The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a

public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...

research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are "the key sites of Knowledge production modes, knowledge production", along with "intergenerational ...

based in

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...

in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

Dax The DAX (''Deutscher Aktienindex'' (German stock index); ) is a stock market index consisting of the 40 major German blue chip companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is a total return index. Prices are taken from the Xetra t ...

Gradignan Gradignan (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France. It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is located on its southwest side. Thus, it is a member of the Bordeaux Métropole. Population Education institutions ...

Périgueux Périgueux (, ; or ) is a commune in the Dordogne department, in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of Dordogne, and the capital city of Périgord. It is also the seat of ...

Pessac Pessac (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it. Pessac is also home to ...

, and

Talence Talence (, ; , ; ) is a commune in the department of Gironde, administrative region of New Aquitaine, France. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the south side. It is a member of the Bordeaux Mét ...

. There are also several smaller teaching sites in various other towns in the region, including in

Bayonne Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...

. The University of Bordeaux counts more than 50,000 students, over 6,000 of which are international. It is a member of the ComUE d'Aquitaine university group.

History

The original ''Université de Bordeaux'' was established by

Pope Eugene IV Pope Eugene IV (; ; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 March 1431 to his death, in February 1447. Condulmer was a Republic of Venice, Venetian, and a nephew ...

on 7 June 1441 when Bordeaux was an English town. In 1793, during the French Revolution, the

National Convention The National Convention () was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the ...

abolished the university. The university re-opened in 1896 as a result of the law of 18 July 1896. In 1970, the university was split into three universities: Bordeaux I, Bordeaux II, and Bordeaux III. In 1995, Bordeaux IV split off from Bordeaux I. Since 2014, the aforementioned universities have been reunited to form the University of Bordeaux, except for Bordeaux III, which did not take part in the merger and remains independent of the University of Bordeaux.

Academics

The University of Bordeaux has a strong reputation for studies in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

, ranking fourth in France in

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

's 2023 ranking.

Campuses

Unlike most North American universities, most French universities do not have one central campus. The University of Bordeaux has seven facilities within the environs of Bordeaux, and 22 sites across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. University of Bordeaux Peixotto Campus

The University's Peixotto, Bordes, and Montagne-Montesquieu campuses form a continuous university area south of the city center, in the areas of

and

. These house the University's science and technology faculty, as well as parts of the college of law, political science, economics and management. Parts of

Bordeaux Montaigne University Bordeaux Montaigne University (, ; formerly ''Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3'') is a public university in Pessac, France, approximately 8 kilometres (5 miles) southwest of the city centre of Bordeaux. It forms part of the ComUE d' ...

are also on this campus. University of Bordeaux Pey Berland Building

The University's law department also has a site at ''Place Pey Berland'', in close proximity to the

Bordeaux Cathedral Bordeaux Cathedral, officially known as the Primatial Cathedral of St Andrew of Bordeaux (), is a Catholic Church, Catholic church dedicated to Saint Andrew and located in Bordeaux, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bordeaux-Bazas, Arch ...

, the Bordeaux courthouse, and the ''

École nationale de la magistrature The French National School for the Judiciary ( French: ''École nationale de la magistrature'' or ENM) is a French ''grande école'', founded in 1958 by French President Charles de Gaulle and the father of the current French Constitution, Michel ...

'', the French national judiciary school. University of Bordeaux Bastide Campus

The

Bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides ...

campus is located on the right bank of the

Garonne The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ; or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux � ...

river, opposite the city center, and houses the University's ''Institut d'administration des entreprises'', or business school,

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, as well as some of the University's ''Institut universitaire de technologie'', IUT de Bordeaux, programs related to accounting and management. University of Bordeaux Victoire Campus

The University's Victoire campus is located on ''

Place de la Victoire Place may refer to: Geography * Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population ** Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Oft ...

'', at the end of '' Rue Saint Catherine''. Part of the building was designed as a ''

monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

'' in 2016. The Victoire campus contains the faculties of anthropology, sociology, education, and psychology. In 1915, French actress

Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas fils, ...

had her leg amputated at the nearby Hôpital Saint-Augustin; the amputated leg was reportedly kept in the medical faculty at the Victoire campus until the faculty was moved in 1977.

Notable alumni

Academia

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Activism

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Louis Clayton Jones Louis Clayton Jones (November 13, 1935 – January 9, 2006) was an American international attorney and civil rights leader. An outspoken proponent for equal rights, he was a founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. Background A nativ ...

(1935–2006), African-American international attorney and civil rights leader

Business

Mireille Gillings Mireille Gingras Gillings, (born 1962) is a US-based Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur. She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm in 2004, and is the San Diego, California, company's CEO and Executive Chair. The ...

(b. 1971), French Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur *

Olivier Le Peuch Olivier Le Peuch (born 1963/1964) is a French businessman, and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield services company, effective 1 August 2019. Early life and education Le Peuch was born and raised in F ...

(born 1963/1964), French businessman, CEO of Schlumberger

Law

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Literature and journalism

François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (; ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...

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Performing arts

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Politics

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(1929–1999), King of

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(1778–1832), French statesman *

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(1893–1977), Head of State of

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(b. 1951), Lebanese politician * Alain Vidalies (b. 1951), the French Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries *

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Sciences

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ()(28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than exist ...

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(1860–1955), French physician *

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(b. 1953), French chemist and professor *

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(b. 1960), French engineer and professor

Sports

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(b. 1941), Malian football official and former coach and player *

Bixente Lizarazu Bixente Jean Michel Lizarazu (, born 9 December 1969) is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He rose through the ranks at Bordeaux, where he was part of a team that finished second in the French First Division in ...

(b. 1969), Basque–French retired footballer

Visual arts

* Charles James (1906–1978), English-American fashion designer

Winemaking

* Emma Gao *

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References

Literature

''International Dictionary of University Histories''
Routledge, 2013, pp. 429–431. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bordeaux 0, University Of

University of Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are al ...

Educational institutions established in the 15th century 1441 establishments in Europe 1440s establishments in France Forestry education Universities and colleges formed by merger in France