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SORBONNE UNIVERSITY

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • A public research university 

  • Located in Paris 

  • Motto: Creators of futures 

  • The number of students is 53 000

  • There are 3 300 academic staff 

  • 3 faculties: Science and Engineering, Arts and Humanities, and Medicine

  • Established in 1257 to rival the schools held by the Cloister of Notre-Dame 

  • First known as the Sorbonne College and existed under the University of Paris banner 

  • Faculties were created in 1866 to join the Sorbonne Universities Association 

  • Later, the Paris-Sorbonne University and the Pierre and Marie Curie University came together to make the now Sorbonne University 

COURSES AND PROGRAMMES

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:

  • More than 150 undergraduate programs across all faculties 

  • Students can join in the second or third year of their undergraduate studies 

MASTERS AND PhD COURSES:

  • 23 doctoral schools and 3900 doctoral students

  • Various Master's with specialization in the second year of the Master's program

RESEARCH PROGRAMS:

  • 135 research units 

  • Partners with institutions like CNRS and other notable institutes 

  • Pluridisciplinary research areas 

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ALUMNI:

  • 6 Nobel prizes 

  • 5 Fields medalists 

  • 1 Turing awardee

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • Anne L’Huilier 

  • Emmanuelle Charpentier 

  • Cédric Villani

  • Ngô Bảo Châu

  • Marie Curie

  • Yann LeCun

  • Simone de Beauvoir 

CAMPUS INFO:

  • 27 campus sites 

  • 79 laboratories in Paris 

  • Most notable institutes include the Astrophysics Institute of Paris, the Henri Poincaré Insitute for Mathematics, LIP6, and the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics

  • The faculty of Medicine works with 9 hospitals in Paris

  • 19 libraries on campus and 31 more libraries associated with other institutions

REQUIREMENTS:

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