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78-623: The university was officially founded in 1979 from several colleges founded in the 1960s and 1970s. To avoid a straight choice between the two biggest towns of the Savoie/Haute-Savoie departments, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study. The university has three campuses: In addition, the university's presidence and administrative buildings are located in Chambéry. After Paris I , Pantheon-Assas University and Strasbourg III , Savoy has

156-658: A "prestigious" "way of excellence" for "top-level lawyers". The Institut français de presse (in English: French Press Institute ), is the unit of Training and Research in Media, Communication and Journalism since 1970. Founded in 1937 in the Faculty of Law of Paris , the Institut des Sciences de la Presse (Press Sciences Institute) became the Institut français de presse in 1951. The department

234-590: A faculty-led publication in English, the Sorbonne-Assas Law Review, since 2012. University–wide (law, economics, management, media...), the university has an acceptance rate of 20%. 22.79% of students accepted by the university having received highest honors ("mention très bien") in high school during the 2019 session (second university in France, behind Paris 1 with 22.84%). In Law, within

312-490: A free faculty in 1905), and the École supérieure de pharmacie . It was inaugurated on 19 November 1896 by its president, Félix Faure . The universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre-et-Marie-Curie were created as a result of the university reform prepared by Edgar Faure in 1968. At that time, the University of Paris , divided into five faculties, was split into several interdisciplinary universities. Some, including

390-850: A new international institution. The most famous projects are : Since 2014, the Sorbonne College for bachelor's degrees ("Collège des Licences de la Sorbonne") has been coordinating the academic projects of Sorbonne University with Panthéon-Assas University , the law school of the Sorbonne University Group which has not merged into the Sorbonne University and remained independent. It also offers cross-institutional academic courses in many fields, allowing students to graduate from both institutions. For example, some cross-institutional bachelor's degrees ("double licences") are proposed to students in : As it

468-399: A scientific council, and a council for studies and university life. Members of these boards serve two-year terms. The president of Panthéon-Assas is elected by members of the administration council, for a four-year tenure; he or she presides over this council. The president is assisted by two vice-presidents and several professors elected within their respective academic departments. Members of

546-448: A second-year "path", within a 2-year masters), under the following names: Originally exclusively linked to research studies and doctoral studies, the 5th-year LL.M. is now part of the joint Master's program and has become the norm in France for lawyers (including barristers ). They have become quite selective and in competition with one another, among all the programs in France. Many LL.M. programs have been created at Panthéon-Assas since

624-563: Is Jussieu Campus , officially named "Pierre and Marie Curie Campus". It houses the Sorbonne University Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Sorbonne Polytechnic School , Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne Institute for Environmental Transition, the Institute of Health Engineering (IUIS) and the Institute of Computing and Data Sciences (ISCD). The first buildings are from 1957. The main part of

702-697: 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 . Its current iteration was formed in 2018 by the merger of Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). Sorbonne University

780-460: Is a member of the Conférence des Grandes écoles and recognized by the profession of journalists. The CFJ has trained a large number of great journalists ( Bernard Pivot , David Pujadas , Florence Aubenas , Pierre Lescure ...), and attracts each year nearly a thousand candidates for around fifty places. Sorbonne University Sorbonne University ( French : Sorbonne Université )

858-996: Is also home to the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group . Two other campuses are the Clignancourt and Malesherbes centers of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in Philosophy, History, Geography , Musicology , English and Spanish take their classes at the Clignancourt center. The Clignancourt Library contains 78,000 works, 210 French and international periodicals and 800 educational DVDs. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in French literature , French language, Latin , and Ancient Greek take their classes at

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936-762: Is in the historic central Sorbonne building, located at 47 rue des Écoles, in the historic Latin Quarter university campus. The building is the undivided property of the 13 successor universities of the University of Paris, managed by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris . Besides the monuments of the Cour d'Honneur, the Sorbonne Chapel and the Grand Amphithéâtre , the building houses

