University of Ioannina

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The University of Ioannina (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Panepistimio Ioanninon) is a university lying in the plains 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The campus is linked to the town by Greek National Road 5. It now hosts over 20,000 students in 17 faculties (2006). The university was founded in 1964, as a department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and became a university at 1970. There is a prominent medical school that performs research and provides doctors to the local University Hospital.

See also

• List of universities in Greece

External links

• University of Ioannina (new website, in Greek only)
• University of Ioannina (new website)
• University of Ioannina (old website)

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