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Paris Cité University


Latin: Universitas Parisiensis
TypePublic
Established19 March 2019 (2019-03-19)
1970 – Paris V & Paris VII
c. 1150 – University of Paris
AffiliationSorbonne Paris Cité Alliance
Udice Group
PresidentPr. Christine Clerici
Academic staff
4,500[1]
Administrative staff
3,000[1]
Students64,100[1]
Location
Paris
,
France
CampusUrban (with the Latin Quarter and The Great Mills campuses)
ColoursBordeaux   and grey  
Sporting affiliations
Paris Region University Sports League (LIFSU), Paris Cité University Sports Association
Websiteu-paris.fr

Paris Cité University (French: Université Paris Cité) is a public research university located in Paris, France. It was created by decree on 20 March 2019, resulting from the merger of Paris Descartes (Paris V) and Paris Diderot (Paris VII) universities, established following the division of the University of Paris in 1970.[2] It was originally established as the University of Paris (French: Université de Paris), but was renamed by decree in March 2022 to its current name.[3] The university headquarter is located in the École de Médecine building, in the 6th arrondissement at boulevard Saint-Germain.

In 2023, it was France's 4th best university in clinical medicine - behind Paris-Saclay University and Sorbonne University - 1st in public health and 24th in the world in mathematics according to the Shanghai ranking. With its 15 teaching hospitals and 28,800 medical students, it is the leading medical school in France and one of the largest in Europe. [4]

History

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Further information: University of Paris

1970: Division of the University of Paris

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Following the disruption, de Gaulle appointed Edgar Faure as minister of education; Faure was assigned to draft reforms about the French university system, with the help of academics.[5] Their proposal was adopted on 12 November 1968;[5] in accordance with the new law, the faculties of the University of Paris were to reorganize themselves.[6]

Some of the new universities took over the old faculties and the majority of their professors: social sciences by Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University;[7] law by Paris-II Panthéon-Assas University;[8] humanities by Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle[9][10] and Paris-IV Sorbonne University; science by Paris-V Descartes University,[11][10] Paris-VI Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris-VII Paris Diderot University, and Paris-XI Orsay University.[12]

The thirteen successor universities to the University of Paris are now split over the three academies of the Île-de-France region.

2000: University of Paris reunification projects

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The Universities of Paris III, Paris V, and Paris VII have been moving closer together since the mid-2000s as part of the establishment of research and higher education clusters (PRES) and the Campus Plan. An initial understanding bringing them together took place in January 2006 with the creation of the association Paris Centre Universities, which then brought together the university with those of Paris 1, Paris 5, and Paris 13, whereas the other Parisian universities had united around the Paris Universitas project the previous year. The projects put forward by these initial meetings of institutions were not retained in the first phase of the campus plan of April 2008, and new links are being formed.

University of Paris VII subsequently became part of the Sorbonne Paris Cité project, which also brings together the universities of Paris III, Paris V and Paris 13, as well as other higher education institutions such as Sciences Po, and the PRES was officially created on 13 February 2010.

2019: Merger of the Universities of Paris V and Paris VII

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In 2017, Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle University and Sciences Po withdrew from the merger project but the universities of Paris V and Paris VII decided on a merger scheduled for 1 January 2019. The University of Paris was created as a university grouping on 20 March 2019.

The Universities of Paris V and Paris VII were dissolved on 1 January 2020 while the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, as a "component-institution", retains its legal personality.

On 21 June 2019, Christine Clerici was elected president of University of Paris. On proposals, she appointed the following faculty councils: Alain Zider, dean of the Faculty of Science, Xavier Jeunemaitre, dean of the Faculty of Health, and Sylvain Moutier, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Academic Senate of University of Paris, meeting on 8 October 2019, elected Edouard Kaminski, vice-president for research, Philippe Roussel-Galle, vice-president for training.

After an appeal by the Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University, the Conseil d'État annulled the part of the decree that established "University of Paris" as the name of the merged university on 29 December 2021.[13] The university was renamed to "Université Paris Cité" by decree in March 2022.[3]

Organization and administration

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Paris Cité University is a scientific, cultural and professional experimental public institution.[14] It is multidisciplinary and comprises four main areas of training: legal, economic and management disciplines; humanities and social sciences; science and technology; and health disciplines.

Campus

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Paris Cité University is located at 12 rue de l'École de Médecine, in the historic building of the École de Chirurgie (6th arrondissement of Paris).

It has two campuses:

Condorcet building, headquarters of the Department of Physics in the Great Mills campus.

Paris Cité University has 21 facilities in Paris on both campuses. Its headquarters are centred on the École de Chirurgie building, which was built in place of the Collège de Bourgogne, in the Quartier Latin, on the rue de l'École-de-Médecine. The teaching facilities and the research laboratories are housed in the Cordeliers Convent campus and the Saints-Pères building (the former Nouvelle Faculté de Médecine), as far as the medical school and the social sciences school are concerned, and in the Xavier-Bichat and Lariboisière Saint-Louis university campuses. The campus in Saint-Germain-des-Prés also houses the joint department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The odontology school is located in the Garancière university centre. The headquarters of the Department of Physics is in the Condorcet building, in The Great Mills of Paris university campus. This campus also contains Life Sciences, Mathematics, Geography, History and Social sciences and Letters, Art and Cinema departments.

The refurbished Henri-Piéron campus contains the school of psychology, whereas the law school is located in Malakoff. The dentistry school is located in Montrouge.