1014-642: Is jointly governed by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and by SUAD's board of trustees, with six members, three of whom are appointed by the home Sorbonne University and the other three appointed by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. The president of SUAD is the president of Sorbonne University in Paris, currently Prof Nathalie Drach-Temam. Academic programmes are offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in

1092-591: Is offered for one or two year(s) to students who do not meet the French language requirement for registration. The establishment of the university demonstrates the keenness of Abu Dhabi to create an international hub in culture and education, having also signed a contract with the Louvre in 2007 to create the Louvre Abu Dhabi , and with New York University in 2007 to create New York University Abu Dhabi . SUAD

1170-519: Is one of the most sought after universities by students and researchers from France , Europe , and the French speaking countries . Most notably, Marie Skłodowska-Curie , who came from Poland in 1891 and joined the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris , was also the first woman to become a professor at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie are considered the founders of

1248-426: Is ranked first university in France, and 44th in the world. UPMC is a member of Sorbonne University Association . Sorbonne students can study abroad for a semester or a year at partner institutions such as McGill University , University of Toronto , King's College London , and University of Warwick . Members have worked on several projects in order to strengthen the relations between them and potentially create

1326-620: Is ranked in range 39 globally and 3rd in France. In the Times Higher Education European Teaching Rankings 2024, Sorbonne University was ranked in fourth place in France. In the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2019, Sorbonne University was ranked in range 51–60 globally and 2nd in France. The 2021 QS World University Rankings ranked Sorbonne University 83rd overall in

1404-399: Is situated at 12 Place du Panthéon. It is registered among the national heritage sites of France . History under the Faculty of Law of Paris The largest campus of Panthéon-Assas is located on Rue d'Assas and receives second-year to four-year law students. It was designed by Charles Lemaresquier , Alain le Normand, and François Carpentier to accommodate the growing number of students at

1482-534: Is the case in the Anglo-American university system, Sorbonne University proposes a major-minor system, that is currently being deployed at the university. Sorbonne University, in partnership with INSEAD, also offers all of its alumni and PhD students a professionalizing course in business management to complete their curriculum. Since 2010, every PhD student is being delivered an honorary diploma labeled Sorbonne University. This diploma highlights and gathers

1560-421: Is the first higher education institution in Paris region to win such an endowment. The university was established by a decree issued 21 April 2017, taking effect 1 January 2018. Sorbonne University has three faculties: Arts and Humanities, Science and Engineering, and Medicine. The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities provides studies in arts, languages, letters, and human and social sciences, and

1638-419: Is the largest in France. Fields such as history, geography, languages, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, classical and modern literature, foreign literature and civilisations, and the history of art and archaeology are part of this faculty. The Sorbonne Faculty of Science and Engineering is a major research institution in France. It can be considered the successor in direct line to the Faculty of Science of

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1716-612: Is the oldest and one of the finest French schools in the field of communication and journalism studies, in particular with Sorbonne University 's CELSA in Neuilly . The Centre de formation des journalistes (in English: CFJ Graduate School of Journalism) is the Journalism Graduate school ( Grande école ) of the university, located in the heart of the 12th arrondissement. The graduate school

1794-493: The ARWU . Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), chaplain to King Louis IX (Saint Louis), observed the difficulties experienced by poor "schoolchildren" in achieving the rank of doctor. In February 1257, he had a house ( domus ) officially established which he intended for a certain number of secular clergy who, living in common and without concern for their material existence, would be entirely occupied with study and teaching. This house

1872-662: The Assas Law School , in 2021, the rate of "with honors" and "with highest honors" mentions among the admitted students was 95% (first among undergraduate programs in France). The four historical Masters in Law or LL.M. of the Faculty of Law of Paris were the Masters in: 1° Roman Law and History of Law, 2° Private Law, 3° Public Law and, starting 1964, 4°Criminal Law. They are now rebranded as "Master 2" or "Parcours" (meaning

