Cergy-Pontoise University (French: ''Université de Cergy-Pontoise'') was a French university, located in
Cergy-Pontoise
Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population ...
, France. On 1 January 2020, the university merged with the
International School of Information Processing Sciences (EISTI) and the
University of Paris-Seine to form
CY Cergy Paris University
CY Cergy Paris University (French: ''CY Cergy Paris Université'') is a public university located in Cergy-Pontoise, France. It was officially announced in October 2019 by the ''décret'' that the university would be founded by combining othe ...
.
Cergy-Pontoise
Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population ...
University is a public university and a leading centre of teaching and research, which welcomes 18,000 students and 1,500 international students interested in studying abroad.
The university is located in the west of Paris (30 km from central
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
), in the
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the ÃŽle-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.[< ...]
department.
The university also managed the
Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye or Sciences Po Saint-Germain, is a French political science grande école situated on Saint-Germain-en-Laye, close to Paris and is attached to the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Uni ...
(in cooperation with the
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University).
Faculties
The university offers all levels of graduate and post-graduate studies. 144 bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees are available in a wide range of fields :
law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vari ...
,
economy
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with t ...
and
management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business.
Management includes the activities ...
,
languages
Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...
,
literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to inclu ...
and
social sciences
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...
, and
science and technology.
A specialty is a German-French course of law studies organized together with the
University of Düsseldorf
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...
which annually gives 15 German and 15 French law students the possibility to study both legal systems since 2005. Graduates of this three year law course are awarded the German legal ''"Zwischenprüfung"'' (German
LL.B. equivalent) as well as the French ''"licence mention droit"'' (French
LL.B. equivalent). Since 2008, the universities offer a subsequent two-year course whose participants specialize in business, labor as well as employment law and graduate with the French ''"Master 2 mention droit de l'entreprise"'' (French
J.D. equivalent). Subsequently, they are also eligible for the German state examination in law (German
J.D. equivalent) and for an admission exam with a French attorney's law school (École de formation de barreau - EFB).
''Voraussetzungen für die École de formation de barreau''
École de formation de barreau, retrieved 22 October 2017.
Research pole
The Cergy-Pontoise University as well as all upper education institutions of Cergy-Pontoise are organized in a PRES (Research and Upper Education Pole) including :
* CY Tech
CY Tech, formerly EISTI (''École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information''), is a French graduate engineering school created in 1983.
It is located across three campuses (Cergy, Pau, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) and specialises i ...
, formerly EISTI,
* groupe ESSEC
The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (more commonly ESSEC Business School or ESSEC) is a major French business and management school, with non-profit association status (French association law of 1901) founded in 190 ...
,
* ENSEA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications
* ITIN, Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Réseaux et Systèmes d'Information
* ENSAPC, École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise
* EBI (École de Biologie Industrielle)
* EPMI ( École d'électricité, de Production et des Méthodes Industrielles)
* EPSS (École Pratique de Service Social)
* ESCOM (École supérieure de chimie organique et minérale)
* ILEPS (Institut Libre d'Éducation Physique Supérieur)
* ISTOM (Institut Supérieur d'agro-développement)
* ESCIA, école supérieure de comptabilité, gestion et finance
See also
* Education in France
Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. It is divided into the three stages of primary education (''enseignement primaire''), secondary education (''enseignement secondaire''), and higher educatio ...
* List of public universities in France by academy
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 p ...
References
External links
Web site of the Cergy-Pontoise University (French)
Web site of Professional Bachelor's degree in International Trade and International Tourism (Cergy-Pontoise University)
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Educational institutions established in 1991
Education in Cergy-Pontoise
Universities in ÃŽle-de-France
1991 establishments in France