List of universities and colleges in France
The French public higher education system includes universities and other higher education institutes, that provide both education curricula and related degrees up to doctoral degree and also contribute to research activities. They are the backbone of the tertiary education institutions in France. They are listed as different categories, depending on their administrative status, size and extents of research activity compared to educational activities.
Aside from the nationally funded public education system that provides recognised degrees to the vast majority of students in France and that keeps tuition fees low, there exist private institutes.
Public universities in France
French public universities (see List of public universities in France for a detailed list) are as of 2015 in the process of reorganization according to the Law on Higher Education and Research passed in July 2013. This includes some merging of institutions, and the previous high-level organization under Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) has been dissolved.
Public technical universities, institutes of technologies and autonomous scientific higher education institutes
The Établissements publics à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel (EPCSP) that are not listed as universities in the list above operate as university-grade institutes.
- Arts et Métiers ParisTech
- Centrale Graduate School
- Supaéro(ISAE) à Toulouse
- Collège de France
- Conservatoire National de Art et Métiers
- École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles
- École Nationale des Chartes
- École Normale Supérieure
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- École pratique des hautes études
- IFP School - École nationale supérieure du pétrole et des moteurs
- Institut national des sciences appliquées
- Institut supérieur de mécanique de Paris
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
- Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
- Institut Telecom
- Universities of Technology
- Grenoble Institute of Technology
- Paris Dauphine University
- Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Grandes écoles
Private universities
- International Relations and Political Science Universities
- Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Internationales et Politiques HEI-HEP, Paris
- Centre d'Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques, (Graduate / doctoral school of HEI-HEP) Paris
- Catholic universities
- Center for Philosophical Studies
- Independent Cooperative Faculty
- Leonardo da Vinci University Center
- Free Faculties of Philosophy and Psychology
- Protestant universities
- Free Faculty of Reform Theology of Aix-en-Provence
- Free Faculty of Protestant Theology of Montpellier
- Free Faculty of Protestant Theology of Paris
- Others
Art schools
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique
- École des Beaux-Arts
- European Academy of Art (EESAB) (France)
- Paris College of Art
See also
- List of public universities in France
- Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel
- Education in France
- List of universities and colleges by country
- Lists of universities and colleges
- G. I American Universities