Berlin is the largest and the capital city of Germany. It is located in the East of the country and has an estimated population of about 3.5 million people living and working in the city. The Berlin educational system is compulsory for children and is administered by the German state. The education system in Berlin is divided into four levels: Kindergarten, Primary Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Education. There are over 800 schools in this city with over 340,000 children attending them. The Primary school is a 6 year programme for children. Berlin also has a special school with a bilingual school program implanted in the "Europaschule" where children are able to learn German as well as a foreign language; it start in Primary level and continues to High School.
Children who finish this can go onto College of either Gymnasium, which is a college preparatory school, or Sekundarschule, which is a comprehensive school, for an additional 6 years. The Französisches Gymnasium Berlin, was established in 1689 and teaches Huguenot children refugees in German or French. The John F. Kennedy School, based in Zehlendorf, is a bilingual German–American public school teaches children of diplomats as well as children from the English-speaking community. Berlin also offers four school that teach Latin and Classical Greek language, they are: Steglitzer Gymnasium in Steglitz and Goethe-Gymnasium which are both state school in Wilmersdorf, Protestant, an Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, and finally Jesuit, a Canisius-Kolleg based in the Tiergarten "Embassy Quarter".
Berlin also includes four universities and more than 25 professional, technical and private colleges, Hochschulen or Fachhochschulen, when students wish to further their education. There are approximately 130,000 students attend these universities and colleges. The Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin, FU Berlin) has about 34,000 attending students, the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) with about 30,000 attending students, and The Universität der Künste (UdK) has about 4,000 students; the Berlin School of Economics and Law also has about 9,000 students enrolled.
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