Pierre and Marie Curie University, also known as UPMC, is a public institution that was founded in 1971. The Paris-based university has four main campuses, the largest of which is the Jussieu campus, located in the city's Latin Quarter. Roughly half of the student body at the science- and medicine-focused university studies at the undergraduate level. About 20 percent of students at UPMC are international. Students at UPMC, and at other public universities in France, do not pay tuition. They are instead responsible for relatively low annual fees that vary based on degree level. Some international student housing is available at UPMC, but students can seek housing help from the public organization CROUS.
The university offers the following academic divisions: chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, life sciences and earth sciences, environment and biodiversity. Also part of the university are the Polytech Paris-UPMC engineering school, the Paris Institute of Astrophysics and the Henri Poincaré Institute, which is focused on mathematics and theoretical physics. The university’s academic calendar is semester-based, and the primary language of instruction is French, although some graduate classes are offered in English. Bachelor's programs typically take three years to complete, while master's programs take two years. The university’s roughly 100 research labs fall under one of four broad research divisions: modeling and engineering; energy, matter and the universe; living Earth and environment; and life and health. Among the university’s research facilities are three marine stations and observatories used for research in oceanography, marine biology and related fields.
The Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) is France's largest medical and scientific institution. Established in 1971 following the break-up of the old University of Paris, its roots can be traced back further, to 1109 and the Abbey of St Victor.
The modern-day UPMC comprises 120 research units across 33 separate sites. It has a student body totaling 30,000, which includes 3,500 doctoral students, who can choose from subjects organised across seven faculties, including Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Life Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Biodiversity.
Named after two of its most notable alumni, UPMC boats associations with 17 Nobel Laureates in total. As well as Pierre and Marie Curie, other Nobel prize winners with a UPMC connection include Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, for her work on discovering the HIV virus, Jean-Baptiste Perrin for his work on the atom, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, an expert in quantum physics.
UPMC is an institution with a global standing. Around 20% of its 34,000 students are international and the university is an active member of three of the five European innovation networks: Climate KIC, the EIT ICT Labs, and EIT Health.
It also promotes study abroad programmes and offers four international bachelor’s degrees, 16 international master’s, and four international doctorates in partnership with universities worldwide.
The university is home to 120 laboratories and is supported by 3,750 researchers and professors. Its publications number around 8,500 annually and one of its central aims is to respond to current issues facing twenty-first century societies.
Located in the heart of Paris, the university is an exciting student destination. The university prides itself on providing students with manageable timetables, which gives them time to participate in clubs, sports and all the cultural attractions the city has to offer.
Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris, with most facilities on a campus of 500 000m². UPMC also has branches in regions outside Paris : 3 ocean logical observatories, at Roscoff (Atlantic Ocean), Banyuls and Villefranche-sur-Mer (Mediterranean Sea). Medicine : 2 medical teaching and research units in Paris teaching hospitals [CHUs]: Saint-Antoine and Pitié- Salpêtrière. Partnerships with a number of hospitals and health care centers. The different campuses are part of a complete renovation program.
UNDERGRADUATE
Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) is the top French university, covering all major sciences: mathematics; chemistry; physics; electronics; computer science; mechanics; Earth, marine and environmental sciences; life sciences; and medicine. Located in the heart of Paris, most UPMC facilities are on the Jussieu campus. It also boasts three outstanding oceanography observatories on France’s coasts. UPMC’s medical faculty works with seven teaching hospitals and its five medical institutes include research, patient care and teaching programs.
As France's largest scientific and medical education center, UPMC offers its 34,000 students (of which 20 percent are foreign) a demanding and diverse curriculum organized into 10 bachelor programs, 10 master’s degrees and 16 doctoral schools. UPMC promotes study abroad programs through its international bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in partnership with universities worldwide.
Producing approximately 11% of the national research publications, UPMC has more than 3,750 professor-researchers and researchers in 100 laboratories in partnership with the main French research organizations.
UPMC is a member of Sorbonne University, a comprehensive group of establishments—all top in their fields. As part of the Sorbonne University group, UPMC education and research programs can also include technology, economics, humanities and the arts.
POSTGRADUATE
Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris, with most facilities on a campus of 500 000m². UPMC also has branches in regions outside Paris : 3 ocean logical observatories, at Roscoff (Atlantic Ocean), Banyuls and Villefranche-sur-Mer (Mediterranean Sea). Medicine : 2 medical teaching and research units in Paris teaching hospitals [CHUs]: Saint-Antoine and Pitié- Salpêtrière. Partnerships with a number of hospitals and health care centers. The different campuses are part of a complete renovation program.
