The Robert Schuman University (), also known as Strasbourg III or URS, was a university in

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. In 2007, there were nearly 10,000 students enrolled at the university, including more than 1,500 foreign students. The university tended to teach and research in fields such as

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and

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. This university also included three ''

grande école A (; ) is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other countries such as Morocco and Tunisia. are part of an alternative educational system that operates alongside the mainstream List of public universities in Franc ...

s'', the '' Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg'', the '' Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg'' (IECS), and the Centre Universitaire d'Enseignement du Journalisme (CUEJ). The ''Université Robert Schuman'' was named after the

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Robert Schuman Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (; 29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born France, French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democrat, Christian democratic (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist. ...

, not to be confused with

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Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

. On 1 January 2009, Robert Schuman University became part of the refounded

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and lost its status as an independent university.

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