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Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz | |
Established | January 1, 2006 |
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President | Crispino Bergamaschi[1] |
Academic staff | 524 (2018) |
Total staff | 2947 (2018) |
Students | 12'419 (2018) |
Website | www.fhnw.ch |
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (‹See Tfd›German: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW) is a university of applied sciences in Switzerland. It is one of the largest universities in the country in terms of student enrollment. It is an inter-cantonal public law institution with its own legal personality. The cantons are Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, and Solothurn.[2]
As part of the state treaty, the supporting cantons manage the FHNW with a fourfold performance mandate. This includes training and further education, application-oriented research and development as well as services for the benefit of third parties.