1950-658: The ESSEC Business School , a summer school in law and economics, the Yale-Paris ;II-Essec Summer School . It created in 2011 the Sorbonne-Assas International Law School which have campuses in Paris, Singapore, Mauritius and Dubai. Assas has cooperation agreements with 315 partner universities, including 113 Erasmus+ partners. Panthéon-Assas offers several joint undergraduate and graduate programs with

2028-658: The Institut d'Études Hispaniques ' collection of 25,000 works on Iberian and Latin-American culture. Catalan studies take place at the Centre d'Études Catalanes in the Marais . The Sorbonne University also includes the Saint-Antoine Campus for the study of medicine ; the Cordeliers Convent , Curie and Raspail campuses for sciences studies. An exclusive international agreement between Sorbonne and

2106-638: The International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs was held in it in 2017. The scene at the Cairo airport from OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies was filmed in its entrance hall. The campus on Rue de Vaugirard provides for first-year students. It is located in the chapel wing of the former Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception, where Charles de Gaulle was a pupil; the chapel itself, dating from

2184-622: The Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (Quantum Physics, shared with PSL University ). The Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences, in association with the Greater Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP), manages the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group ( Hôpital Charles-Foix , Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital , Hôpital Fondation Rothschild , Hôpital Saint-Antoine , Hôpital Tenon , Hôpital Armand-Trousseau , Hôpital de La Roche-Guyon ) and

2262-610: The Panthéon-Sorbonne University , Sorbonne Nouvelle University , Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University , under the administration of Panthéon-Sorbonne . It is open exclusively to undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students. With the former archives of the now-defunct University of Paris, 2,500,000 books, 400,000 of them ancient, 2,500 historical manuscripts, 18,000 doctoral dissertation papers, 17,750 past and current French and international periodicals and 7,100 historical printing plates,

2340-760: The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and University Center (CHU), founded in 1657 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. All undergraduate and graduate medical students study on this campus. Postgraduate courses are held at the Cordeliers Convent on the Latin Quarter campus. The hospital campus also houses the Sorbonne Health Simulation Department, the Paris Brain Institute and the Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (IHU-ICAN). The campus

2418-524: The Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital , promoting multidisciplinary research, and training doctors and other health professionals. There is no law school as such in Sorbonne University. In 1971, most of the law professors from the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Paris decided to restructure it as a university, called Panthéon-Assas University Paris (after the two main campuses of

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2496-717: The Sainte-Geneviève Library or the French National Library . The university's publishing house, Éditions Panthéon-Assas , was established in 1998. Panthéon-Assas hosts several faculty-led publications in French: Jus Politicum (Political Law Journal) since 2008, the Revue de droit d'Assas (Assas Law Review) since 2010 and Droits fondamentaux (Human Rights Journal) since 2012. They are all available online. It also hosts

2574-638: The Serpente Library that has 55,000 works and 292 past and current French and international periodicals. All doctoral dissertations since 1 January 1986 have been stored at the Serpente Library. Both the Institut d'Urbanisme et d'Aménagement and the Institut d'Études Hispaniques in the Latin Quarter campus host third year and graduate students of Geography and Iberian and Latin American studies. The Marcel Bataillon Library houses

2652-517: The Sorbonne University . It has also joint programs with other French universities and institutions such as INSEAD ( Sorbonne University Alliance ), Dauphine, PSL University , Mines Paris, PSL University , Sciences Po Paris , ESSEC Business School, CY Cergy Paris University or HEC Paris . In 2013, the university set up an e-learning platform, called Agor@ssas . It created that year a distance-learning undergraduate degree in law,

2730-739: The University of Paris with the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences . It has 79 laboratories in the Paris region, most in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of the most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré (Mathematics), Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (Astrophysics), LIP6 (Informatics / Computer Science), Institut des systèmes intelligents et de robotique (Robotics), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche (foundations of Mathematics, shared with University Paris Cité ) and

