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Linz : Austria

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Colleges and universities
At the northern outskirts of Linz, the local public university can be found (The Johannes Kepler University), which hosts law, business, social sciences, engineering, and science faculties and currently has c. 11,000 students. A spinoff of the university as well as a Fachhochschule (polytechnic) can be found 20 miles north of linz in the small town of Hagenberg. There are also three other universities in Linz:

University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, public, for arts and industrial design (c. 800 students)
Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance, private, for music (c. 800 students)
Catholic-Theological Private University Linz, private, for Catholic theology (c. 400 students), a Papal faculty since 1978

Miscellaneous
Linz is twinned with:
Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, since 1995
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, since 1987
Chengdu, China, since 1983
Gabs, Tunisia, since 1977
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, since 1975
Kansas City, Kansas, United States, since 1988
Kwangyang, South Korea, since 1991
Linkping, Sweden, since 1995
Linz am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, since 1987
Modena, Italy, since 1992
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, since 1993
Norrkping, Sweden, since 1995
San Carlos, Nicaragua, since 1988
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, since 1983
Tampere, Finland, since 1995

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