Amsterdam Municipal University

(Local Name: Universiteit van Amsterdam) The Amsterdam Municipal University, endowed in 1877 and therefore comparatively young, was the first university in the Netherlands after the war to set up a faculty of social and political sciences. It has the reputation of being progressive, and distinguished itself at the time of the student unrest and the "Provo" period in the mid-1960s by its political activities. One of the main university buildings is the former old people's home on the Oudemanhuispoor. The "Vrije Universiteit", opened in 1880, is a Christian-oriented university in which teaching is based on the Reformed faith.