The French public higher education system includes universities and other higher education institutes, that provide both education curricula and related degrees up to doctoral degree and also contribute to research activities. They are the backbone of the tertiary education institutions in France. They are listed as different categories, depending on their administrative status, size and extents of research activity compared to educational activities.
Aside to the nationally-funded public education system that provides recognised degrees to the vast majority of students in France and that keeps tuition fees low, there exist private institutes.
The eighty-one French public universities are organised per administrative 'académie'. Some of them have a joint collegial university cluster organisation for research, that is referred-to as 'Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES)'.
Hereafter is indicated the name of the académie with the name of the PRES in brackets when applicable, then the list of related universities in the 'académie'.
Aix-Marseille (PRES Aix-Marseille University): Provence · Mediterranean · Cézanne · Avignon
Amiens: Verne
Besançon: Franche-Comté
Bordeaux (PRES University of Bordeaux): Bordeaux 1 · Segalen · Montaigne · Montesquieu · Pau/Adour
Caen: Caen
Clermont-Ferrand (PRES Clermont Université): Auvergne · Pascal
Corsica: Paoli
Créteil (PRES Université Paris-Est): Paris 8 · Paris 12 · Paris 13 · Marne la Vallée
Dijon: Burgundy
French Guiana: French West Indies/Guiana
French Polynesia: French Polynesia
Grenoble: Savoie · Fourier · Mendès-France · Stendhal
Lille (PRES Université Lille Nord de France): Artois · Sci/Tech Lille I · Lille II · de Gaulle Lille III · Littoral · Valenciennes/Hainault-Cambrésis
Limoges: Limoges
Lyon (PRES University of Lyon): Bernard · Lumière · Moulin · Monnet
Montpellier: Montpellier 1 · Montpellier 2 · Valéry · Unîmes · Perpignan
Nancy/Metz (PRES Nancy-Université): Verlaine · Poincaré · Nancy 2
Nantes (PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans ): Angers · Maine · Nantes
Nice: Nice · South
Orleans/Tours: Orléans · Rabelais
New Caledonia: New Caledonia
Paris (PRES Paris Universitas · PRES Paris Institute of Technology · PRES Paris Centre Universités): Panthéon-Sorbonne · Pantheon-Assas · New Sorbonne · Paris-Sorbonne · Descartes · Curie · Diderot
Poitiers: Poitiers · La Rochelle
Reims: Reims
Rennes (PRES Université européenne de Bretagne): Western Brittany · Southern Brittany · Rennes 1 · Upper Brittany
Réunion: Réunion
Rouen: Le Havre · Rouen
Saint-Dénis: Saint-Dénis-Vincennes Paris 8
Strasbourg: Strasbourg · Upper Alsace
Toulouse (PRES University of Toulouse): Toulouse 1 · Le Mirail · Sabatier · Champollion
Versailles (PRES UniverSud Paris · PRES de Cergy-Pontoise): Cergy-Pontoise · Versailles · Évry · Nanterre · Paris-Sud
[edit] Public technical universities, institutes of technologies and autonomous scientific higher education institutes
The Établissements publics à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel (EPCSP) that are not listed as universities in the list above operate as university-grade institutes.
[edit] Other higher education institutes
Other higher education institutes usually can not provide their own degrees up to and including doctoral degree, so that there can not be considered in the same category as those listed above. The extent of their list is often subject to variations. They are however listed hereafter for convenience.
[edit] Grandes écoles
Main article:
Grandes Écoles[edit] Art schools
[edit] Private universities
- Center for Philosophical Studies
- Independent Cooperative Faculty
- Leonardo da Vinci University Center
- Free Faculties of Philosophy and Psychology
- Catholic universities
- Protestant universities
- Free Faculty of Reform Theology of Aix-en-Provence
- Free Faculty of Protestant Theology of Montpellier
- Free Faculty of Protestant Theology of Paris
- Others
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