erasmus university rotterdam (abbreviated as eur, dutch: erasmus universiteit rotterdam [eːˌrɑsmʏs ynivɛrsiˌtɛit rɔtərˈdɑm]) is a public research university located in rotterdam, netherlands.the university is named after desiderius erasmus roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist and theologian.erasmus mc is the largest and one of the foremost academic medical centers and trauma centers in the netherlands, whereas its economics and business school, erasmus school of economics and rotterdam school of management are well known in europe and beyond.currently, erasmus university rotterdam has been placed in the top 100 universities in the world by four prominent international ranking tables.in 2017, the university was ranked by times higher education as 69th in the world with its business & economics as 17th, and clinical health as 42nd in the world, and was ranked among top ten business schools in europe by the financial times.in 2015, erasmus university rotterdam was ranked by times higher education as 20th in europe and 72nd in the world, with its social sciences as 40th, and clinical health as 35th in the world.the university has seven faculties and focuses on the following four areas:  health – faculty of medicine and health sciences/erasmus mc and erasmus school of health policy & management (eshpm) wealth – erasmus school of economics and rotterdam school of management governance – erasmus school of law and erasmus school of social and behavioural sciences (essb) culture –  erasmus school of history, culture and communication, erasmus school of social and behavioural sciences (essb) and erasmus school of philosophy (esphil)   == history ==  erasmus university rotterdam was founded on 8 november 1913 as the netherlands school of commerce (nederlandsche handels-hoogeschool, or nhh) through private initiative with broad support from the business community of rotterdam.in 1937, the school was recognized as a higher educational institute with university status, providing education in commerce and economics as an academic discipline.this resulted in a change of its name: the nhh became the neh, or netherlands school of economics (nederlandse economische hogeschool).the growing complexity of society led in the 1960s, to the arrival of the faculties of law and social sciences, followed in later decades by philosophy, history and arts, and business administration.from 1950, the foundation for higher clinical education used its best efforts to get a full academic medical study programme established in rotterdam, and with success: in 1966, the government established the medical faculty rotterdam (medische faculteit rotterdam), housed next to dijkzigt hospital.together with the sophia children's hospital and the daniel den hoed clinic, it forms the university hospital rotterdam, which as of 1 january 2003, bears the name erasmus mc.in 1973, the medical faculty rotterdam and the netherlands school of economics merged, after which the institution was renamed under its current name erasmus university rotterdam (erasmus universiteit rotterdam) – the first university in the netherlands named after a person, a man to whom rotterdam owes the reputation it has held for centuries in the academic world.erasmus mc is the new name for the university medical centre in rotterdam, which is a merger of the faculty of medicine and health sciences and the university hospital rotterdam (dijkzigt, sophia, daniel den hoed clinic).the biomedical cluster plays a leading role in the field of analysis of role of individual genes playing role in diseases.the forensic molecular biology department works together with the netherlands forensic institute (nfi).major long-term genetic epidemiological studies among the elderly and children are erasmus rotterdam health for the elderly (ergo) and generation r respectively.the erasmus school of health policy and management (eshpm) forms a bridge between medicine and the health sciences on the one hand and social sciences on the other.
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