Toulouse Capitole University (, ) is a

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Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

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. It is one of the three universities of the city of Toulouse, in southwestern France. The university, presided by Hugues Kenfack, focuses on social sciences, law, political science, economics and administration. An active member of the federal

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, it became an experimental public institution on January 1, 2023.

History

Toulouse Capitole University is one of the several so-called 'successor' institutions of the

, which was the second university created in

in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200). The university originally included four faculties: theology, canon law, civil law and Arts (grammar). The medical school was created in 1257. The University was closed in 1793 as the French Revolution abolished royal universities. At the end of the Second Empire, the first four faculties co-existed, but the most important was the law school, which contained three-quarters of the students and the most renowned teachers. However, the Faculties of Toulouse suffered due to underfunding of French higher education in the provinces. At the same time, freedom of higher education was proclaimed in France, leading to the founding in

1877 Events January * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876: Batt ...

of the Catholic University of Toulouse, a private not-for-profit institution recognised as being in the public interest. In the 1880s Luis Liard and

Ernest Lavisse Ernest Lavisse (; 17 December 184218 August 1922) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Lavisse is also known for being one of the main creator of the ''roman national'' ("National myth", lit. "nat ...

gave enough autonomy to the faculties so the municipality could help those State Faculties, which were named the University of Toulouse in

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.
In 1902, Marguerite Dilhan, first woman to practice law and to plead before a criminal court in France, obtained her diploma i
Law
Yet the

Edgar Faure Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Toulouse 1 Capitole educates more than 20,000 students every year, over 15% of which are international students. Students may enroll in a Bachelors program directly after obtaining a ''

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'', or the equivalent high school diploma for international students. Unlike the French ''

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'', public university education is open enrollment, tuition is often more affordable, and registration does not require attendance at a post-high school preparatory school (). Degrees from French universities are recognized world-wide and awarded by the

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(). Since 2020, the University of Toulouse I Capitole is a member of the European Universit
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which aims to provide citizens and students with the necessary skills to meet the major societal challenges already underway (migration, aging population, digital transformation...). The aim of this project is to pool the skills and expertise of the different partners in order to provide high quality education, common curricula and increased student mobility, as well as a European research network. The consortium of this project is composed of six other universities:

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(Germany), Luiss Guido Carli (Italy), NHH

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(Norway),

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(Netherlands),

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(Bulgaria), and

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(Austria). The institution's academic priorities focus on three areas: international degrees, double-language degrees, and degrees with a high potential for professional integration. The different academic disciplines of UT1 are:

Faculties

*Economics ( Toulouse School of Economics) *Business Administration and Management ( Toulouse School of Management) *Law and Political Science *Administration and Communication *Informatics *Technology ( University Institutes of Technology)

Departments

*Physical and Sports Activities (DAPS) *Mathematics *Department of Languages and Cultures (DLC) *Institute of Judicial Studies *European School of Law

Instruction in English

The University offers a number of degree programs in management, economic, law, and technology taught in English-only. Higher education degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the ''Licence'' /

Bachelor's A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ( ...

Master's A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

, and

Doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

degrees. A Bachelor's degree requires the completion of 180 ECTS credits; a Master's, requires an additional 120 ECTS credits.Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. ''Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States'' (2nd ed. 2017). In 2022, annual tuition for a Bachelors degree taught in English-only was: €262 (US$) for students from anywhere in the world. *Global Management (Bachelors) *International Management (Master's) *Finance (Master's) *International Marketing of Innovation (Master's, double degree) *Econometrics and Empirical Economics (Master's) *Economics of Markets and Organizations (Master's) *Economics & Ecology (Master's) *Environmental and Natural Resources Economics (Master's) *Public Policy and Development (Master's) *Data Science for Social Sciences (Master's) *Mathematics and Economic Decision (Master's) *MIAGE on Innovative Information Systems (Master's) *International Aviation Law (LL.M.) *Comparative & European Private International Law (Master's) *International Economic Law (Master's) *Economics (Ph.D.) *Management (Ph.D.) (partnership with the ''Grande ėcole'' Toulouse Business School)

Research

The University of Toulouse I Capitole and Toulouse School of Economics professor

Jean Tirole Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focus ...

became a

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...

