Cergy-Pontoise University (French: ''Université de Cergy-Pontoise'') was a French university, located in

Cergy-Pontoise Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its populatio ...

, France. On 1 January 2020, the university merged with the International School of Information Processing Sciences (EISTI) and the University of Paris-Seine to form CY Cergy Paris University.

University is a public university and a leading centre of teaching and research, which welcomes 18,000 students and 1,500 international students interested in studying abroad. The university is located in the west of Paris (30 km from central

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

), in the

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.

department. The university also managed the Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (in cooperation with the

Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Un ...

Faculties

The university offers all levels of graduate and post-graduate studies. 144 bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees are available in a wide range of fields :

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

and

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a Government agency, government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includ ...

, languages,

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

, and science and technology. A specialty is a German-French course of law studies organized together with the

University of Düsseldorf A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

which annually gives 15 German and 15 French law students the possibility to study both legal systems since 2005. Graduates of this three year law course are awarded the German legal ''"Zwischenprüfung"'' (German

LL.B. Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

equivalent) as well as the French ''"licence mention droit"'' (French

equivalent). Since 2008, the universities offer a subsequent two-year course whose participants specialize in business, labor as well as employment law and graduate with the French ''"Master 2 mention droit de l'entreprise"'' (French J.D. equivalent). Subsequently, they are also eligible for the German state examination in law (German J.D. equivalent) and for an admission exam with a French attorney's law school (École de formation de barreau - EFB).''Voraussetzungen für die École de formation de barreau''
École de formation de barreau, retrieved 22 October 2017.

Research pole

The Cergy-Pontoise University as well as all upper education institutions of Cergy-Pontoise are organized in a PRES (Research and Upper Education Pole) including : * CY Tech, formerly EISTI, * groupe

ESSEC The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (more commonly ESSEC Business School or ESSEC) is a major French business and management school, with non-profit association status (French association law of 1901) founded in 1907 ...

, * ENSEA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications *

ITIN Itin, itín or ITIN may refer to *Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, a United States tax processing number * International Token Identification Number, a unique identifier of tokens build upon Blockchain technology * Ilya Itin (born 1967), ...

, Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Réseaux et Systèmes d'Information * ENSAPC, École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise * EBI (École de Biologie Industrielle) * EPMI ( École d'électricité, de Production et des Méthodes Industrielles) * EPSS (École Pratique de Service Social) * ESCOM (École supérieure de chimie organique et minérale) * ILEPS (Institut Libre d'Éducation Physique Supérieur) * ISTOM (Institut Supérieur d'agro-développement) * ESCIA, école supérieure de comptabilité, gestion et finance

References

External links

Web site of the Cergy-Pontoise University (French)

Web site of Professional Bachelor's degree in International Trade and International Tourism (Cergy-Pontoise University)
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Faculties

Research pole

See also

References

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