Paris Dauphine University - PSL () is a Grande École and public institution of higher education and research based in

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of PSL University. As of 2022, Dauphine has 9,400 students in 8 fields of study (law, economics, finance, computer science, journalism, management, mathematics, social sciences), plus 3,800 in executive education. Its status as a , adopted in 2004, allows it to select its students. On average, 90 to 95% of accepted students received either high distinctions or the highest distinctions at their French High School National Exam results (Examen National du Baccalauréat). Dauphine is also a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. Research at Dauphine concerns "organization and decision sciences", organized in 6 research laboratories (5 of which are mixed units also staffed by

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researchers): the ''CEREMADE'' Center for Research in Decision Mathematics, the ''CR2D'' Dauphine Law Research Center, ''DRM'' Dauphine Management Research, the ''IRISSO'' Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Social Science, the ''LAMSADE'' Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Decision Support Systems, and the ''LEDa'' Dauphine Economics Laboratory. A total of 519 research staff work at Dauphine.

History

Dauphine was founded on 24 October 1968 as a university center with the status of a faculty, named ''Centre universitaire Dauphine''. On 17 December 1970, as part of the division of the ancient

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into 13 universities, it became an " établissement public à caractère scientifique et culturel", named ''Université Paris-IX Dauphine''. The university was established in the Palais Dauphine, also known as the Palais de l'OTAN ("

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Palace"), a building designed by

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and built at Porte Dauphine between 1955 and 1957 to serve as the

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. It served that function between 1959 and 1966, when France left the NATO military structure. Paris-IX Dauphine was designated as an "experimental university", and was one of the very few universities in France to select students on the basis of their

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scores. The legality of this was disputed, and some rejected students threatened lawsuits and were subsequently quietly admitted, a strategy that became increasingly popular by 2002. In response, in 2004, Dauphine ceased being a public university and became a under the name ''Université Paris-Dauphine,'' which legally allows it to practice selective admissions. In 2009, Université Paris-Dauphine gained

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( EFMD Quality Improvement System) accreditation, awarded by the

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. It is a founding member of the Executive DBA Council. In 2011, Université Paris-Dauphine was one of the 16 co-founders of

Paris Sciences et Lettres University PSL University (PSL or in French Université PSL, for Paris Sciences et Lettres) is a ''Grands établissements, Grand établissement'' based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a colle ...

(PSL). On 5 November 2019, PSL became formally established as a public university, organized in the form of a

collegiate university A collegiate university is a university where functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the Coll ...

(modelled after British collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge) allowing its constituent institutions to keep their legal personality. On the same date, Dauphine officially became a college of PSL. It now self-styles its name as ''Université Paris Dauphine - PSL''. NezUniversiteParisDauphine

International degree offers

Paris Dauphine University - PSL has a campus in

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offering bachelors and masters programs, and a campus in London offering courses in cooperation with

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. It offers joint degree programs with the Autonomous University of Madrid (in economics, management, and social sciences), and with

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in Frankfurt (in economic sciences).

Rankings

*2025: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked the 24th-best university in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings *2025: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 24th-best university in the world according to the QS World University Rankings *2024: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 19th-best university in the world according to the

Center for World University Rankings College and university rankings order higher education institutions based on various criteria, with factors differing depending on the specific ranking system. These rankings can be conducted at the national or international level, assessing inst ...

*2023: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked as the 3rd-best young university in the world according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings *2020: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 36th-best university in the world according to the Shanghai ranking

Alumni

Heads of state

Faure Gnassingbé Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé (; born 6 June 1966)"Biographie de nouveau pré ...

: President of

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* Raymond Ndong Sima: Prime Minister of

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* Boni Yayi: President of the Republic of

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Business leaders

* Thierry Bolloré: CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, former CEO of the Renault group * Yannick Bolloré: CEO of

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, chairman of the supervisory board of

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, Vice Chairman of Bolloré group *

Bruno Bonnell Bruno Bonnell (; born 6 October 1958) is a French businessman and politician who represented the 6th constituency of Rhône in the National Assembly from 2017 until his resignation in 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), he is a ...

