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Paris School of Economics
Established in 2006 as a Foundation for Scientific Cooperation (Fondation de Coopération Scientifique) by the CNRS, the EHESS, the École des Ponts ParisTech, the École normale supérieure (ENS-PSL),the INRAE and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Paris School of Economics comprises a community of nearly 150 researchers and 155 doctoral candidates.
The PSE conducts research and teaches economics courses at the highest international level. It actively encourages exchanges between economic analysts and the other social scientists, contributes to economic policy debates and makes its scholarly research accessible via its Partnership Programme and its actions “Economics for everyone”.
Read moreSciences Po
Sciences Po stands out for combining approaches and confronting different worldviews. This tradition of diversity and multidisciplinary approach makes Sciences Po an active participant in public debate, a forum where thought meets action.
At Sciences Po, the finest researchers in the social sciences engage in continual dialogue with the greatest practitioners. With an academic community of more than 4,000 academics including 2,400 practitioners, the knowledge we transmit to students is nurtured by innovative research and rooted in reality.
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Sorbonne University
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Télécom Paris
Télécom Paris is at the heart of a rich ecosystem. An IMT school, a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. The School has been awarded labels for the quality of its training and research and works closely with partner schools.
Read moreUniversité Évry Val d’Essonne
Université d’Évry is one of 4 new universities created during the 1990’s in Île-de-France.
It strives to rise to challenges through research, and to share new knowledge in order to prepare the youth for upcoming challenges.
Université d’Évry offers education in most fields, except for health studies, from bachelor to doctorate degrees. It also proposes professional education related to the socio-economic environment: the university ends up with the highest number of higher education apprentices in France.
Université d’Évry is a part of Université Paris-Saclay, as an associated member. This group of universities also comprises UVSQ (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), 4 Grandes Écoles, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, and 6 national research organisations. It aims to construct a world-class intensive research university, with 15% of French research, and to give access to higher education to the masses. Most diplomas delivered by Université d’Évry are now labelled “Université Paris-Saclay”.
Read moreUniversité Gustave Eiffel
Université Gustave Eiffel is a multidisciplinary university of national importance. It also has the distinction of being the first institution to bring together a research institute, a university, a school of architecture and three engineering schools. By pooling its many strengths in the areas of education and research, Université Gustave Eiffel aims to develop by pursuing a strategy based on complementarity between its founding institutions. By creating better synergies in this way, the university can offer the groups it serves a wider range of expertise. Educating young people, employees or citizens at all levels, providing the whole of society with scientific insights ̶ the ultimate aim of Université Gustave Eiffel is to help raise everyone’s level of qualification.
Université Gustave Eiffel is active in many areas of research. In particular, it accounts for a quarter of French research on the cities of tomorrow and brings together multidisciplinary capabilities to conduct quality research for the benefit of society, offer education tailored to the social and economic world and support public policies.The institution’s main remits are:
- Initial and in-service education, with a strong focus on apprenticeship education.
- Research (fundamental and applied) and innovation.
- Expert appraisals, public policy support and standardisation.
- Openness to society and international cooperation.
Panthéon-Assas University
Paris-Panthéon-Assas university offers courses in law, political and social sciences (media and communication), management and economics.
The university has a number of research teams in law, political science, economics, management and information and communication sciences. The Centre d’études et de recherches de science administrative and the Institut d’histoire du droit are two research centers affiliated to the CNRS.
Read moreUniversité Paris Cité
At the heart of a global network of knowledge and innovation, Université Paris Cité is France’s leading multidisciplinary university. It covers a wide range of disciplines, with one of the most comprehensive and ambitious educational offerings available in the world. Université Paris Cité is part of the incarnation of a world city, aware of its place and missions, open to youth and knowledge.
Born in 2019 from the merger of the universities of Paris Diderot, Paris Descartes and Institut de physique du globe de Paris, the ambition of Université Paris Cité is to lead and develop an exceptional potential to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s society.
