The University of Groningen, abbreviated UG or RUG in Dutch, is a public research university with more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, it is the second oldest university in the country after Leiden. It began as a college established on the initiative of the Regional Assembly of the city of Groningen and the surrounding Ommelanden, with four faculties: theology, law, medicine and philosophy. Its first rector magnificus, Ubbo Emmius, came from East Frisia. Today it has eleven faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes and more than 175 degree programmes, and its alumni and faculty include Johann Bernoulli, Aletta Jacobs and four Nobel Prize winners.
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