: Chairman & founder of Infogrames, former CEO of

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* Michel Combes: CEO of SoftBank Group International ("SBGI"), former CEO of

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& former CEO of TDF * Olivier François: President and CEO of

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* Arnaud Lagardère: Chairman of groupe Lagardère and of the Board of Directors of

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Emmanuel Roman Emmanuel "Manny" Roman (born 27 August 1963) is a French financial executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and a managing director of PIMCO, one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers, based in Newport Beach, Cali ...

: CEO of

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* Régis Schultz: CEO of JD Sports * Jean-Michel Severino: CEO of the

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* Florent Menegaux: CEO of

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Economists and mathematicians

* Thierry Aimar: French economist, specialist of the

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of economics and

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* Jacques Attali: the first head of the EBRD *

Olivier Blanchard Olivier Jean Blanchard (; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist and professor. He is Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, an ...

: chief economist of the

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* Agnès Bénassy-Quéré: deputy governor of

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& chief economist at the Direction générale du Trésor * Nicolas Bouzou: French economist * Guillaume Carlier: French mathematician *

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 ...

: economist; recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014; author of ''The Theory of Corporate Finance'', Princeton University Press 2006 * Marion Laboure: economist, macro strategist * Bertrand Lemennicier: French economist * Mathilde Lemoine: group chief economist of Edmond de Rothschild * Pierre-Louis Lions: mathematician, Fields Medal in 1994 *

Cédric Villani Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he ...

: mathematician, awarded the

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in 2010

Politicians and administrators

Audrey Azoulay Audrey Azoulay (; born 4 August 1972) is a French Jew of Moroccan descent, French Civil Service, civil servant and politician who has served as the 11th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN ...

: civil servant, politician,

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Director-General * Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: French politician, deputy and president of Arise the Republic * Bintou Keita: UN Undersecretary General * Hervé Mariton: French politician, Deputy and former Minister * Hervé Novelli: French politician, Deputy and former Minister * Tiziano Peccia, international scholar ( IESEG School of Management, Université Paris Cité) and international manager

Others

* Alain Ehrenberg: sociologist * Marc Levy: author * Bernard Ramanantsoa: chairman of

HEC Paris HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...

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: author of ''Fooled by Randomness'' and ''The Black Swan'' * Philippe Verdier: radio and television journalist

Honorary degrees

* John Campbell: professor of economics at

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Ronald Fagin Ronald Fagin (born 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge. Biography Ron F ...

: computer scientist at

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* Eleanor M. Fox: professor at

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* Jim Gray: computer scientist and Turing award winner * Oliver Hart: professor of economics at Harvard University * Paul Joskow: professor at

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Ehud Kalai Ehud Kalai () is a prominent Israeli American game theorist and mathematical economist known for his contributions to the field of game theory and its interface with economics, social choice, computer science and operations research. He was the ...

: professor at

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known for the Kalai-Smorodinsky model *

Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been ...

: professor of management at

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* David Newbery: Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics,

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* Edmund Phelps: professor at

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and author of golden rule savings rate *

Myron Scholes Myron Samuel Scholes ( ; born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian– American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-ori ...

: economist and author of Black-Scholes model and Nobel prize *

Robert J. Shiller Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center fo ...

: professor of finance at

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and Nobel prize * Tom Snijders: professor at

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and at the

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* Herbert Spohn: professor at the

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Melchior Wathelet Melchior H. M. J. F. C. Wathelet (born 6 March 1949) is a Belgian politician and member of the Humanist Democratic Centre who served as 4th Minister-President of Wallonia. He has degrees in law and in economics (University of Liège) and is a ...

: Belgian politician * Adriana Lleras-Muney: professor of economics at

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Notes and references

External links

Official website
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