Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a
public
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research university
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located in
Nijmegen,
Netherlands
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. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students.
Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistently been included in the top 150 of universities in the world by four major university ranking tables. As of 2020, it ranks 105th in the Shanghai
Academic Ranking of World Universities. Internationally, RU is known for its strong research output. In 2020, 391 PhD degrees were awarded, and 8,396 scientific articles were published. To bolster the international exchange of academic knowledge, Radboud University joined the
Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities in 2016.
Among its alumni Radboud University counts 14
Spinoza Prize laureates, 2
Stevin Prize laureates, 1
Nobel Prize
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laureate, Sir
Konstantin Novoselov, and 5
prime ministers of the Netherlands, including the current prime minister
Dick Schoof. Other notable alumni include former chairman of Unilever
Marijn Emmanuel Dekkers, influential priest and theologian
Henri Nouwen, biologist
Frans de Waal and First Vice-President of the European Commission
Frans Timmermans. Former students have also won 3 Olympic medals since 2000, all in rowing.
Coat of arms

Radboud University's coat of arms was designed at the time of the founding of the university by the goldsmith workshop of the Brom family in Utrecht. The lower part represents the coat of arms of the
Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The dove in the upper part of the coat of arms is the symbol of the
Holy Spirit
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. The entire shield is surmounted by the
Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire because Nijmegen was once home to Frankish King
Charlemagne
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. Underneath the coat of arms one finds the university's motto "In Dei Nomine Feliciter", meaning "happily in the name of God". The coat of arms is used on most of the university's official documents, including the university's bachelor, master and PhD certificates. For 2023 a special version of the coat of arms was designed to celebrate Radboud University's 100 year anniversary.
History
The establishment of a university in the city of Nijmegen goes far back. The first
University of Nijmegen was founded in 1655 as the ''Kwartierlijke Academie van Nijmegen''. Students developed their skills in the traditional fields of theology, medicine and law. Although the university had its successes, the ''Kwartierlijke Academie'' terminated around 1680. The university was unable to recover from successive outbreaks of the
plague and the
French invasion of the Netherlands in 1672.
After several attempts to establish a new university in Nijmegen, the current Radboud University Nijmegen was established in 1923 under the name (Catholic University of Nijmegen). It was founded by the Saint Radboud Foundation, a network of
bishop
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s that wished to
emancipate Catholic intellectuals in the Netherlands. At the time, Dutch Roman Catholics were disadvantaged and occupied almost no higher posts in governmental and scientific institutions. The establishment of a university was seen as a possible stepping stone for these individuals.

When the Catholic University of Nijmegen was founded, every student automatically became part of student corporation N.S.V. Carolus Magnus
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Charlemagne
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, who used to reside in Nijmegen in the Middle Ages. This organization was set up to speak for student needs and to organize an annual
induction ceremony. It also aimed at attaining the same status as other corporations in the well-known Dutch student cities of
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University in times of war
The first years after the establishment of 1923 were quite successful for the Catholic University of Nijmegen, but during the
Second World War
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the young university encountered serious difficulties. Many prominent members were lost, among them the anti-Nazi professors
Robert Regout and
Titus Brandsma who were deported to
Dachau concentration camp and died there. As the war progressed, the university was more severely curtailed in its freedoms. The German Sicherheitsdienst (security service) removed so-called "anti-German works" from the university library. In addition, professors could only be appointed after approval by the Nazi Department of Education, Science and Cultural Protection. Such measures aimed at eventually eliminating religious institutions of higher education. There would be no place for a Catholic university in a nazified Netherlands.
In March and April 1943, the conflict with the Nazi occupying forces reached a boiling point. The occupiers demanded that all students in the Netherlands sign a declaration of loyalty. If they did not, they were not allowed to continue their studies and had to work in Germany as forced laborers. However, students in Nijmegen showed to be resistant to the German demands. At the risk of his own life, law student Jozef van Hövelleven launched a widespread campaign to get as many students as possible not to sign.