in 2014. The internationalization of research is the other facet of the University's European and international strategy. The research centers are involved in numerous projects and scientific cooperation networks with foreign partners, particularly Canadian and Japanese. The University Toulouse Capitole is the home of many laboratoires and research instituts: * ''Centre de droit des affaires'' - Center for business law * ''Centre toulousain d'histoire du droit et des idées politiques'' - Center for history and political science * ''Institut de droit privé'' - Institute for private law * ''Institut de mathématique de Toulouse'' - Institute of mathematics * '' Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse'' - Institute of research into information technology * ''Institut des études juridiques de l'urbanisme et de la construction'' - Institute for state law in urbanism * ''Institut du droit de l'espace, des territoires et de la communication'' - Institute for Space, Territories, Culture and Communications Law * ''Institut Maurice Hauriou'' - Institute for public law * Institute of Research on European, International and Comparative Law * ''Laboratoire des sciences sociales du politique'' - Laboratory of social science politics * Laboratory of Studies and Research on Economics, Policies and Social Systems * TSE-R is under tutelage of the CNRS (UMR 5314), the INRAE (UMR 1415), the EHESS, and the University Toulouse 1 Capitole. * Toulouse School of Management Research *SIRIUS Chair - Space, Business, and Law - a public-private partnership between the Grande école Toulouse Business School,

CNES CNES () is the French national space agency. Headquartered in central Paris, the agency is overseen by the ministries of the Armed Forces, Economy and Finance and Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It operates from the Toulouse Spac ...

Airbus Airbus SE ( ; ; ; ) is a Pan-European aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate Airbus Defence and Space, defence and space and Airbus Helicopters, he ...

Defense & Space and

Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space () is a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo (company), Leonardo (33%). The company is headquartered in Cannes, France. It provides space-based ...

, dedicated to the law and management of space sector activities.

Location

UT Capitole is located on four sites in the city center and in the cities of Montauban and Rodez. University buildings cover an area of 78,000 m² and are available to 17,000 students. On the two sites of the ''Arsenal'' and the ''Anciennes Facultés'', a 2 minutes' walk from

Place du Capitole The Capitole de Toulouse (; ), commonly known as the ''Capitole'', is the heart of the municipal administration and the city hall of the France, French city of Toulouse. It was designated a ''monument historique'' by the French government in 1840 ...

, are located most lecture halls and classrooms as well as the main library on the Toulouse campus. In the city center, there are the Anciennes Facultés where the Toulouse School of Management is located, as well as amphitheaters and two libraries (the Garrigou library in the Anciennes Facultés and the Godechot library in the IEP). The Anciennes Facultés are located at 2, rue Albert-Lautmann. Also in the city center, the Arsenal, where the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the European School of Law are located, and most of the amphitheaters and classrooms, as well as the university's administrative services. This site also includes the Arsenal library, the university's main library. The Arsenal is located at 2, rue du Doyen-Gabriel-Marty. The campus also houses the Arsenal university restaurant as well as student residences. Also in the center of Toulouse, the ''Manufacture des Tabacs'', between the

Garonne The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ; or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux � ...

river and the Brienne canal is where most research and library centres are to be found. The Manufacture is located at 21, allée de Brienne and is situated on the other side of the Brienne canal from the two previously mentioned sites. Two satellite campuses of the University Toulouse Capitole are located in Montauban and Rodez. In the city of

Montauban Montauban (, ; ) is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated of Oc ...

, the University Center of Tarn-et-Garonne is located on Boulevard Montauriol, near the city center. The University of Toulouse 1 Capitole offers the full undergraduate degree in law at this site. There is a library and a university restaurant on the campus. The University Institute of Technology of Rodez (IUT) is located at 50 avenue de Bordeaux in

Rodez Rodez (, , ; , ) is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse. It is the prefecture of the department of Aveyron, region of Occitania (formerly Midi-Pyrénées). Rodez is the seat of the communau ...

, Aveyron. The IUT provides a 3-year university education, offering several Bachelor of Technology (BUT) or undergraduate degrees (''Licences'' - 3rd year), and emphasizing a technological approach combining theory and practice. The IUT has modern premises and equipment: 1 documentation center, 1 amphitheater, 1 technology hall, 2 learning labs, and 2 multimedia laboratories.

Partnerships

Toulouse Capitole University is a founding member of the

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (, , UFTMP) is the association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE) for institutions of higher education and research in the French region of Midi-Pyrénées (now called Occitania ...

(), the

association of universities and higher education institutions In France, Communautés d’Universités et Établissements (COMUEs; Communities of universities and institutions) are groups of universities and higher education institutions. A COMUE is a form of Établissement Public à caractère Scientifique, ...

(ComUE), which is reconstituting the collective Université de Toulouse. Membership includes all large campuses in Toulouse:

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; ), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibi ...

Paul Sabatier University Paul Sabatier University (''Université Paul Sabatier'' , UPS, also known as Toulouse III) was a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse. It was one of the several successor universities of the University of Toulouse, established in 1229, m ...

, Sciences Po Toulouse,

INSA Toulouse The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a non-profit, nonpartisan 501(c)(6) professional organization based in Arlington, Virginia for the public and private sector members of the United States Intelligence Community. History ...