2808-702: The University of Paris-Sorbonne , retained the name " Sorbonne " and premises in the historic centre of the University of Paris, which had until then been mainly devoted to the Faculties of Arts and Sciences. The University of Paris-VI is created from the majority of the teaching and research units of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (the others joining the universities of Paris-VII Denis Diderot (now Université Paris Cité ), Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, Paris-XII and Paris-XIII in Villetaneuse) and part of

2886-479: The 18th century, was transformed into a lecture hall in the 1980s. The structure is a national heritage site. The Center of Roman Law and Legal History of Panthéon-Assas, hosting its research centers in legal history, is situated inside the Collège Sainte-Barbe , former school founded in 1460. The school was founded by Pierre Antoine Victor de Lanneau, teacher of religious studies , as a college of

2964-474: The 19 centres of Panthéon-Assas are located in the Latin Quarter university campus, with the main buildings on Place du Panthéon ( Panthéon Centre ) and Rue d'Assas ( Assas Centre ), hence its current name. The university is composed of five departments specializing in law, political science , economics , journalism and media studies , and public and private management , and it hosts 24 research centres and five specialized doctoral schools . Every year,

3042-848: The Decree of 16 April 1974 authorizing the creation of more specialized LL.M.s than the 4 original ones, most notably the LL.M. in International Law and LL.M. in Comparative Law. Most of Panthéon-Assas' LL.M.s enjoy a similar strong reputation in France and Europe. Panthéon-Assas offers international integrated undergraduate programs ( Bachelor-Double maîtrise ) with universities such as Oxford University , University College London , King's College London , University College Dublin . It offers international integrated postgraduate programs (LL.M.-Master 2) with some universities such as, on top of

3120-462: The Faculty of Law of Paris. The official name of the university was changed to 'Paris II Panthéon-Assas University' in 1990. The name Panthéon-Assas is a reference to the main addresses of the pre-1968 Faculty of Law of Paris, which are now part of the university; namely, the buildings on Place du Panthéon and Rue d'Assas . The university is also referred to as 'Assas' or 'Paris II,' 'Sorbonne-Assas' and ' Sorbonne Law School '. After

3198-531: The French Government to host three preparatory schools "Prépa Talents". On top of its core curriculum, Panthéon-Assas developed a number of internal "university diplomas" delivered to its top students. In particular, the Collège de droit (3-year undergraduate diploma) and the École de droit (2-year graduate diploma), largely talked about in the press, which consider these programs as constituting

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3276-575: The Malesherbes center. All undergraduate students in these academic disciplines study in the central Sorbonne building in their third year. Undergraduate and graduate students in German studies , Slavic studies , Italic studies and Romanian studies , regardless of level, take all of their classes at the Malesherbes center. The Malesherbes center also hosts three research centers in Italian culture ,

3354-596: The Paris Law Faculty: place du Panthéon and rue d’Assas campuses). Panthéon-Assas now provides legal studies for Sorbonne University as an independent university. Another law school, the Panthéon-Sorbonne University School of Law (also a spin-off of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Paris ) also exists in Paris, but has no connection with Sorbonne University. Sorbonne University' s historical campus

3432-593: The Sorbonne Library is the largest university library in Paris and was entirely refurbished in 2013. The Sorbonne University Library 's Arts and Humanities Department (French: Pôle Lettres de la Bibliothèque de Sorbonne Université ), part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, offers its students and teaching staff access to 18 libraries and thematic collections. The catalog includes 600,000 books, 350,000 e-books, 60,000 issues of online periodicals and 165 databases. The largest of Sorbonne University's campuses

3510-671: The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities take their classes at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie , located at the main entrance of the Jardin du Luxembourg . Constructed by architect Paul Bigot between 1925 and 1930, the Mesopotamian-style building was classified as a national historic building in 1996. It hosts the Michelet Library that contains 100,000 volumes of work on art history and archeology with 100 French and international periodicals. Only 10,000 of

