The University of Limoges (''Université de Limoges'') is a French

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, based in

Limoges Limoges ( , , ; , locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region. Situated o ...

. Its chancellor is the rector of the Academy of Limoges (an administrative district in France for education and research). It counts more than 16,000 students and near 1,000 scholars and researchers. It offers complete curricula up to the doctorates and beyond in the traditional areas of knowledge. It was structured in October 1968 by the grouping of higher education institutions in Limoges. The oldest historical continuity is that of the faculties of pharmacy and medicine dating back to 1626. It is one of the main higher education institutions in the

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region. As of July 2015 it is a member of the Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University (''Université confédérale Léonard de Vinci'') along with the

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, the University of La Rochelle, François Rabelais University and several engineering schools. University of Limoges is ranked as the top 50 among the universities in France. University of Limoges is in the top 7% of universities in the world, ranking 29th in the France as 2020. Ranks 1st among universities in Limoges.

History

The university of Limoges was created in 1968 by the incorporation into a single institution of various research schools of higher learning in Limoges, some of them previously affiliated to the

. At the time of its creation it counted 7,000 students and soon expanded to 15,000 making it a middle size university in France. It inherits from a long tradition of research, innovation and teaching possibly dating back in the Middle Ages from the famed Abbaye Saint-Martial de Limoges founded in 848 and suppressed by the French Revolution in 1891, which was a major intellectual center in medieval Europe (technology of materials, enamel, manuscripts, scholarship, liturgy, theater, etc.). The modern School of Medicine and Pharmacy was created in 1626 (the present day's university council meets in the "Salle Saint-Alexis", the 17th century former chapel of the old Hôtel-Dieu University Hospital).

Academics

The university offers bachelor, master and doctorate degrees in line with the

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. There are five main departments: Unilim Fac Letter

* Department of Law and Economics * Department of Literature and Humanities * Department of Medicine * Department of Pharmacy * Department of Sciences and Technology

Institutes and schools

* University Institute of Technology (''Institut universitaire de technologie du Limousin'') University-libraries

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(IAE Limoges) * ''Institut de préparation à l'administration générale'' (IPAG), * ''Institut du Limousin de Formation aux Métiers de la Réadaptation'' (ILFOMER), * ''École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation'' (ESPE), * ENSIL-ENSCI (Graduate Engineering School). In addition, 3iL, School of Computer Engineering is associated with the University.

Research

The University of Limoges has grouped its research laboratories into five major institutes: * XLIM UMR CNRS 7252, a multidisciplinary research institute, in association with the

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(CNRS), is the result of the merger of four laboratories (LACO, LMSI, UMOP, IRCOM). It brings together more than 500 professors, CNRS researchers and doctoral students working in computer science, mathematics, optics, electromagnetism or electronics. Xlim 1

* IPAM (Institut des Procédés Appliqués aux Matériaux), bringing together two laboratories from the University and the École nationale supérieure de céramique industrielle, working on materials and process engineering. Limoges IRCER

* GEIST (Genomics, Environment, Immunity, Health and Therapeutics). * SHS (Human and Social Sciences). * GIO (Governance of Institutions and Organisations). The University also supports the activities of the NGO Europa, which is based in Limoges and is involved in the field of European public policies.

Notable faculty

Claude-Auguste Lamy Claude Auguste Lamy (; 15 June 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French physicist and chemist chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862; as a result, they are considered co-discoverers, although th ...

(1820-1878) - chemist who discovered the element thallium * Louis Pérouas (1923-2011) - specialist in the history of the French Catholic Church * François Pairault (born 1940) - historian *

Jacques Fontanille Jacques Fontanille (born 1948) is a French semiotician who is one of the main exponents of the Paris School of Semiotics. He has authored or co-authored ten books and a number of articles or book chapters whose topics span theoretical semiotics, ...

(born 1948) - semiotician; university president * Bertrand Lançon (born 1952) - historian and novelist, specialist of late Antiquity * Nicole Belloubet (born 1955) - jurist; university rector; Socialist politician; government minister * Bertrand Westphal (born 1962) - comparative literature and literary theory * Romain Garnier (born 1976) - linguist who specialises in Latin and Indo-European linguistics * Pierre Dusart - mathematician

Notable alumni

* Sheila Abed - Paraguayan lawyer and politician * Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (born 1951 in Souali, Djibouti) - politician; Prime Minister of Djibouti * Amadou Koné (born 1953) - writer from Cote d'Ivoire * David Jaomanoro (1953-2014) - Malagasy writer, playwright and poet *

Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi (born 24 October 1954) is an Argentine lawyer, diplomat and judge. She was a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 18 November 2009 to 10 March 2018 and was the first woman President of the IC ...

(born 1954) - Argentine lawyer, diplomat and judge * Yolaine de Courson (born 1954) - politician LREM * Sophie Dessus (1955-2016) - Socialist politician * Faustine Fotso (born 1965) - computer scientist, environmentalist, lawyer and politician from Cameroon *

Mamadou Tangara Mamadou Tangara (born 4 June 1965) is a Gambian diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2018, having previously served in 2012 and from 2010–2012. Tangara also served as Gambian Permanent Representative to t ...

(born 1965) - diplomat and politician from Gambia *

Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; ; ''Zineddin Lyazid Zidan''; ; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as an attacking midfi ...

(born 1972) - professional footballer; Sports Manager * Christophe Jerretie (born 1979) - politician LREM * Cherno Omar Barry - university administrator from Gambia