/school/004496/|website= IB Index|access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref> The [[Goethe-Gymnasium, Dortmund|Goethe-Gymnasium]] was founded in 1867 as the first school offering higher education to girls in the city. It has been a NRW Sportschule, focused on sports, from 2009.

===Higher education===
[[TU Dortmund]] (Technical University of Dortmund) was founded in 1968 and is located in the southern part of the city.
It has about 30,000 students and offers a wide range of subjects in of [[physics]], [[electrical engineering]], [[chemistry]], [[spatial planning]], and [[economics]]. The university has a dedicated railway station at the campus's main gate, the journey from the city centre lasting merely seven minutes. The university is highly ranked in terms of its research performance in the areas of [[physics]], [[electrical engineering]], [[chemistry]], and [[economics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tu-dortmund.de/universitaet/aktuelles/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423060658/http://www.tu-dortmund.de/uni/Uni/aktuelles/meldungen/2011-09/11-09-07_VWL_Ranking/index.html|url-status=dead|title=Aktuelle Meldungen|archive-date=23 April 2012|website=TU Dortmund}}</ref> The university's most noticeable landmark is the [[H-Bahn]], a [[monorail]] train which connects the north and south campuses.

[[Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts]] is a [[Fachhochschule]] with 12,300 students, and 669 staff, 232 of which are professors. The Fachhochschule was created by a merger of several institutions of higher learning in 1971. Owing to its history as separate institutions, it consists of three campuses in different parts of Dortmund. The departments of mechanical and electrical engineering are located at Sonnenstraße near the city center. The department of design has its own campus at Max-Ophüls-Platz while the departments of social work, economics, computer science and architecture are housed in several buildings next to the [[Technical University of Dortmund]] campus in the suburb of Eichlinghofen. Additional offices in the city centre are used for administrative purposes.

The city is the site of several other universities, colleges and academies, which attract about 45,000 students.<ref name="dev.statistik.dortmund.de"/> Among them there are:

* ''FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, Standort Dortmund'': academy for management, founded in 1993.
* ''Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen'': academy for public administration.
* ''International School of Management'': private academy focussing on management and economics, founded in 1990.
* ''IT-Center Dortmund'': private college founded in 2000.
* ''International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef – Bonn'': is a private, state-recognised university of business and management.

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TU-Dortmund-Mathetower-Mensa-Emil-Figge-50-2013.jpg|[[Technical University of Dortmund|TU Dortmund]]
Fachhochschule Dortmund historische Ansicht.jpg|[[Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts]]
FH-Design-Dortmu 2190.JPG|Department of at Design Max-Ophüls-Platz
Fachbereich Architektur Fachhochschule Dortmund.jpg|Department of Architecture
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===Research===
The city has a high density of internationally renowned research institutions, such as the [[Fraunhofer Society]], the [[Leibniz Association]], and the [[Max Planck Society]], which are independent of, or only loosely connected to its universities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ten institutions that dominated science in 2015|url=http://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/ten-institutions-that-dominated-science-in-twentyfifteen|website=Nature Index|date=20 April 2016 |access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref>{{Citation needed|reason=Only Max Planck society is referred to, with no connection to the text. |date=February 2020}}