3588-552: The Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Paris Rectorat, the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris , and part of the universities Panthéon-Sorbonne , Sorbonne Nouvelle , Paris Cité and the École Nationale des Chartes as well as the École Pratique des Hautes Études that are constituent schools of PSL University . Before the 19th century, the Sorbonne occupied several buildings. The chapel

3666-652: The University of Paris. Ignace de Loyola , Gustave Eiffel , Alfred Dreyfus among others were students there. The campus in the town of Melun hosts local first-year students. It is located in the old town of Melun, on Saint-Étienne Island, among Roman and Gothic remains. The Institute of Law and Economics of Pantheon-Assas University is located there. An extension is currently under construction. Panthéon-Assas also has campuses in Singapore , Mauritius , and Dubai . The campus on Rue Charcot receives third-year and master students in economics. The university inherited

3744-423: The University of Paris. It was built between 1959 and 1963 on the former grounds of Société Marinoni. At the time of its inauguration, its main lecture theatre was the largest in France, with 1,700 seats. Renovation and expansion in the 21st century Centre Assas building, which was going under renovation between 2007 and 2017, has been completely redesigned and now hosts a modern learning center, created by

3822-478: The administration council choose the faculty representatives who make up the scientific council. The university inherited the academic departments from the Faculty of Law of Paris . It currently houses five of them: one for private law and criminal sciences , one for public law and political science, one for Roman law and legal history , one for economics and management, and one for journalism and communication. The university has 18 campuses in Paris, 1 in

3900-454: The architect Alain Sarfati. Cultural events The Assas building has been hosting concerts of classical music for decades. Herbert von Karajan , Leonard Bernstein , Georg Solti , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Martha Argerich , Gundula Janowitz , Christa Ludwig , Alfred Brendel , Arthur Rubinstein , Seiji Ozawa , Carlo Maria Giulini , or Samson François , among others, have performed in it. The 28th edition of

3978-442: The art history and archeology works are open to students, the others requiring special authorization of usage. Graduate Art History and Archeology students take their courses at the Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art in the Galerie Colbert, a partnered national institution of the university. The Maison de la Recherche campus is the central building for doctoral studies that hosts the history and geography departments. It houses

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4056-406: The brand name Panthéon-Assas University Paris , is a university in Paris . It is considered the direct inheritor of the Faculty of Law of Paris , the second-oldest faculty of Law in the world, founded in the 12th century. Following the 1970 split of the University of Paris , often referred to as the 'Sorbonne,' in the aftermath of the May 68 events, law professors faced decisions regarding

4134-409: The campus, the " Grill d'Albert ", was built in 1964, and was completely refurbished from 1996 to 2016. Within the Sorbonne University Library , it houses 6 university libraries, including an important research library in mathematics and computer science . The Pitié-Salpêtrière Campus is home to Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences and its Department of Medical Studies. It is located at

4212-399: The chapel into the whole was also Nénot's work with the construction of a cour d'honneur . The Sorbonne building is generally reserved for undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students in certain academic disciplines. Only students in Semitic studies, regardless of level, take all their classes at the Sorbonne campus. The Sorbonne Library is an inter-university library of

4290-405: The creation of a new Sorbonne University , to which Panthéon-Assas provides law courses in joint degrees, Sorbonne University wanted to integrate Panthéon-Assas as a faculty of law but Panthéon-Assas preferred to remain an independent university within the Sorbonne system. In 2022, its official name became Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. Panthéon-Assas is governed by an administration council,

4368-412: The cultures and literature of central Europe and the Balkans and the Germanic, Nordic and Dutch centers. The Malesherbes Library contains 200,000 works specializing in the study of foreign languages and cultures and 1,200 past and current French and international periodicals. More than 50,000 doctoral dissertations are available for public viewing. Undergraduate Art History and Archeology students of

