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University of Limoges
Each year, the University of Limoges hosts more than 2000 international students, i.e. more than 15% of the student body at the University of Limoges. More than a hundred research lecturers and 200 international doctoral candidates have also chosen the University of Limoges. With a strong network of international partners, a dynamic former network and holder of an Erasmus charter, the University of Limoges is resolutely open to the world and welcomes you.
At the heart of Europe, the University of Limoges is an important multidisciplinary higher education cluster in an environment more conducive to scientific development. Open, it is a place brimming with interactions, with a diverse student population, efficient hosting structures, close-knit teams, training based on research of a very high level and for well-identified opportunities. Its scientific excellence, with its state of the art laboratories and major partnerships, contributes to inventing the world of the future.
Read moreUniversité du Littoral Côte d’Opale
ULCO was created in 1991, as part of new universities program, from older universities establishments.
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Université Lumière Lyon 2
Since its creation in 1973, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 has been committed to a strong and demanding vision of Higher Education and Research, driven by a spirit and values that are also its trademark: human and humanistic, committed and supportive, democratic and civic-minded.
A founding member of the aggregation of universities and higher education institutions known as the COMUE Université de Lyon, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 welcomes nearly 30,000 students on two campuses to its bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.
With a varied range of training courses, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 combines openness and success in order to empower its students to actively develop their critical thinking skills in a multidisciplinary context in order to be able to address the societal challenges of the future.
Its thirteen faculties and institutes offer a wide range of courses in four areas of education and research: Arts, Literature, Languages / Law, Economics, Management / Humanities and Social Sciences / Sciences, Technology, Health.
Covering a very broad spectrum of disciplines in the Human and Social Sciences, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is developing cutting-edge research in each of its fields. Sensitive to the concerns and issues of society such as gender, education, work, the city, disability, it participates fully in social progress through its research programs and numerous actions to disseminate knowledge.
With thirty-two laboratories and eight research federations, covering the fields of Letters – Languages – Human and Social Sciences, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is committed to innovation, interdisciplinarity, partnership and international openness. Through the projects developed and carried out by its 936 professors and researchers, it promotes dialogue between the human and social sciences and the hard sciences, and places research at the heart of contemporary scientific and societal issues.
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Université de Lyon
The Université de Lyon is a world-class academic site of excellence. It is located at the heart of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in Lyon & Saint-Étienne.
The Université de Lyon, which is structured around 12 member institutions and 25 associated institutions, has three major objectives:
- To be a major, attractive and responsible university,
- To provide outstanding training and research opportunities,
- To develop and promote the dynamics of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site.
University of Montpellier
For the past 800 years, the University of Montpellier (UM) has strived to address scientific and societal challenges.
With 16 schools and institutes, and 78 research structures, UM brings together a vast community of knowledge ranging from science, technology, medicine, pharmacy, physical and sports activities, to law, political science, economics and management.
UM is a research-intensive university that plays a leading role in the Occitanie region’s dynamism and is resolutely open towards the world. It receives international recognition in numerous scientific fields such as biology and health, agri-environment, chemistry, information and communication sciences and technologies, law and management. Today, with its partners, it leads an ambitious internationally oriented program to further promote Montpellier as a “University of Excellence” acting as a true European portal towards the southern countries.
Read moreUniversity of Nantes
In the last 50 years, Université de Nantes has taken training and research to the highest level and, in 2015 took a spot in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. Université de Nantes is ranked among the top 25 French universities.
Within its campuses, different disciplines meet to enrich one another. Université de Nantes is one of the rare French universities to promote interdisciplinarity. 38,000 students mix within the 20 faculties and schools there. 295 specialities are represented, 44 laboratories work in all fields of knowledge.
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University of New Caledonia
The University of New Caledonia (UNC) is a multidisciplinary university present in New Caledonia. It was created in 1987 under the name French University of the Pacific, in reference to the unique entity it then constituted with French Polynesia.
In 1999 the university became independent of French Polynesia and became the University of New Caledonia.
University of Orléans
The University of Orléans is characterised by its multi-disciplinarity.
