University of Nijmegen

The University of Nijmegen is the university of the Dutch town of Nijmegen. Official (Dutch) name: Katholieke Universiteit van Nijmegen (KUN), which literally means Catholic University of Nijmegen.

It was founded in the 1920s as a result of the emancipation process of the catholics in the south of the Netherlands. Its catholic identity is still reflected by the obligatory philosophy course.

Some of the subjects that can be studied:

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Informatics
• Philosophy
• Theology
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Cognitive Science
• many languages
• Medicine
• Computer science

Discoveries and inventions

The computer science department at KUN created the Clean programming language.

External Link

• Official Site
• English version