4446-422: The essence of the Faculty of Law of Paris by reestablishing it as a new university. In pursuit of this ambition, they founded along with professors of economics the 'University of law, economics and social sciences of Paris' ( Université de droit, d'économie et de sciences sociales de Paris ), and kept in it the same buildings with the same research centers. Panthéon-Assas is considered today as direct inheritor of

4524-426: The first and unique one in France. It is taught by professors from Panthéon-Assas and leads to exactly the same degree offerings the same rights. In addition, "e-students" have access to "e-tutors" to help them with pedagogical and administrative questions. In July 2012, Panthéon-Assas became the first university in France to open preparatory school for the bar school entrance examination, which were until this point

4602-527: The fourth-highest number of Erasmus exchange students in France. The school of international relations has signed 228 conventions with universities in 82 countries, and the university takes more than 1,000 foreign students per year overall. Pantheon-Assas University Paris-Panthéon-Assas University (French: Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas , IPA: [ynivɛʁsite paʁi pɑ̃teɔ̃ asas] ), commonly known as Panthéon-Assas or Paris 2 (French: Paris II [paʁi dø] ) or under

4680-508: The future of their Faculty. 88 out of 108 law professors elected to sustain the legacy of the Faculty of Law of Paris by establishing a new university dedicated to the study of law . The university is housed within the same two buildings that previously accommodated the Faculty of Law of Paris. Panthéon-Assas, now an independent university, continues to offer the law courses associated with Sorbonne University , having declined to officially integrate as one of its faculties. The majority of

4758-457: The government of Abu Dhabi was signed on 19 February 2006, starting plans to bring Sorbonne University to Abu Dhabi. Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (SUAD) was established on 30 May 2008 on Reem Island by a decree of the ruler of Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates . All programs are taught in the French language except for the Bachelor of Physics and most of the masters programmes, that are taught in English . An intensive French language programme

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4836-403: The latter ones, Boston University , Humboldt University of Berlin , Ludwig Maximilians University , Sapienza University of Rome , University of Padua . Yale Law School and Panthéon-Assas ( Assas Law School ) signed in June 2011 an Agreement for Collaborative Activities to create an environment for long-term joint research, exchange. and programming activities. They organize, together with

4914-459: The modern-day Faculty of Science and Engineering of Sorbonne University . As of 2021, its alumni and professors have won 33 Nobel Prizes , six Fields Medals , and one Turing Award . According to the ARWU and THE university rankings, its three main French rivals are PSL University , Saclay University and Paris Cité University . The university ranks 11th in the world in mathematics, 13th in earth sciences and 8th in oceanography according to

4992-477: The monopoly of private preparatory schools. These courses were offered for a cheap price, and for free for students from low-income families (10% of the students of the preparatory school). This led private preparatory schools to plead unfair competition and the french courts ordered Panthéon-Assas to close the school. Today, the Bar preparation school is known as the IEJ-Institut d'Études Judiciaires "Pierre Reynaud". Assas' Melun campus has been selected in 2021 by

5070-449: The promulgation of laws on 28 April 1893, giving civil personality to the bodies formed by the union of several faculties of an academy, and 10 July 1896, giving the name of university to the bodies of faculties, the new University of Paris was created in 1896 through the merger of the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Letters, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Protestant Theology (created in 1877 and transformed into

5148-436: The research centers at Panthéon-Assas, there are: Each research center usually has one or several Research or Professional Masters of Laws programs ( LL.M. ) attached to it. The campuses at Rue d'Assas, Rue de Vaugirard, and Melun host the university libraries, which are open to all the students. The university's research centres, institutes and reading rooms host twenty-two more specialized libraries. The total seating area of

5226-447: The research centers from the Faculty of Law of Paris. Originally, the Faculty was not organized around research centers and professors were pursuing their research as part of Faculty in general. Hence, only newly emerging fields of research would have newly created institutes, whereas traditional subjects such as Roman law and legal history, private law in general and public law in general, would not necessarily have ones. Currently, among

