Paris Cité University (french: links=no, Université Paris Cité) is a

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located in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 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), ma ...

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. 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

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in 1970. It was originally established as the University of Paris (french: links=no, Université de Paris), but was renamed by decree in March 2022 to its current name. The

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was integrated as a component institution. The University headquarter is at the heart of Paris, in the 6th arrondissement at boulevard Saint-Germain. Among the best universities worldwide, in 2021 it was ranked 14th among young universities according to the ''

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'', and 65th according to the

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History

1970: Division of the University of Paris

Following the disruption, de Gaulle appointed

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by Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University; law by Paris-II Panthéon-Assas University;

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

by Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle and Paris-IV Sorbonne University; science by Paris-V Descartes University, Paris-VI Pierre and Marie Curie University and Paris-XI Orsay University. The thirteen successor universities to the University of Paris are now split over the three academies of the

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region.

2000: University of Paris reunification projects

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

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

, 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. The university was renamed to "Université Paris Cité" by decree in March 2022.

Organization and administration

Paris Cité University is a scientific, cultural and professional experimental public institution. It is

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and comprises four main areas of training: legal, economic and management disciplines;

and

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

s; science and technology; and health disciplines.

Campus

Paris Cité University is located at 12 rue de l'École de Médecine (

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). It has two campuses: * The Grands-Moulins university campus in the 13th arrondissement of Paris with the École d'ingénieurs Denis-Diderot engineering department ; * The

Saint-Germain-des-Prés Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the no ...

university campus in the 6th arrondissement. Paris7_condorcet

Paris Cité University has 21 facilities in Paris on both campuses. Its headquarters are centered on the "Faculté de Médecine" or "Collège de Chirurgie", which was built in place of the "Collège de Bourgogne", in the

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, on the rue de l'École-de-Médecine. The teaching facilities and the research laboratories are housed in the Saints-Pères university center, as far as the medical school and the

s school are concerned, and in the Xavier-Bichat and Lariboisière Saint-Louis university centers. The campus in Saint-Germain-des-Prés also houses the joint department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The

odontology Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions o ...

school is located in the Garancière university center. The headquarters of the Department of Physics is in the Condorcet building, in Paris-Rive-Gauche

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. This campus also contains Life Sciences, Mathematics, Geography, History and Social sciences and Letters, Art and Cinema departments. The refurbished Henri-Piéron center contains the school of

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

, whereas the Law school is located in

Malakoff Malakoff () is a suburban commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department southwest of Paris, France. Located from the centre of the city, it had a population of 30,286 in 2016. The European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) is base ...

. The dentistry school is located in

Montrouge Montrouge () is a commune in the southern Parisian suburbs, located from the centre of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe. After a long period of decline, the population has increased again in recent years. ...

Admission

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

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.

Governance

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. 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. On 11 October 2019, the Board of Directors elected Clarisse Berthezène as vice-president. 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

Notable people

Nobel and Fields laureates

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– Professor – Nobel in Physics – 2006 *

Jean Dausset Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell fo ...

– Professor – Nobel in Physiology or Medicine – 1980 * Artur Avila – Professor – Fields Medal – 2014 *

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in ...

– Professor – Fields Medal – 1950

Teachers and former teachers

* Alain Carpentier, French surgeon, Albert-Lasker Award. *

Axel Kahn Axel Kahn (5 September 1944 – 6 July 2021) was a French scientist and geneticist. He was the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn and the chemist Olivier Kahn. He was a member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee ...

, French scientist and

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. * Daniel Mansuy, French researcher and

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, member of the French Academy of Sciences. *

Jaak Aaviksoo Jaak Aaviksoo (born 11 January 1954) is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). Aaviksoo has been the Estonian Minister of Defence and Minister of Educa ...

, Estonian Minister of Defense *

Claude Allègre Claude Allègre (; born 31 March 1937) is a French politician and scientist. Scientific work The main scientific area of Claude Allègre was geochemistry. Allègre co-authored an ''Introduction to geochemistry'' in 1974. Since the 1980s, he ...