With a recognized international standing, as well as a strategic portfolio of privileged academic partners throughout the world, it offers its students state-of-the-art, innovative courses in the following fields:
- Arts, Humanities and Languages,
- Human, Economic and Social Sciences,
- Science and Technology,
- Medicine , Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing
Université Paris Cité is fully engaged in an experience that brings together thought leadership, pedagogical innovation in education, and excellence in research at the graduate level.
Located on some twenty campuses and research sites, Université Paris Cité has an exceptional heritage mainly located in Paris and its inner suburbs. Between history, prestige and modernity, Université Paris Cité is fully integrated into its urban environment.
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Read moreUniversité Paris-Est Créteil
UPEC is one of the major multidisciplinary and vocational universities within the Paris area.
With 19 sites and its main campus only 20 minutes from the heart of the French capital by subway, its serves a population of over 38,000 students.
A public university, UPEC enjoys governmental and European support. Its diverse partnerships with business organizations enhance its local presence while favoring career opportunities for its students.
In direct contact with its socioeconomic environment, UPEC successfully combines academic and scientific excellence in a spirit of openness.
A major player in the dissemination of academic, scientific and technological culture, UPEC offers over 350 training programs in all disciplines, from technical degrees to doctorates (PhD), including a series of degree programs entirely taught in English. The university is home to 7 faculties, 8 schools and institutes, 33 research centers and an Observatory of Sciences of the Universe.
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Université Paris-Lumières
The group of universities Paris Lumières covers the whole field of humanities and social sciences, and also trains in other domains of basic sciences and life sciences (biology, informatics, mathematics…). Paris Lumières ranks 1st for social sciences and 2nd in humanities in France, according to STRATER 2014 diagnosis (following the change in scope of groupings); the group trains 1 student of the Île-de-France in 4 in humanities and social sciences.
The group Paris Lumières works with many partners, and is built as a confederation thanks to a coordination relying on consensus. To that end, 16 associates signed partnership agreements with Paris Lumières. UPL also created an associates assembly, so as to give regular news updates and broaden inter-universitary debates.
Read moreUniversity Paris Nanterre
From its very creation in the 1960s, University Paris Nanterre has dedicated itself to being a new type of institution of higher education. An institution of learning and research whose defining characteristics are its vibrant campus life, educational innovation and scientific research with a social dimension. University Paris Nanterre is located to the west of the greater Paris area, just next to the largest business district in Europe and in a dynamic area full of major urban developments. The Nanterre campus reflects the University’s forward-looking policy with respect to sports and cultural activities, environmental commitment and solidarity actions. In addition to its main campus in Nanterre, the University also has satellite sites in nearby Saint-Cloud and La Défense.
Today University Paris Nanterre has 34,000 students in undergraduate, postgraduate and professional continuing education with more than 20% of the student body from a foreign country. There are over 1,000 research professors and researchers in all disciplines of social and human sciences (law, economics, management, arts, humanities and languages, philosophy, linguistics, information and communication sciences, psychology and education, history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, geography) as well as in sports sciences and physical education, mathematics, computer science and engineering.
University Paris Nanterre is a member of an Association of Higher Education and Research Institutions known as Université Paris Lumières. The University of Paris 8 and the CNRS research institute also belong to this prestigious grouping of institutions of higher learning. The INS-HEA (special educational needs and disability studies) and ENS Louis Lumière (National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School) as well as numerous cultural institutions of both French and international renown (Louvre Museum, National Library of France, Quai Branly Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Archives, INA – National Audiovisual Institute, History and Immigration Museum, etc. ) are also part of this exceptional educational initiative. This association is one of the leading educational and research bodies in France in the field of social and human sciences.
Read moreUniversité Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
At the heart of Paris Latin Quarter, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne combines the glorious past of a college founded during the 13th century by Robert de Sorbon, with a pioneering multidisciplinary programme. Ever since 1970, its mission of education and research has been gravitating around three scientific domains: humanities and arts, law and political science, and economic and management sciences.
Established on 25 locations across Paris and Île-de-France, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne guides over 43.000 students every year. The university is part of an international relations network all around the globe; it plays a major role in the education of researchers, professors, magistrates, lawyers, executives for the private sector or the public administration. Its moto: Omnibus sapientia, unicuique excellentia – Knowledge for all, excellence for every one.
