Paris Descartes University (french: Université Paris 5 René Descartes, links=no), also known as Paris V, was a French

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located in

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. It was one of the inheritors of the historic

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, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Descartes completely merged with Paris Diderot University in 2019 to form a new Paris Cité University. It was established as a multidisciplinary university "of humanities and health sciences" ("''des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Santé''". It focused on the areas of medical sciences, biomedical sciences, law, computer science, social sciences, economics and psychology. Its main campus was in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

History

The historic

(french: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was divided into thirteen universities, managed by a common rectorate, the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, after the student protests of the French May.

Administration

Campus

Descartes University has ten campuses in Paris. Its headquarters are centered on the "Collège de chirurgie", which was built in place of the "Collège de Bourgogne", in the Quartier Latin, on the rue des Écoles. The teaching facilities and the research laboratories are housed in the Saints-Pères university center, as far as the medical school and the social sciences school are concerned. The refurbished Henri-Piéron center contains the school of psychology, whereas the Law school is located in Malakoff. The dentistry school is located in Montrouge.

Admission

The undergraduate program of Paris Descartes is selective, with an acceptance rate of 11%. 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

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

Research

Areas

The university focuses on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physics), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law (information technology law, business law, tax law, public law, private law...). The University Paris Descartes supports a modern approach of social sciences on the basis of fieldwork, participant observation and

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject ...

(Master's degree in cultural and social anthropology, at the School of humanities and social sciences - Sorbonne). The dual master's degree ("Economics and Psychology" and "Cogmaster") in partnership with other important French academic institutions such as Pantheon-Sorbonne University and the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

emphasizes opportunities offered as far as research is concerned.

Rankings

Paris Descartes was rated by the 2017 QS World University Ranking by Subject: *51–100th in

Pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

and Pharmacology (1st ex aequo in France), *151–200 in Biological Sciences (4th ex aequo in France), *121 in

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

(2nd in France), *251–300th in

Psychology Psychology is the science, scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immens ...

(2nd in France), *251–300th in

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

(3rd ex aequo in France) It was also rated by the 2016/17

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Subject Rankings as: *201–250 (4th ex aequo in France) in Medicine, *201–250 (1st in France) in Psychology. In Law, in 2016/17, it was not ranked among the top 10 of France of Eduniversal rankings.

Notable people

Faculty members

* Georges Balandier * Jean-Michel Berthelot * Erwan Dianteill * Erol Gelenbe * Axel Kahn * Michel Kazatchkine * Michel Maffesoli * Hervé Morin * Georges Vigarello

Alumni

Olivier Brandicourt Olivier Brandicourt (born 13 February 1956) is a French business executive and physician, and the former chief executive officer of Sanofi. Career Olivier Brandicourt studied medicine in Paris and specialized in infectious diseases and tropical ...

, physician and former CEO of Sanofi * Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, former president of Panthéon-Assas University *

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 Norma ...

, social and political theorist * François Fillon, former French Prime Minister *

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 communic ...

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

Nadey Hakim Nadey S. Hakim FASMBS (born 9 April 1958), is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London. He is also a writer, musician and sculptor, known for kidney a ...

, surgeon and Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine * Keuky Lim, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Khmer Republic *

Ramata Ly-Bakayoko Ramata Ly-Bakayoko (born 29 June 1955) is an Ivorian academic and government official. She served as Ivory Coast's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2016 to 2018. She was appointed Minister of Women, Families, and Children ...

, Ivorian Minister of Women, Families, and Children *

Sophie Postel-Vinay Sophie Postel-Vinay is a French physician and scientist at the Institut Gustave Roussy where she has led an ATIP-Avenir team since 2018. She works on oncology and the development of new drugs and is an expert in early clinical trials. She was the ...

, French physician and oncology researcher * Élizabeth Teissier, astrologist

Points of interest

* Jardin Botanique, Université Paris V * Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

Gallery

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References

External links

*
University web site

Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Sorbonne

Institut de Psychologie
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