The university's
rector magnificus at that time, Bernard Hermesdorf, decided to show solidarity with students like Jozef van Hövell. As the only Dutch rector in the Netherlands he refused, for "reasons of principle", to distribute pre-printed loyalty statements to his students. Although heroic, Hermesdorf's refusal led to extreme anger among the occupying Nazi forces. On 5 May 1943, the Germans demanded all Nijmegen's non-signatories of the loyalty statement to report to
Ommen within 24 hours to be put to work in Germany. If they did not, their families would be held responsible. These circumstances left rector magnificus Bernard Hermesdorf with no choice but to close the doors of the university as of 11 April 1943, pending better times. Eventually, only 83 students decided to report to the Germans in Ommen. Most of the students went into hiding, scattered across the Netherlands. The great spider in the web during that time was university moderator Bernard van Ogtrop, who traveled all over the country to visit students from Nijmegen in hiding. He wrote circulars, took care of a wide-ranging correspondence, and ran a parcel service and thus managed to keep many people's spirits up. The university was closed, but thanks to Van Ogtrop it continued to exist, if only in the minds of the students.
1945 – 2000
When the war ended in 1945, the university infrastructure had been largely destroyed, but students still returned to their
alma mater in dribs and drabs. Classes officially resumed again in March 1946, but because many university buildings had been bombed during the war, a dire need for new facilities existed. With the purchase of the Heyendaal estate, the university got its own campus in a green setting less than a fifteen-minute bike ride from the Nijmegen city center. In 1951, the Faculty of Medical Sciences was the first faculty to move to Heyendaal. Soon, other faculties followed. By 1988, all faculties had moved to Heyendaal. The move to a new campus also with a rise in students attending the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Since the end of the war, student numbers steadily rose from 3,000 in 1960 to 15,000 in 1980.
The period between 1960 and 1975 is often generally described as the "Age of Student Unrest". Not only did the student population in Nijmegen rise exponentially, it had also become more diverse, left-leaning and less elitist. Next to that, the
hippie movement had reached the city which caused many students to desire a more
democratic student life. Umbrella organization Carolus Magnus became increasingly bloated and lost connection with the members of ''sociëteiten'' and ''disputen'' that began to operate more independently. It was not the beloved corporation it used to be and students criticized the mandatory membership of Carolus Magnus. Therefore, the organization slowly became more concerned with administrative duties than organizing community activities. In 1966 Carolus Magnus ceased to exist in its traditional sense. From that moment on, students were free to choose which association they joined and which not. In the 1980s and 1990s many other kinds of student associations were established in Nijmegen, including
evangelical-Christian association Navigators,
egalitarian association Ovum Novum, and
alternative student association Karpe Noktum''.''
2000 – now
As an indication of its evolving relationship with the
Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands and to appear less sectarian, the university's executive council changed the university's name in 2004 to the Radboud University Nijmegen after
Saint
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Radboud of Utrecht, a medieval bishop. Tensions continued between the university's executive council and the bishops' conference over the secularizing direction of the university. The repeated nomination of non-Catholics and non-practicing Catholics to the executive council, which the bishops' conference would not approve, exacerbated tensions. In response to a decision to open a Transgender Care Center at the university's medical center, the bishops' conference revoked the designation ''Catholic'' from the university in November 2020. Accordingly, the university lost its eligibility to receive church subsidies and its right to identify as Roman Catholic. The university appealed to the Holy See, and in November 2022 the pope's
Dicastery for Culture and Education ruled that the bishops' conference could remove the designation "Catholic" from the executive council but not from the university as a whole.
Faculties
Radboud University is organized in seven faculties that offer programmes and courses in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, law, management, philosophy, theology and religious studies. Each faculty (''cf.'', College in the USA or School in Europe) is a formal grouping of academic degree programmes, schools and institutes, discipline areas, research centres, and/or any combination of these drawn together for educational purposes.