The university has 3 faculties, 1 engineering university school (Polytech), 4 University Institutes of Technology (IUT), 1 Higher Schools for Professors and Educators (INSPE), 1 Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe (OSUC), 1 University school of physiotherapy (EUK).
Over 19,000 students, including over 2,000 foreign students, attend one of the university’s sites.
Every year its international focus gets stronger. Its capacity for innovation is reflected in the dynamism of the research it leads and in the technology transfers to regional, national and international companies.
The wide range of study programmes offered by the University, which includes many vocational courses, is developed with a strong connection with Research. Thanks to schemes to receive and help students and adults alike with their vocational integration, the University of Orléans is a key actor in territorial development.
Read morePanthéon-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 morePaul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University
Located in woodland to the north of the city, Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, Faculty of Letters, Arts, Languages, Human and Social Sciences, is named after Paul Valéry, the great writer from Sète. With a registered, labelled “20th century heritage site” campus, just 20 minutes from the city centre by tram, the University enjoys a vibrant setting where Mediterranean vegetation, abundant parkland and numerous works of art combine for the pleasure of students and campus users alike.
Montpellier University was France’s third university, established after Paris and Toulouse. Founded on 26th October 1289 by papal bull under Pope Nicholas IV, it included Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Law. In 1970, these former faculties became three separate Universities, including Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3.
The university campus is evolving, expanding and transforming. Several projects are currently planned or underway, including a General Resources Building, a new Staff House, or the future “Learning Centre” or Atrium, with its bold architecture, a striking statement at the entrance to the campus.
Opened in 2017, the Saint-Charles site, looking out onto the city, is the University’s research showcase. The site hosts 19 interdisciplinary research teams, a Labex (Laboratory of Excellence), an ERC (European Research Council) programme, an IDEFI (Initiatives of excellence in innovative training) project, as well as Montpellier’s Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Sud.
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University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour
The University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) is a multidisciplinary university which covers three major areas of study:
- law, economics, business, management
- science and technology
- literature, languages, arts, social sciences and humanities and sport
UPPA offers its students initial or continuing education, work/study programmes or apprenticeships, to obtain Bachelor’s, Master’s and vocational degrees and Doctorates through its 5 UFRs (Teaching and Research units) and two Doctoral schools.
The university also includes two IUTs (University Institute of Technology), one IAE (University School of Management), two engineering schools (ENSGTI, covering industrial technology engineering and ISA BTP covering construction), a continuing education department and an apprenticeship training centre.
One of the particular features of UPPA is its location close to the Spanish border, between the mountains and the ocean, on 5 campuses on a very human scale: Anglet, Bayonne, Pau, Mont-de-Marsan and Tarbes.
The teaching teams at UPPA prepare 11,500 students to complete their course, but they are also attentive to the needs of students and are always available, and committed to our quality process.
With 24 research units associated with research bodies such as the CNRS, INRA and INRIA, research at UPPA covers :
- 5 strategic themes:
- Environment and materials
- Geo-resources
- Aquatic environments and resources
- Justice and territories
- Areas, borders and blending
- and one transversal and multidisciplinary theme: energy, environmental and social transitions.
- Institut Carnot ISIFoR (Institute for the sustainable engineering of fossil resources)
- Equipex MARSSEquipex MARSS (Mass Spectrometry centre for Reactivity and Speciation Sciences)
- Equipex in the XYLOFORESTXyloforest Programme network (development of the wood sector)
- Labex in the STORE-EX network (electrochemical storage of energy)
- LabCom, shared laboratory with URGO
Because of its geographic situation, UPPA is particularly well placed to develop original cross-border cooperation with Spain, by setting up:
- the PYREN Project: IDEFI (Initiative for excellence in innovative training) funded by “investment for the future” from the government,
- specific bursaries,
- internships in companies,
- 10 double degrees and joint thesis supervisions (34 in 2015).
UPPA hosts 1,700 international students and offers its own students the opportunity for international mobility through its many partnerships:
- 51 partner countries worldwide,
- 80 inter-university cooperation agreements,
- 179 Erasmus partner universities.