With a 800 years history and 50 years of excellence, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne is now the greatest university specialised in humanities and social sciences in France.
Read moreUniversité Paris-Saclay
Université Paris-Saclay offers a comprehensive and varied range of Undergraduate, Master’s and PhD degrees, renowned internationally thanks to the University’s reputation for research excellence and the commitment of its academic staff. The University’s constituent faculties, institutes and component institutions all contribute to the curricula with cutting-edge specialised courses in Science and Engineering, Life Sciences and Health, and Social Sciences and Humanities.
The University shares 275 laboratories with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA). Université Paris-Saclay currently represents 13% of France’s research potential.
Located in the south of Paris on vast sites that stretch across Paris, Orsay, Évry and Versailles, Université Paris-Saclay benefits from a strategic geographical and socio-economic position that is strengthened by its international visibility.
Université Paris-Saclay is nested in a protected natural area close to Paris, at the very heart of a dynamic economic hub.
With 48,000 students, 9,000 researchers and lecturers, and 11,000 technical and administrative staff members, Université Paris-Saclay is a driving force for the development of its local area and one of France’s leading institutions.
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Université Paris Sciences & Lettres
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) combines excellence and diversity to inspire dialog among and between all areas of knowledge, innovation, and creativity in the Arts, Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Social Science.
PSL’s academic community makes the best of its 140 laboratories to design ambitious, formative, innovative and cross-disciplinary research programs.
PSL is selective and committed to equal opportunity, PSL Université chooses students globally for their talents to offer them research-based education and guarantees a low student to teacher ratio as well as a rich campus life and exciting career paths.
With 2,900 researchers and 17,000 students, PSL’s strengths are comparable to those of the world’s top universities. As a university of manageable size, PSL readily produces actionable results (some 200 research projects and 100 new education programs have been launched since 2011), provides the ideal environment for interdisciplinarity, and prioritizes high student-faculty ratios.
Read moreUniversité Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis
Ever since its creation as an Experiment Centre in Vincennes in 1969, and its establishment in Saint-Denis later in 1980, Université Paris 8 has been a major education and research center for humanities in Île-de-France. With its specialities in Arts, Litterature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Université Paris 8 has always led its students towards a better understanding of today’s world, all the while giving them tools to integrate socially.
To this end, Université Paris 8 offers research perspectives in scientific fields little represented in French higher education and research: psychoanalysis, geopolitics, cinema, plastic arts, gender studies…
Paris 8 also stands out through the strong ties it maintains between research and education, thanks to educational methods adapting to each population and offering education to each and every one, at any age.
Read moreUniversité Sorbonne Nouvelle
Founded in 1970, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle stems from the former Litterature faculty of University of Paris.
At the heart of Latin Quarter, and through Paris 5th arrondissement, Sorbonne Nouvelle offers several multidisciplinary high level education in Languages, Litterature, Arts and Media, Humanities and Social Sciences.
These trainings offer a variety of job prospects: teaching, research, publishing, resource management, performing arts (comedy, cinema, audiovisual), communication, journalism, coordination of cultural projects, translation and interpretation, in Europe or worldwide. Education at Sorbonne Nouvelle also relies on reputed research in modern humanities.
Read moreParis University 13
Paris University 13 is one of the thirteen universities that were created after the reorganization of the old Sorbonne after 1968.
It now has 24,000 students, spread across five campuses pursuing degrees or continuing education.
Truly multi-disciplinary in nature, Paris University 13 is a major center of teaching and research in the north of Paris.
The fundamental mission of Paris University 13 is to improve the scientific, cultural and professional knowledge of all through initial and continuing education and the development of research, which is its essential foundation.
In accordance with this mission, Paris University 13 pursues the following objectives :
- To welcome, inform and guide the choices of its students and provide them with initial and/or continuing education, particularly so that they obtain degrees.
