National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greek: Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών, Ethnikón kai Kapodistriakón Panepistímion Athinón), normally alluded to just as the University of Athens (UoA), is a state funded college in Athens, Greece. It has been in ceaseless operation since its foundation in 1837 and is the most established advanced education organization in the present day Greek state. Today it is the second greatest college of Greece in number of understudies (taking after the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), with more than 50,000 college understudies. In 2012 it was positioned in the positions 501-550 among the best colleges on the planet, as per the record of QS World University Rankings, and additionally as indicated by the assessment of Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

The University of Athens was established on May 3, 1837 by King Otto of Greece (in Greek, Othon) and was named in his honor Othonian University (Οθώνιον Πανεπιστήμιον). It was the principal college in the freed Greek state and in the encompassing zone of the Southeast Europe too. It was additionally the second scholarly organization after the Ionian Academy. This fledging college comprised of four resources; Theology, Law, Medicine and Arts (which included connected sciences and arithmetic). Amid its first year of operation, the establishment was staffed by 33 teachers, while courses were gone to by 52 understudies and 75 non-registered "evaluators".

It was initially housed in the living arrangement of draftsmen Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert, on the north incline of the Acropolis, in Plaka, which now houses the Museum of the University. In November 1841 the college migrated on the Central Building of the University of Athens, a building composed by Danish designer Christian Hansen. He took after a neoclassical methodology, "consolidating the landmark's superbness with a human scale straightforwardness" and gave the building its H-shape.[1] The building was designed by painter Carl Rahl, framing the well known "compositional set of three of Athens", together with the working of the National Library of Greece (left of the college) and the working of the Athens Academy (right of the college). Development started in 1839 in an area toward the north of the Acropolis. Its front wing, otherwise called the "Propylaea", was finished in 1842–1843. Whatever remains of the wings' development, that was managed at first by Greek draftsman Lysandros Kaftantzoglou and later by his associate Anastasios Theofilas, was finished in 1864. The building is these days part of what is known as the "Athenian Neoclassical Trilogy".

The Othonian University was renamed to National University (Εθνικόν Πανεπιστήμιον) in 1862, after occasions that constrained King Otto to leave the nation. It was later renamed to "National and Kapodistrian University of Athens" to respect Ioannis Kapodistrias, the primary head of condition of the autonomous current Greek state.

A noteworthy change in the structure of the University occurred in 1904, when the personnel of Arts was isolated into two separate resources: that of Arts (Σχολή Τεχνών) and that of Sciences (Σχολή Επιστημών), the last comprising of the branches of Physics and Mathematics and the School of Pharmacy. In 1919, a division of science was included, and in 1922 the School of Pharmacy was renamed a Department. A further change came to fruition when the School of Dentistry was added to the workforce of solution.

Somewhere around 1895 and 1911, a normal of 1,000 new understudies registered every year, a number which expanded to 2,000 toward the end of World War I. This brought about the choice to present placement tests for every one of the resources, starting for the scholastic year 1927–28. Since 1954 the quantity of understudies conceded every year has been settled by the Ministry of Education and Religion, by proposition of the resources.

From 1911 until 1932 the college was isolated into the Kapodistrian University (the humanities divisions; named after Ioannis Kapodistrias) and the National University (the science offices). In 1932, the two separate lawful elements were converged into the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Amid the 1960s development work started on the University Campus in the suburb of Ilissia, which houses the Schools of Philosophy, Theology and Sciences.

In 2013, the University Senate settled on the choice to suspend all operations in the wake of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs cutting 1,655 regulatory employments from colleges around the nation. In an announcement, the University Senate said that "any instructive, research and authoritative operation of the University of Athens is unbiasedly unimaginable".