University of Paderborn
Public university · North Rhine-Westphalia
About
Paderborn University (German: Universität Paderborn) is a public research university in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter semester 2016/2017 in 62 different degree programmes. The university has several winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and ERC grant recipients of the European Research Council. In 2002, the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu proved the Catalan conjecture, a number-theoretical conjecture, formulated by the French and Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, which had stood unresolved for 158 years.
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Key facts
- Type
- Public university, Campus university
- Founded
- 1972
- Students
- 19,110
- Also known as
- Paderborn University