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The Free University of Berlin [a] (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin.It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period as a Western continuation of the Friedrich Wilhelm University, or the University of Berlin, [3] [4] whose traditions and faculty members it retained.
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, founder of the Free University of Brussels. The history of the Université libre de Bruxelles is closely linked with that of Belgium itself. When the Belgian State was formed in 1830 by nine breakaway provinces from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, three state universities existed in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liège, but none in the new capital, Brussels.
Free education is education funded through government spending or charitable organizations rather than tuition funding. Many models of free higher education have been proposed. [1] Primary school and other comprehensive or compulsory education is free in many countries (often not including primary textbook).
Website. vu.nl. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam[a] (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam or simply VU when in context) [6] is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dutch: [ˈvrɛiə ʔynivɛrsiˈtɛid ˈbrʏsəl] ⓘ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch and English-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. [b] It has four campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engineering Campus (in Elsene), Brussels Health Campus (in Jette), Brussels ...
Since then, more universities have been established, and Denmark now has eight universities. Higher education in Denmark is free for students from the European Union and Switzerland. [14] Many programmes are taught in English, including Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, exchange, and summer school programmes. [15]
Education in Belgium is regulated and for the most part financed by one of the three communities: Flemish, French and German-speaking. Each community has its own school system, with small differences among them. The federal government plays a very small role: it decides directly the age for mandatory schooling and indirectly the financing of ...
According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities [3] and the THES - QS World University Rankings, [4] four Flemish universities (University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University and KU Leuven) are among the top 150 universities in Europe and top 300 universities worldwide.