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PARIS-SACLAY UNIVERSITY

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France

  • The number of students is approximately 48 000

  • There are around 10 500 academic staff

  • Founded in 2019 after merging four ‘grandes ecoles’, research institutes, and engineering schools

  • It succeeded the University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI)

  • Was founded to rival top universities like MIT and become a leader in research in Europe and in the world

COURSES AND PROGRAMMES

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:

  • There are various fields of study comprising a large number of undergraduate programs. Notable fields of study are Medicine, Law, Agriculture and Food, Engineering, Science and Information Technologies, Humanities​

  • Undergraduate programs are dispenses by University Paris-Saclay faculties, Versailles-Saint-Quentin University, and University of Evry Val-d’Essonne

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES:

  • Has more than 300 research units

  • Research focuses on Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences, Social sciences, and IT among others.

  • Partners with many research institutions such as CNRS, INSERM, CEA, and SOLEIL

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ALUMNI:

  • 5 Nobel laureates

  • 12 Fields medalist

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • Alain Aspect

  • Bernard Arnault

  • Cédric Villani

  • Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie

  • Gustave Eiffel

CAMPUS INFO:

  • 5 teaching and research faculties

  • 3 technical university institutes

  • 1 engineering school

  • 4 Grandes écoles

  • 2 associate institutions

  • Has its own botanical garden and several artworks like paintings and sculptures spread around the various campus

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