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The Sorbonne building, part of Sorbonne University and Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.. Paris and its region have one of the highest concentrations of universities in France, with a student population of over 730,000 (not counting foreign universities with Paris branches). [1]
The institute was established by an English woman, Edith Williams, in 1894, [2] with the support of the then British ambassador, Lord Dufferin. [1] It was originally known as the "Franco-British Guild", which from 1894 offered classes in conversational English to French students soon to qualify as teachers of English through more theoretical ...
In France, various types of institution have the term "University" in their name. These include the public universities, which are the autonomous institutions that are distinguished as being state institutes of higher education and research that practice open admissions, and that are designated with the label "Université" by the French ministry of Higher Education and Research. [1]
Paris Cité University (Paris region) Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris; Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ; Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ; Gustave Eiffel University (Paris region) ESIEE Paris - École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique; CY Cergy Paris University (Paris region)
Chapel of the main Sorbonne building. Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université) is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the University of Paris, one of the first universities in Europe.
It partly succeeded the Faculty of Arts of the former University of Paris (1150-1793). In 1896, it was joined to four other faculties in Paris to form the new University of Paris. It was dissolved in 1970, at the same time as the University of Paris. Sorbonne University and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University are its main successors today.
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university and Grand établissement based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. [1] It is a collegiate university with 11 constituent schools, with the oldest founded in 1530.
Dauphine was founded on 24 October 1968 as a university center with the status of a faculty, named Centre universitaire Dauphine. [9] On 17 December 1970, as part of the division of the ancient University of Paris into 13 universities, it became an "établissement public à caractère scientifique et culturel", named Université Paris-IX Dauphine.