* Faculty of Arts
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Medical Sciences
* Nijmegen School of Management
* Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
* Faculty of Science
* Faculty of Social Sciences
Campus

Radboud University is noted for its green campus, often listed among the most attractive in the Netherlands. The campus is located in the southern Heyendaal estate of Nijmegen and houses 7 faculties that conduct teaching and research. In addition to these faculties, the campus also hosts the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, a world class research centre devoted to the understanding of human language and communication.
Featured prominently on the northwest side of the university's Heyendaal campus is the Heyendaal castle. It borders the
Radboud University Medical Center, a large teaching hospital located on the campus, which is linked to the university's medical department. Bordering the university hospital is the Huygens Building, which houses the Faculty of Natural Sciences. At the south end of the campus next to the Radboud Sports Centre (RSC), one finds the Erasmus Tower which houses the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Theology and Religion. The Erasmus Tower and the RSC border the Elinor Ostrom building, which is home to the School of Management and also encompasses the political sciences and economics faculty staff. On the other side of the Erasmus Tower, a number of general lecture halls is located along with the campus pub and bookshop. Beyond this area, in the southwest of the campus, one finds the modern Maria Montessori building, home to the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Grotius building, home to the Faculty of Law. In the most southern part of the campus, the monumental
Jesuit Berchmanianum monastery can be found which houses the university's general services staff and will serve as its auditorium.
In 2017, a SPAR minimarket was opened in the Erasmus building which provides students with snacks and accessories. The university campus borders the campus of the
HAN University of Applied Sciences, which in turn is located next to Heyendaal train station. Frequent shuttle buses connect the university to Nijmegen Central Station and the city centre.
Academics
Education

Radboud University enrols over 22,000 students in about one hundred study programs (about 50 bachelor's and 50 master's programs). As of April 2021, the university offers 34 international master's programs taught in English and several more taught in Dutch. There are nine bachelor's programs taught fully in English: American Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, International Economics & Business, International Business Administration, English Language and Culture, Philosophy, Politics and Society and Molecular Life Sciences. Communication and Information Studies, History, Psychology and Arts and Culture Studies offer English-language tracks. All other bachelors are in Dutch, although most of the required literature is in English. Some exams, papers and even classes may be in English as well, despite the programs being Dutch-taught. All master's programs have been internationally accredited by the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).
International master's programs
All English-taught master's programmes are research-based programmes. They are taught within the Faculties of Arts, Law, Social Sciences, Medical Sciences, Sciences and Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, besides the Interfaculty Research school and the Nijmegen School of Management.
Research
Radboud University is home to several research institutions, including the Business & Law Research Centre, Institute for Management Research,
NanoLab Nijmegen, the
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and HFML-FELIX. Faculty members
Anne Cutler (1999),
Henk Barendregt (2002),
Peter Hagoort (2005),
Theo Rasing (2008),
Heino Falcke (2011),
Mike Jetten (2012),
Ieke Moerdijk (2012),
Mikhail Katsnelson (2013), Wilhelm Huck (2016) and Klaas Landsman (2022) won the
Spinoza Prize. Visiting professor Sir
Andre Geim and former
PhD student Sir
Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the 2010
Nobel Prize in Physics.
University ranking
Radboud University has been named best broad university in the Netherlands for the past seven consecutive years.
The physics department is considered top tier. A recent accomplishment is its contribution to the first picture of a black hole. The Faculty of Law is nationally unrivaled in its research in business and law, and retains strong international ties with other prominent research institutions, such as
Bologna
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,
Nice
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. The Faculty of Law's European Law School and Notarial Law departments are considered best in class in the Netherlands,
just as the Political Sciences, Sociology and Theology programmes in their respective fields.
Radboud Excellence Initiative
The Radboud Excellence Initiative was created with the dual purposes of attracting talents from every academic field to Radboud University while strengthening international bonds between universities worldwide. The initiative is a joint enterprise of both Radboud University and
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center. It provides two routes by which a researcher may come to Radboud University. Promising researchers who have completed their doctorate between two and eight years earlier at the time of nomination may be nominated for a fellowship whereas those researchers who are more established in their discipline may be nominated for a professorship.
