Université Savoie Mont Blanc (, a.k.a. USMB) is a

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in the

Haute-Savoie Haute-Savoie () is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Gene ...

and

Savoie Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France. Located in the French Alps, its prefecture is Chambéry. In 2019, Savoie had a population o ...

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, with one campus in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, regi ...

and two near

Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the southeastern ...

Campuses

The university was officially founded in 1979 from several colleges founded in the 1960s and 1970s. To avoid a straight choice between the two biggest towns of the Savoie/Haute-Savoie departments, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study. The university has three campuses: * The Annecy campus is the university's "technology institute" ( IUT), and teaches

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-related subjects and business and administration related subjects. Here is located the faculty of economics and management (IMUS, ''Institut de Management de l'Université de Savoie''). * Jacob-Bellecombette (1.5 km south of Chambéry) is the campus for students of

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and

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. It has a

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and one

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. * The Technolac campus at Bourget-du-Lac (12 km north of Chambéry) teaches

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. In addition, the university's ''presidence'' and administrative buildings are located in Chambéry.

History

* Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of

Savoy Savoy (; )  is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Vall ...

. The

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an ''école préparatoire'', a school preparing students to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and

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took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563. * The

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of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an ''académie'' between 1860 and 1920, but not a university. * During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy ''Collège Scientifique Universitaire'' (CSU) was created, then a ''Collège Littéraire Universitaire'' (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the ''Centre Universitaire de Savoie'' (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the ''Institut Universitaire Technologique'' (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the ''Université de Savoie'' and then in May 2014 ''Université Savoie Mont Blanc''

Foreign students

After

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, Pantheon-Assas University and Strasbourg III, Savoy has the fourth-highest number of

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...

exchange students in France. The school of international relations has signed 228 conventions with universities in 82 countries, and the university takes more than 1,000 foreign students per year overall. * Europe 71% ** United Kingdom 17% ** Italy 10.5% ** Germany 10% ** Spain 8% ** Sweden 5% * North America: 7% * Eastern Europe (''Pays d'Europe centrale, orientale et nouveaux États indépendants de l'ex-Union soviétique''): 5% * Asia: 6% * North Africa/Middle-East: 5% * Latin America: 2.5% * Africa: 2.5% * Australia/New Zealand: 1%

Gallery

Chambéry campus

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Annecy campus

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Departments

Annecy

* IUT d'Annecy ** Département Techniques de Commercialisation ** Département Mesures Physiques ** Département Génie Mécanique et Productique ** Département Génie Électrique et Informatique Industrielle ** Département Réseaux et Télécoms * IAE Savoie Mont Blanc * Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Jacob-Bellecombette

* School of literature, languages and human sciences (LLSH) * School of law and business * IAE Savoie Mont Blanc

Bourget-du-Lac

* School of applied sciences * IUT de Chambéry * Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Notable people

Faculty

* Michel Soutif (1921 – 2016) - physicist and educator

Alumni

* Aicha Elbasri (born in

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) - writer and former United Nations official * Surano (born 1955) - geophysicist and volcanologist from

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Ulla Tørnæs Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs (born 4 September 1962 in Esbjerg) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014, and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 ...

(born 1962, in

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) - Danish politician * Yang Lan (born 1968,

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) - media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host * Bruno Wu (born 1966) - Chinese entrepreneur * Xavier Roseren (born 1970, in

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) - shopkeeper and politician

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Yann Barthès Yann Romain Barthès (born 9 October 1974) is a French journalist, TV presenter and producer, best known for hosting the television programme '' Le Petit Journal'' and ''Quotidien''. Life and career Barthès first studied English at the Univers ...

(born 1974) - journalist, TV presenter and producer * Émilie Bonnivard (born 1980) politician LR * Léo Trespeuch (born 1987) - snowboarding champion *

Christophe Lemaitre Christophe Lemaitre (; born 11 June 1990) is a former French people, French Sprint (running), sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres, 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an o ...

(born 1990) - sprinter *

Clément Noël Clément Noël (born 3 May 1997) is a French World Cup alpine ski racer and specialises in the slalom discipline. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics, placing fourth in the slalom, then became the gold medalist in slalom at the 2022 W ...

(born 1997) - alpine ski racer

Recipients of honorary degree

Norberto Bobbio Norberto Bobbio (; 18 October 1909 – 9 January 2004) was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily '' La Stampa''. Bobbio was a social lib ...

(1909 – 2004) - Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought *

Fabiola Gianotti Fabiola Gianotti (; born 29 October 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director general, Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate ...

(born 1960) - Italian experimental particle physicist; first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

References

External links

Official homepage of the University Savoie Mont Blanc
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