Savoy Mont Blanc University (french: Université Savoie Mont Blanc, a.k.a. Chambéry University) is a public university in the region of

Savoy Savoy (; frp, Savouè ; french: Savoie ) is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south. Savo ...

, with one campus in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed ...

and two around Chambéry.

Campuses

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 region, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study. The university has three campuses: * The Annecy-le-Vieux campus (near

) is the university's "technology institute" ( IUT), and teaches engineering-related subjects and business and administration related subjects. There is either the faculty of economics and management (IMUS, ''Institut de Management de l'Université de Savoie''). * Jacob-Bellecombette (1.5 km south of Chambéry) is the campus for students of languages, literature, social sciences, law and economics. It has a library, sports hall and one

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. Chambéry is the home of the university's ''presidence'' and administrative buildings. * The Technolac campus at Bourget-du-Lac (12 km north of Chambéry) teaches science.

History

* Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of

. The University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an ''école préparatoire'', a school preparing students to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and Turin took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563. * The

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of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an ''académie'' between 1860 and 1920, but not a university. * During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy ''Collège Scientifique Universitaire'' (CSU) was created, then a ''Collège Littéraire Universitaire'' (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the ''Centre Universitaire de Savoie'' (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the ''Institut Universitaire Technologique'' (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the ''Université de Savoie'' and then in May 2014 ''Université Savoie Mont Blanc''

Number of students

Foreign students

After Paris I, Pantheon-Assas University and Strasbourg III, Savoy has 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. *Europe 71% **United Kingdom 17% **Italy 10.5% **Germany 10% **Spain 8% **Sweden 5% *North America: 7% *Eastern Europe (''Pays d'Europe centrale, orientale et nouveaux États indépendants de l'ex-Union soviétique''): 5% *Asia: 6% *North Africa/Middle-East: 5% *Latin America: 2.5% *Africa: 2.5% *Australia/New Zealand: 1%

Gallery

Chambéry campus

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Annecy campus

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Departments

Annecy

* IUT d'Annecy] ** Département Techniques de Commercialisation ** Département Mesures Physiques ** Département Génie Mécanique et Productique ** Département Génie Électrique et Informatique Industrielle ** Département Réseaux et Télécoms * IAE Savoie Mont Blanc * Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Chambéry

* School of literature, languages and human sciences (LLSH) * School of law and business * IAE Savoie Mont Blanc

Bourget-du-Lac

* School of applied sciences * IUT de Chambéry * Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Notable people

Faculty

* Michel Soutif (1921 – 2016) - physicist and educator

Alumni

* Aicha Elbasri (born in Morocco) - writer and former United Nations official *

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(born 1955) - geophysicist and volcanologist from Indonesia * Ulla Tørnæs (born 1962, in Esbjerg) - Danish politician * Yang Lan (born 1968, Beijing) - media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host * Bruno Wu (born 1966) - Chinese entrepreneur *

Xavier Roseren Xavier Roseren (born 12 January 1970) is a French politician and shopkeeper who has served as a member of the French National Assembly for Haute-Savoie's 6th constituency from 2017 to 2024. He is affiliated with La République En Marche (LREM). ...

(born 1970, in Chamonix) - shopkeeper and politician LREM *

Yann Barthès Yann Romain Barthès (born 9 October 1974) is a French journalist, TV presenter and producer, best known for hosting the television programme ''Le Petit Journal (Canal+), Le Petit Journal'' and ''Quotidien''. Life and career Barthès first studie ...

(born 1974) - journalist, TV presenter and producer *

Émilie Bonnivard Émilie Bonnivard (born 2 August 1980) is a French politician who has represented the 3rd constituency of the Savoie department in the National Assembly since 2017. A member of The Republicans (LR), she has also been a member of the Regional C ...

(born 1980) politician LR * Léo Trespeuch (born 1987) - snowboarding champion *

Christophe Lemaitre Christophe Lemaitre (; born 11 June 1990) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has run a su ...

(born 1990) - sprinter *

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(born 1997) - alpine ski racer

Recipients of honorary degree

* Norberto Bobbio (1909 – 2004) - Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought * Fabiola Gianotti (born 1960) - Italian experimental particle physicist; first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

References

External links

Official homepage of the University of Savoy Mont Blanc
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