Admission

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The undergraduate program of Paris Cité University is selective, with an acceptance rate of 11% (for Descartes campuses only). Admission to the second year of the university's master programs is selective as well, some of these programs admitting only 1.7% of applicants which can represent 25 students by programs.

International conventions

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Paris Cité University has signed over 150 conventions with foreign universities across five continents, including Manchester, Warwick, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm or Ghent.[15]

Governance

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On 21 June 2019, Christine Clerici was elected president of Paris Cité University. On proposals, she appointed the following faculty councils: Alain Zider, dean of the Faculty of Science, Xavier Jeunemaitre, dean of the Faculty of Health and Sylvain Moutier, dean of the Faculty of Societies and Humanities.[16]

The Academic Senate of Université de Paris, meeting on 8 October 2019, elected Edouard Kaminski, vice-president for research, Philippe Roussel-Galle, vice-president for training and Emylie Lentzner, student vice-president.[17]

On 11 October 2019, the board of directors elected Clarisse Berthezène as vice-president and Alexandré Severin as manager of scholarship administrators.[citation needed]

The governance of Paris Cité University is ensured by a president, an executive board, and an Academic Senate that deliberate, by academic and technical bodies that give opinions and orientations.

The president is elected by the executive board for a four-year term, renewable once, from among teacher-researchers, researchers, professors or lecturers, associates or guests. The president is assisted by a vice-president of the executive board, a vice-president of research, a vice-president of education and a vice-president of student affairs.

The executive board comprises twenty-eight members: sixteen representatives elected by and from among the staff and students of Université de Paris and the IPGP, four ex officio members (chairman of the Board of Directors of the IPGP, chairman of the CNRS, chairman of Inserm, director general of Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris), and eight qualified personalities.

Rankings

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University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWU World[18]69 (2023)
CWUR World[19]42 (2022–2023)
CWTS World[20]115 (2022)
QS World[21]236 (2024)
THE World[22]=152 (2024)
USNWR Global[23]43 (2024-2025)

Notable people

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Nobel and Fields laureates

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Teachers and former teachers

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Nobel laureate George Fitzgerald Smoot, professor of the university
Azadeh Kian (2022) at the European Parliament

Alumni

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "L'Université de Paris officialise sa fusion". www.letudiant.fr (in French). 26 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  2. ^ Décret n° 2019-209 du 20 mars 2019 portant création de l'université de Paris et approbation de ses statuts, 20 March 2019, retrieved 15 November 2019
  3. ^ a b "Décret n° 2022-327 du 4 mars 2022 portant dénomination d'établissement public expérimental". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  4. ^ "QS World University Rankings for Medicine 2024". Top Universities. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  5. ^ a b Berstein, p. 229; loi no 68-978 du 12 novembre 1968.
  6. ^ Conac, p. 177.
  7. ^ Lagadic, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Marc-Olivier. "Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: Présentation". www.univ-paris1.fr.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Une histoire et un patrimoine qui traversent les siècles – Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas". www.u-paris2.fr.
  9. ^ "Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 – L'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3". www.univ-paris3.fr.
  10. ^ a b "Sorbonne: Histoire De La Sorbonne". Sorbonne (in French).
  11. ^ "Histoire de l'Université". www.parisdescartes.fr. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  12. ^ UPMC, Université Pierre et Marie Curie -. "De la faculté des sciences de l'université de Paris à l'UPMC".
  13. ^ Le Nevé, Par Soazig (30 December 2021). "L'Université de Paris sommée de changer de nom par le Conseil d'Etat". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  14. ^ Ordonnance n° 2018-1131 du 12 décembre 2018 relative à l'expérimentation de nouvelles formes de rapprochement, de regroupement ou de fusion des établissements d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche (in French), retrieved 15 November 2019
  15. ^ "Faculté de droit, d'Économie et de Gestion Université de Paris | Bienvenu sur le site de Faculté de droit, d'Économie et de Gestion Université de Paris".
  16. ^ "Christine Clerici nomme les doyens des facultés". Université de Paris (in French). 18 July 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  17. ^ "Élection des vice-président·e·s statutaires d'Université de Paris". Université de Paris (in French). 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  18. ^ "ARWU World".
  19. ^ "Center for World University Rankings 2022–2023". cwur.org.
  20. ^ "CWTS Leiden Ranking 2022". www.leidenranking.com.
  21. ^ "QS World University Rankings: Université Paris Cité". www.topuniversities.com.
  22. ^ "Times higher Education World University Rankings: Université Paris Cité". www.timeshighereducation.com. 4 October 2023.
  23. ^ "2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings". www.usnews.com.
  24. ^ "Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut".
  25. ^ "100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 22 November 2013.
  26. ^ Jaak Aaviksoo's CV
  27. ^ Claude Allègre's resume Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  28. ^ Jean-Luc Bennahmia's resume(in French)
  29. ^ "AUF - Le recteur". 14 November 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2008.
  30. ^ International Federation of Film Critics Archived 22 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ Vincent Courtillot CV Archived 17 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  32. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980". NobelPrize.org.
  33. ^ Luc Ferry's CV(in French)
  34. ^ Julia Kristeva CV(in French)
  35. ^ Élisabeth Roudinesco's CV
  36. ^ Jean-Michel Savéant CV Archived 26 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  37. ^ "Laurent Schwartz - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org.
  38. ^ Press release Archived 18 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine of the University Paris-Diderot (in French)
  39. ^ Article in French newspaper Le Monde by University president (in French)
  40. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006". NobelPrize.org.
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