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Line 33: The '''Delft University of Technology''' ('''TU Delft'''; {{lang-nl\|Technische Universiteit Delft}}) is the oldest and largest Dutch [[public university\|public]] [[Institute of technology\|technical university]], located in [[Delft]], Netherlands. With eight [[Faculty (division)\|faculties]] and multiple [[research institutes]],<ref name="TU Delft Research Institutes">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/research/thematic-cooperation/42457/research-institutes-tu-delft-institutes/\|title=Research institutes\|publisher=TU Delft\|access-date=2019-01-02\|archive-date=2020-10-14\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014094303/https://www.tudelft.nl/en/research/thematic-cooperation/42457/research-institutes-tu-delft-institutes/\|url-status=dead}}</ref> TU Delft ~~has~~educates more than 26,000 students ([[undergraduate]] and [[postgraduate]]), and employs more than 3,000 [[doctoral]] candidates, and 4,000 employees (teaching, research, support and management staff; including more than 1,300 faculty members).<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Facts and Figures\|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures\|access-date=2021-05-18\|website=TU Delft\|language=en-US}}</ref> The university was established on 8 January 1842 by King [[William II of the Netherlands\|William II]] as a royal academy, with the primary purpose of training [[civil servants]] for work in the [[Dutch East Indies]]. The school expanded its research and education curriculum over time, becoming a polytechnic school in 1864 and an institute of technology (making it a full-fledged university) in 1905. It changed its name to Delft University of Technology in 1986.<ref name="History"/>

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