Student life
Student associations

Radboud University offers students the opportunity to join various ethnic, cultural and political organizations, along with numerous honor societies, special interest groups and socially focused student societies.
Study associations
Lately study associations have overtaken part of the role that student associations like Carolus Magnus used to play. These study associations are related to individual degree programs and are open to
international students as well. Study associations don't have
initiation rituals and regularly meet for fun-related, as well as study-related activities. Some examples of study associations are the study association for computing science and information sciences students (Thalia), the study association for history students (GSV Excalibur), the study association for English Language and Culture (T.E.A. The English Association), the study association for psychology students (SPIN), and the study association for Business Administration students (Synergy).
Campus publications
Radboud University's independent university media platform, ''Vox'', intended for students and staff, publishes daily material online and delivers hard copy magazines several times a year. Its paper magazine is distributed on campus for free
Vox at Radboud University also produce an independent student magazine that appears seven times a year: the ''
Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad'' ''(ANS)''.
Athletics
Radboud University offers many facilities for sports at the Radboud Sports Centre (RSC) a part of campus where students are welcomed 7 days a week to partake in a variety of at least 80 different sports. In addition to the facilities of the Radboud Sports Centre, Radboud University also boasts more than 35 student sports associations such as the Radboud Rangers (baseball), Obelix (rugby), Apelliotes (hockey), FC Kunde (soccer), Phocas (rowing) and De Loefbijter (sailing).
Notable alumni

The following is a partial list of notable alumni of Radboud University:
Politics
*
Dries van Agt (1955, LLM) – 46th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
*
Gracita Arrindell – first woman President of Sint Maarten.
*
Louis Beel (1928, LLM) – 36th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
*
Jo Cals (1940, LLM) – 41st
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
*
Ingrid van Engelshoven (1989, MSc) –
Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science
*
Thom de Graaf (1981, LLM) – former
mayor
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of
Nijmegen
*
Loek Hermans (1976, MSc) – former
Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science
*
Agnes Kant (1989, MSc & 1997, PhD) – former leader of the Dutch
Socialist Party
*
Jos van der Lans (1981, MA) – former member of the
Dutch House of Representatives
*
Gerd Leers, (1976, MSc) – former
mayor
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of
Maastricht
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,
Minister for Immigration and Asylum Affairs
*
Victor Marijnen (1941, LLM) – 39th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
*
Lilian Marijnissen (2006, MSc) – leader of the Dutch
Socialist Party
*
Hans van Mierlo (1960, LLM) – former
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
*
Dick Schoof (1957, MSc) – civil servant and current
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
*
Frans Timmermans (1985, MA) – Dutch politician and diplomat who currently serves as the
First Vice-President of the European Commission and the
European Commissioner for the portfolio of Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, Rule of Law and Charter of Fundamental Rights in the
Juncker Commission.
*
Rita Verdonk (1983, MA) – former
Dutch Minister for Immigration and Asylum Affairs, former member of the
Dutch House of Representatives
Academics
*
Anna Akhmanova (1999, PhD) – cell biologist and winner of the 2018
Spinoza Prize
*
Wim Crusio (1984, PhD) –
neurobehavioural geneticist
*
Jos Engelen (1973, MSc & 1979, PhD) – experimental
physicist
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*
Halleh Ghorashi (2001, PhD) – Iranian-born anthropologist, member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
*
Jaap van Ginneken (born 1943) - psychologist and communication scholar
*
Wim Klever (born 1930) - scholar
*
Gerard Luttikhuizen (born 1940) - scholar
*
Johan Mekkes (1898–1987) - philosopher
* Sir
Konstantin Novoselov (PhD) – discoverer of graphene, awarded 2010
Nobel Prize in Physics
*
Harald E.L. Prins (1976, Doctorandus) anthropologist, ethnohistorian, documentary filmmaker and expert witness on indigenous rights in United States and Canadian courts, distinguished Professor of Anthropology at
Kansas State University
*
Frans de Waal (1970, MSc) – biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates.
