List of public universities in France

The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research lists 160 public higher education establishments. It divides these into four categories:

* 65 universities
* 60 ''écoles''
* 25 ''grands établissements''
* 10 other establishments

These are summarized in the following template and further detailed in the lists that follow.

List of public universities in France

In France, various types of institution have the term "University" in their name. These include the public universities, which are the autonomous institutions that are distinguished as being state institutes of higher education and research that practice open admissions, and that are designated with the label "Université" by the French ministry of Higher Education and Research. These also include the communities of universities and institutions (COMUEs), which are degree-granting federated groups of universities and other institutes of higher education. The COMUEs replace the earlier (PRES), which were groupings of universities and institutes of higher education that existed from 2007 to 2013. As opposed to the PRES, the COMUEs can grant degrees in their own names.

Other types of French university-like institutions can be found in the list of colleges and universities in France; these include the national polytechnic institutes, the grandes écoles (among which are the three universities of technology), and private universities, such as the Catholic universities, the Protestant universities, the private secular universities, and the American University of Paris.

there are 65 public universities in France:

List of ''écoles'' in France

List of ''grands établissements'' in France

List of other public higher education establishments in France

List of historical or other universities

Historically, France has had city-wide public university systems:French public universities in some cities are commonly spoken of as being multiple campuses of a larger city university system. For instance, the University of Paris system is said to be composed of 13 campuses, Paris I through Paris XIII, and this was the case in 1970. However, this view no longer reflects the reality as of 2007, which is of largely autonomous universities that fall under the academies in ways that do not necessarily respect the old groupings. To take the Paris example, three universities that bear the University of Paris name, Paris VIII, Paris XII, and Paris XIII, are in fact in the Academy of Créteil, and two others, Paris X and Paris XI, are in the Academy of Versailles, whereas the University of Marne la Vallée, which does not have a University of Paris campus number, is governed by the Academy of Paris.
* University of Clermont-Ferrand
* University of Paris
* University of Grenoble
* University of Lyon
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* University of Rennes
* Université européenne de Bretagne
* Louis Pasteur University (now part of the University of Strasbourg)
* Marc Bloch University (now part of the University of Strasbourg)
* Robert Schuman University (now part of the University of Strasbourg)
* University of Toulouse
* UniverSud Paris
* Lille 1, Lille 2, Lille 3 (now part of the University of Lille)

See also

* List of colleges and universities in France
* List of colleges and universities by country
* Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur
* Grandes écoles
* Education in France
* Franco-German University

Notes and references

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