The University of Burgundy (french: Université de Bourgogne, uB; formerly known as ''Université de Dijon'') is a

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located in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

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. The University of Burgundy is situated on a large campus (more than 150 ha) in the eastern part of Dijon called Campus Montmuzard, about 15 minutes by tram from the city centre. The humanities and sciences are well represented on the main campus, along with law, medicine, and literature in separate buildings. The IUT (

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) is also on the campus, providing specialist higher level diplomas in business, biology, communications and computer science. The university counts 10 faculties, 4 engineering schools, 3 institutes of technology offering undergraduate courses, and 2 professional institutes providing post-graduate programmes. With numerous student societies and good support services for

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and disabled students, the campus is a welcoming place with numerous CROUS restaurants and canteens providing subsidised food and snacks.

Students

In 2018, the number of students was 30,917 divided into six areas, Dijon,

Auxerre Auxerre ( , ) is the capital of the Yonne department and the fourth-largest city in Burgundy. Auxerre's population today is about 35,000; the urban area (''aire d'attraction'') comprises roughly 113,000 inhabitants. Residents of Auxerre are r ...

Chalon-sur-Saône Chalon-sur-Saône (, literally ''Chalon on Saône'') is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; h ...

Le Creusot Le Creusot () is a Communes of France, commune and industrial town in the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department, Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerl ...

Mâcon Mâcon (), historically anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the prefecture of the department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home to near 34,000 residents, who are referred to in French as M� ...

and

Nevers Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the principal city of the ...

. The territorial areas (Dijon excepted) receive about 89% of the total of students. There are about 2 783 foreign students in 2018. 66% of the students are from Burgundy. The CIEF (Centre International d'Études Françaises) allows students at all proficiency levels to immerse themselves in French language classes.

Points of interest

* Serres de l'Université de Bourgogne

Notable faculty

Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and '' epi ...

, French philosopher *

Louis Bachelier Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier (; 11 March 1870 – 28 April 1946) was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part ...

, French mathematician * Pietro Balestra, economist * Doug Beardsley, poet *

Gaspard Auguste Brullé Gaspard Auguste Brullé (7 April, 1809 – 21 January, 1873) was a French entomologist. Passionate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste ...

, French entomologist * Roland Carraz, former member of the

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and former Secretary of state *

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...

, French historian *

Robert M. French Robert M. French is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is currently at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he worked with Douglas Hofstadter on t ...

, French Cognitive scientist *

Robert Folz Robert Folz (12 March 1910 – 5 March 1996) was a French medievalist and specialist on the Carolingian era. Born in Metz, Folz spent his academic career at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Professor of history from 1947, he headed the his ...

, French historian,

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, former

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, Economist, historian, geographer *

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, French historian (Professor from 1919 to 1926) * Bernard de Montmorillon, French economist, Former Dean at the Paris IX university (Dauphine) *

Louis Renault (jurist) Louis Renault (21 May 1843 – 8 February 1918) was a French jurist and educator, and the co-winner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Renault was born at Autun. From 1868 to 1873, Renault was professor of Roman ...

(lecturer at this university, later

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Laureate) *

Jean Richard (historian) Jean Barthélémy Richard (7 February 1921 – 25 January 2021) was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Rich ...

, historian, member of the

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, President of the

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since 2002 * Albert Schatz, jurist, historian * Bernard Schmitt, economist, founder of the school of economic thought known as

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* Aurélie Trouvé, President of

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France

Notable alumni

* Mohammed A. Aldouri, former Permanent Representative of

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to the

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(2001–2003) *

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, Former President of Czechoslovakia * Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, French Television presenters, known for the

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jurist, president of the

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, American author *

Antanas Mockus Aurelijus Rūtenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas (; born 25 March 1952) is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. He has a master's degree in philosophy from the National University of Colombia, and a Honoris Causa PhD from the U ...

, Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician *

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, Member of the European Parliament, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice *

Mahmoud El Materi Mahmoud El Materi (December 1897 – December 13, 1972) was a Tunisian physician and politician. He was the first president and one of the founders of the Neo Destour. Biography Early life In his private journals, Mahmoud El Materi mentions ...

, Former Minister (Tunisia) *

Jacques Fradin Jacques Fradin (born 1954 in France) is a physician and cognitive and behavioural therapist (member of the French Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy). He is working on developing a neuroscientific approach of the cognitive and beh ...

, Medical Doctor, cognitive and behavioural therapist *

Pierre Frogier Pierre Frogier (born 16 November 1950, Nouméa, New Caledonia) is a French politician, who was President of the Government of New Caledonia from 2001 to 2004. He has been French senator for New Caledonia since 2011, and was member of the Nati ...

, Politician, former President of the Government of

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, Member of

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Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson (born 4 May 1949) is a Togolese entomologist who is Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lomé. She is the chair of UNESCO's "Women, Science and Sustainable Water Management in West Africa and Central Af ...

, Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lome *

Léopold Gnininvi Léopold Messan Kokou Gnininvi (born December 19, 1942
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politician, Secretary-General of the

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Roger Guillemin Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924) is a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year ...

, French National medal of Science in 1976,

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for

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in 1977 *

Lawrence Gushee Lawrence Arthur "Larry" Gushee (February 25, 1931 – January 6, 2015) was an American musicologist, who specialized in medieval music and early jazz. He was born in Ridley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College, ...

, American

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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani ( fa, محمدعلی جمالزاده اصفهانی; 13 January 1892 in Isfahan, Iran – 8 November 1997 in Geneva, Switzerland) was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known f ...

, prominent

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ian writer *

Joseph Jacotot Joseph (or Jean-Joseph) Jacotot (4 March 177030 July 1840) was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation." Life Jacotot was born at Dijon on 4 March 1770. He was educated at the universi ...

, philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation" *

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, politician, former Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony * Henri Jayer, French

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(2015–present) *

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, American author and poet *

Faik Konitza Faik Bey Konica (later named ''Faïk Dominik Konitza'', 15 March 1875 – 15 December 1942) was an important figure in Albanian language and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his litera ...

, Albanian politician, stylist, critic. *

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent Fr ...

, French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist *

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, Usher of the Black Rod for the Canadian Senate *

Arnaud Montebourg Arnaud Montebourg (; born 30 October 1962) is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who served as the Minister of Industrial Renewal from 2012 to 2014,French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

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, literary critic, bibliographer and author * Carol Remond, award-winning journalist (Dow Jones Newswires), publisher of the Wall Street Journal. * Aurélie Trouvé ( fr), President of

France *

Pierre Viette Pierre E. L. Viette (29 June 1921 – 30 April 2011) was a French entomologist. He attended university in Dijon during the German occupation of France in World War II and subsequently spent his entire career at the Muséum national d'Histoire natur ...

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, deputy director of

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* Doina Bobeica, florist * Maxime Touffet, director of Renon Inc. *

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, British politician * Robin Deiana, TV personality, breakdancer and model who lives and performs in South Korea; current cast member in the talk show Non-Summit * Paul Bosc, chairman and founder of Château Des Charmes, recipient of the Order of Canada

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