About University of Bonn

About University of Bonn

The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the Rhein-Universität on 18 October 1818 by Frederick William III, as the linear successor of the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn which was founded in 1777. The University of Bonn offers many undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects and has 544 professors. The University of Bonn is a member of the German U15 association of major research-intensive universities in Germany and has the title of 'University of Excellence' under the German Universities Excellence Initiative. Bonn has 6 Clusters of Excellence, the most of any German university, covering areas such as mathematics, quantum computing, and economics. The University and State Library Bonn (ULB Bonn) is the central university and archive library, holding more than five million volumes.