Business
*
Marijn Emmanuel Dekkers, (1979, BSc) –
Chief Executive Officer
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of
Bayer (2010–2016) and
Unilever (2016–2019)
*
Aart Jan de Geus (1981, LMM) –
Chief Executive Officer
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of the
Bertelsmann Stiftung and chairman of the
Triodos Bank
*
Louis Reijtenbagh (1975, MSc) – founder and
Chief Executive Officer
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of The Plaza Group
*
Herna Verhagen, (1988, LLM) –
Chief Executive Officer
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of
PostNL, most influential Dutch woman 2014
Sports
*
Karapet Karapetyan (2011, LLM) – Armenian-Dutch
kickboxer, ranked #3 welterweight in the world in November 2015 by
GLORY
*
Björn Kuipers (2001, MSc) –
football referee, leader of multiple
UEFA Europa League
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finals and the
2014 UEFA Champions League Final
*
Koen Metsemakers (2019, MSc) –
rower, winner of a golden medal in the
men's quad scull in the
2020 Summer Olympics
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in
Tokyo
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,
Japan
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*
Nelleke Penninx (1998, MSc) –
rower, winner of a silver medal in the
women's eight with coxswain in the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in
Sydney
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,
Australia
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*
Annemarieke van Rumpt (2004, MSc) –
rower, winner of a bronze medal in the
women's four coxless in the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Milan
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,
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Literature
*
Godfried Bomans (1943, not completed) – popular Dutch
author
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, famous for his children fantasy novel "Eric in the Land of the Insects"
*
A. F. Th. van der Heijden (1976, BA) – popular Dutch
author
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, most known for his multi-novel saga ''De tandeloze tijd'' ("The Toothless Time")
*
Henri Nouwen (1964, MSc) –
Catholic priest and writer, most known for his book "The Return of the Prodigal Son"
*
Mark Retera (1989, MSc) – popular Dutch
cartoonist
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, best known for his absurd gag comic ''
DirkJan''
Notable faculty

The following is a partial list of notable faculty of Radboud University:
*
Esther Aarts, neuroscientist
*
Hans van Abeelen, first Dutch
behaviour geneticist
*
Titus Brandsma, co-founder, murdered in
Dachau concentration camp
*
Andreas Burnier, writer
*
Joan Daemen, cryptographer, developed
AES and
SHA-3
*
Ap Dijksterhuis, social psychologist and author of "Het slimme onbewuste"
*
Willem Duynstee, Rector (1940/1941), Philosophical Psychology (Mortification Therapy), Lawyer, and Moral Theologian
*
Heino Falcke, German professor of
radio astronomy and
astroparticle physics
*
Andre Geim, Russian-born Dutch–British physicist, joint winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
*
Carlos Gussenhoven, professor of linguistics, specializes in phonetics and phonology
*
Catharina Halkes, first feminist theologian to be a professor in the Netherlands
*
Hans de Kroon, biologist
*
Marc Lewis, psychologist, neuroscientist and author
*
Renate Loll, physicist, developed the theory of
Causal Dynamical Triangulations.
*
Jos van der Meer, professor of general internal medicine
*
Mihai Netea, physician, awarded the
Spinoza Prize of 2016
*
Kees Versteegh, professor emeritus of Middle Eastern studies, also alumnus
*
Roos Vonk, social psychologist and author of popular scientific works
*
Jan van der Watt, expert in Johannine literature, General editor of ''
Review of Biblical Literature''
*
Daniela Wilson, chemist known for her work on
nanomotors
See also
*
Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, a
University of Applied Sciences
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located in Nijmegen and
Arnhem
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Outline of organizational theory
References
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