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from 1997 to 2000 and member of the Académie des sciences (France) * Artur Avila, 2014 Fields Medal * Jean-Luc Bennahmias, French Member of the

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* Bernard Cerquiglini,

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of the

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Michel Ciment Michel Ciment (; born 26 May 1938 in Paris) is a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine '' Positif''. Ciment is a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, a ...

, French journalist, writer and president of FIPRESCI *

Vincent Courtillot Vincent E. Courtillot (born 6 March 1948) is an emeritus French geophysicist, prominent among the researchers who are critical of the hypothesis that impact events are a primary cause of mass extinction of life forms on the Earth. He is known for ...

, geophysicist, member of the Académie des sciences (France) *

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1980 *

Luc Ferry Luc Ferry (; born 3 January 1951) is a French philosopher and politician, and a proponent of secular humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. Biography He received an Agrégation de philosophie (1975), a D ...

, French Minister of National Education from 2002 to 2004 *

Erol Gelenbe Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician who pioneered the field of Computer System and Network Performance in Europe, and is active ...

, Professor at Univ. Paris-Descartes (1986-2005), Computer Scientist, Electronic Engineer, and Applied Mathematician, Fellow of the

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, of the

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, of

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, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the

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, and other Academies, Mustafa Prize in 2017. * Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, sociologist and feminist * Thierry Morand, French biocontainment expert and entrepreneur. *

Élisabeth Roudinesco Élisabeth Roudinesco ( ro , Rudinescu; born 10 September 1944) is a French historian and psychoanalyst, affiliated researcher in history at Paris Diderot University, in the group « Identités-Cultures-Territoires ». She also conducts a seminar ...

, French historian and psychoanalyst * Jean-Michel Savéant, member of the Académie des sciences (France) *

, 1950 Fields Medal, * Azadeh Kian,

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- French Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies * Justin E. H. Smith, Author and professor of history and philosophy of science *

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2006 for the discovery of anisotropies in the

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* Stefano Zacchiroli, Former Debian Project Leader. *

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.Herbert Wilf, Dominique Foata, ''et al.' ...

, French Mathematician

Alumni

* Cécile Duflot, French former politician. She has been a government minister and political party leader. * Olivier Brandicourt, French business executive and physician, and the former chief executive officer of

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. *

Richard Ferrand Richard Ferrand (; born 1 July 1962) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as President of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022. He had served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère's 6th const ...

, French politician who has been serving as President of the National Assembly since 2018. * Jean Pisani-Ferry, French economist and public policy expert. *

François Fillon François Charles Armand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans (previously known as the Union ...

, retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. * Delphine Batho, French politician, member of the French National Assembly and former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. * Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun, Algerian sociologist and researcher who serves in the government of

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as Minister of National Education. * Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, former president of Panthéon-Assas University. * Sibeth Ndiaye, French-Senegalese communications advisor and former French Government Spokeswoman. * Freda Nkirote, Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and President of the Pan-African Archaeological Association. *

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, surgeon and Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine. *

Jon Elster Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD in social science from the École Normale Su ...

, social and political theorist. *

Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec (born 1949) is a French semiotician. She is professor emeritus of communication studies, specializing in the fields of anthropology of communication and the analysis of the non-verbal dimension of interpersonal communi ...

, founder of the e. laboratory on Human Trace Complex System Unesco. *

Laurent Gbagbo Koudou Laurent Gbagbo
, FPI website . ( President of Côte d'Ivoire. * Jérôme Chartier, French member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017. * Guillaume Chiche, French member of the French National Assembly. * Keuky Lim, former

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of the Khmer Republic. *

Élizabeth Teissier Élizabeth Teissier, née Germaine Élizabeth Hanselmann (born 6 January 1938) is a French astrologer and former model and actress. Between 1975 and 1976, she created a daily horoscope on French television channel Antenne 2, and in 1981, she lau ...

, astrologist. * Jérôme Salomon, French infectious diseases physician and French '' Directeur général de la Santé'' since 2018.

References

External links

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