5304-484: The same time, the Sorbonne Universities Association was renamed the Sorbonne University alliance; it includes the following institutions for academic cooperation: As part of the reforms of French Higher Education, on 19 March 2018, the international jury called by the French Government for the " Initiative d'excellence " (IDEX) confirmed the definite win of Sorbonne University. Consequently, Sorbonne University won an endowment of 900 Million euros with no limit of time. This

5382-416: The social sciences, humanities, law and sciences. Sorbonne University is consistently ranked in the top universities in Europe and the world. The first recognition of its existence as an integrated university came in 2018, when it appeared on the CWUR World University Rankings 2018–2019 in 29th place globally and 1st place in France. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020, Sorbonne University

5460-474: The town of Melun , and other campuses abroad. In 1753, Louis XV decided that a new building would be constructed for the Faculty of Law of Paris. Jacques-Germain Soufflot , alumnus of the Faculty who had become the architect of the King designed and supervised the construction. It took place from 1771 to 1773 and the new building opened in 1774. Nowadays, the administration offices and postgraduate studies (masters' and doctoral studies) are located in it. It

5538-438: The units of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris (the others joining the universities of Paris-V René Descartes (now Université Paris Cité ), Paris-VII Denis Diderot and Paris-XIII ). In 2010, some of the direct successors of the faculties of the University of Paris created the Sorbonne Universities Association . The following universities, members of the university system , decided to merge into Sorbonne University in 2018: At

5616-416: The university enrolls approximately 18,000 students, including more than 3,000 international students. The University of Paris , commonly referred to as the 'Sorbonne,' was founded in the middle of the 12th century and officially ceased to exist on 31 December 1970, following the student protests of 1968. Following the University of Paris split, the majority of law professors, 88 out of 108, opted to maintain

5694-554: The university's libraries spans over 3,500 m , and the university's collections gather over three hundred thousand volumes together. The new library at Centre Assas has been designed by the architect Alain Sarfati and has furniture designed by Philippe Starck . Professors and students also have free access to Cujas Library , which is the largest law library in Europe and to general research and study libraries in Paris, including

5772-629: The world and 3rd in France. Individual faculties at Sorbonne University also featured in the rankings. Before the merger of Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University , both had their own rankings in the world. Its founding predecessor Paris-Sorbonne University was ranked 222 in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2015. By faculty , it was ranked 9 in modern languages, 36 in arts and humanities (1st in France), and 127 in social sciences and management (5th in France). By academic reputation, it

5850-511: Was built in 1622 by the then-Provisor of the University of Paris, Cardinal Richelieu , during the reign of Louis XIII . In 1881, politician Jules Ferry decided to convert the Sorbonne into one single building. Under the supervision of Pierre Greard, Chief Officer of the Education Authority of Paris, Henri-Paul Nénot constructed the current building from 1883 to 1901 that reflects a basic architectural uniformity. The integration of

5928-436: Was named the college of Sorbonne . The old slogan of the establishment, " Sorbonne University, creators of futures since 1257 ", refers to this date. The college of Sorbonne was closed along with all the other colleges of the former University of Paris in 1793. The college of Sorbonne was located on the site of the current Sorbonne building, shared between Sorbonne University and Panthéon-Sorbonne University . Following

6006-541: Was often ranked as the best university in France. In 2014 UPMC was ranked 35th in the world, 6th in Europe and 1st in France by the Academic Ranking of World Universities . It was ranked 4th in the world in the field of mathematics by the same study. The 2013 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 112th overall in the world and 3rd in France. In 2013, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) , Université Pierre et Marie Curie

6084-580: Was ranked 80 (2nd in France), according to the QS World University Rankings, and 2nd in overall highest international reputation of all academic institutions in France, according to the Times Higher Education 2015. In 2014 Paris-Sorbonne ranked 227 in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings , 115 for Social Sciences and Management, 33 for Arts and Humanities. Pierre and Marie Curie University

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