, ISAE-SUPAERO, as well as the Grande école Toulouse Business School and the 7 Grandes écoles of the

National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (, ; abbr. Toulouse INP) is a French university cluster based in Toulouse, France, part of the University of Toulouse. It was founded in 1969. The institute is composed of seven schools (six engineering ...

. The university and Toulouse Business School (TBS) jointly award a EFMD-Accredited Ph.D. in management, faculty and students have access to the TBS Research Centre, and TBS research faculty serve on the board of directors. As a collective higher education structure, the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées is the fourth largest in France with over 130,000 students, faculty, and staff.
Toulouse Capitole University is also associated with the Catholic University of Toulouse, particularly for legal studies.

Libraries and Learning Centers

The University of Toulouse I Capitole Library is the heir to the former university library created in 1879. Initially an inter-university library, its social sciences section was constituted as a Collective Service of Documentation in 1995. It is now made up of four libraries spread across the university campus. The Arsenal library, representative of the modern architectural movement (Brutalism), was built in 1972 by the architects Paul de Noyers and Noël Le Maresquier. It offers 900 reading places. In addition to the 45,000 volumes belonging to the prestigious old collection (end of the 19th century - middle of the 20th century) and the volumes inherited from the Law-Literature section, the collections are now specialized in the disciplines taught at the university. In 1996, a 450-seat library was installed in the renovated premises of the former Toulouse Tobacco Factory, which is now listed as a historical monument. Two other libraries make up Toulouse 1 Capitole's library facilities: the Garrigou library located in the heart of the historic building of the old Faculties and the Boutaric library. These libraries collaborate with the documentation centers of the university's teaching and research units. In terms of written and documentary heritage, 320,000 e-books complete a collection of 568,000 printed works, 57,000 theses and dissertations. Over 80,500 online journals are added to the 390 print journal subscriptions; while some 75 specialized databases allow for in-depth bibliographic research.

Doctorat ''honoris causa''

Since the founding of today's Université Toulouse Capitole, countless professors, deans, directors, presidents of faculties, institutes, universities and regions, advisors and ministers have been awarded honorary doctorates by the university
see the complete list
. This was notably the case for José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's former socialist prime minister, honored in 2015. The same year, Vassilios Skouris, then President of the European Court of Justice, also received the title. After the DHC awarded on June 9, 2023 to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, the German Judge of the Constitutional Court, Dieter Grimm was awarded a DHC on November 28, 2024.

Notable alumni

Vincent Auriol Vincent Jules Auriol (; 27 August 1884 – 1 January 1966) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1947 to 1954. Early life and politics Auriol was born in Revel, Haute-Garonne, as the only child of Jacques Antoine Aurio ...

- President of the République (1947-1954) under the IV^e Republique. * Marguerite Dilhan - First woman in France to open her own law firm and to plead at the cour d'assises, at a time when women were not yet allowed to vote. *

Jaume Bartumeu Jaume Bartumeu Cassany, GCIH (; born 10 November 1954) is an Andorran lawyer and politician, who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 2009 to 2011. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party (PS) in June 2000, in which he hel ...

- Former

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- Afghan politician and former Minister of Planning of Afghanistan *

Jean-Pierre Bel Jean-Pierre Bel (born 30 December 1951) is a French retired politician who served as President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014 (the sole non-right-wing in the Fifth Republic). From the Ariège department, Bel is a member of the Socialist Party ...

- Former President of the

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* Bertrand Delanoë - Former

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- President of the Regional Council of Occitanie * Marlène Dolveck - Executive Vice President at

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, former CEO of

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Gares & Connexions * Richard Ferrand - Former President of the

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* Philippe Folliot - French senator * Mamadou Philippe Karambiri - Burkinabé evangelical pastor and founder of the International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission * Jean Laffitte - Prelate of the

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, former Secretary of the

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Jean-Luc Moudenc Jean-Luc Moudenc (; ; born 19 July 1960) is a French politician serving as List of mayors of Toulouse, Mayor of Toulouse since 2014, previously holding the office from 2004 to 2008. A member of The Republicans (France), The Republicans, he was d ...

- Mayor of Toulouse * Hélène Parisot - French professional

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* Sylvia Pinel - Former Minister of Housing, French politician *

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- French politician *

Gilbert Saboya Sunyé Gilbert Saboya Sunyé (born 28 July 1966) is an Andorran economist and politician. He was the Ministry of External Affairs (Andorra), minister of Foreign Affairs to the Principality of Andorra from 2011 to 2017. Previously, he was the president o ...

- Andorran politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra * Christine de Veyrac - French politician *

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- Greek politician

References

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