- To develop research in science and technology as well as spread and extract value from findings
- To support students in their choice of courses and their entry into working life
- To support all desirable form of relations within the regional environment
- To enrich the culture and the scientific and technical knowledge of the academic community and the regional population
- To promote cooperation with other universities both nationally and internationally, particularly by participating in the European Higher Education Area
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Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is a leading multidisciplinary higher education and research institution. The quality of UVSQ’s undergraduate and graduate programs (master’s programs, doctorates, post-doctoral fellowships) is backed by the compelling research programs conducted in UVSQ research centers and laboratories.
UVSQ is a medium size university (20 000 students) located in the Southwestern suburb of Paris, where internationally known businesses are established (such as Renault, PSA, Dassault…) as well as renowned French research institutes (CNRS, INRA, CEA…).
Spread over 5 campuses with 19,000 students, UVSQ offers more than 200 disciplinary programs which allow it to welcome international students interested in studying in France for a semester, an academic year, or the full duration of a degree program. UVSQ faculties offer academic and professionally-focused undergraduate and graduate programs in many fields of study such as:
- Law,
- Political science,
- History,
- Geography,
- Economics,
- Management,
- Media and cultural studies,
- French Language,
- Medicine and Health,
- Biology,
- Chemistry,
- Physics,
- Mathematics, etc.
About 12% of UVSQ students are in apprenticeship training degrees which creates a solid bond with the economic environment and maintains the strength of the industrial sector partnership of the University. UVSQ also develops strong international cooperations with 120 universities throughout the world.
Ranked 12th in the French university of the 2019 World University ranking THE and 2nd in the 2018 Shanghai ranking in Atmospheric Sciences, the UVSQ places pedagogical innovation, professionalization and internationalization of its programs at the heart of its strategy.
The excellence of UVSQ as a research university is assured by its 39 laboratories and research institutions and is locally, nationally and internationally recognized as a source of expertise and resources. Heritage, materials, climate, environment, space science, public health, epidemiology, and disability are all fields in which UVSQ has become a major player, both within research networks and beyond.
These laboratories foster innovative, cross-disciplinary research that anticipates societal concerns, informs citizens and advice decision-makers.
UVSQ’s research laboratories are grouped into doctoral schools for the teaching and research supervision of PhD students.
UVSQ has strong links with the Department of Justice and university hospital centers (CHU), prestigious French research organizations such as CNRS, CEA, INSERM, INRA, INRIA, ONERA and with other French universities through its Joint Research Units (UMR in French).
UVSQ bases its research policy on 8 major lines of research:
- Climate, environment and sustainable development
- Culture and heritage
- Inflammation, infection, cancer and environment
- Public health: epidemiology, aging and cohort studies
- Disability
- Institutions, organizations and public policy
- Innovative materials: from concepts to applications
- Modeling and simulation of complex systems
The university participates in twenty state-funded “Investment for the Future” programs of the French government. With a dozen technology platforms, five industrial research chairs and participation in six competitiveness clusters, UVSQ actively cultivates projects with high potential for knowledge and technology transfer with industry partners in strategic sectors of the French economy.
USVQ campuses are located in exceptional natural, historical and cultural settings close to Paris.
The science campus is located in the city of Versailles, near the Palace of Versailles and many historical sites. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines that houses the humanities, law and health campuses, stands out for its parks and vibrant cultural life. Each campus has its own library, dining center and plenty of student accommodations nearby.
Choosing to study at UVSQ means choosing a university on a human scale. Joining UVSQ, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a campus life full of energy.
UVSQ also values all talents by offering programs outside the student curriculum (free EU). In addition to the main academic disciplines, students have the opportunity to participate in an artistic, sporting, social or associative EU valued by ECTS in order to develop new skills or simply to perfect their general knowledge.
UVSQ is a founding member of the world-class academic research cluster Université Paris-Saclay, which is a consortium of outstanding higher education and research institutions, constituting the largest research hub in France.
The institutions of the consortium Université Paris-Saclay share more and more of their educational and research activities: since 2015/2016, the entire doctoral training offer and most courses in master studies are pooled with other partners of the consortium, which increases the conditions for internationalization of these Programs.