Introduction to UP13

The University of Paris 13 (UP13) is one of the thirteen successor universities created after the Sorbonne after 1968. The University now has close on 22,000 students on its rolls, on four campuses, following degree or ongoing training courses.
UP13 is a truly multidisciplinary establishment, and a major teaching and research hub in the north of Paris.

The University of Paris 13 is a member of PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité and of Campus Condorcet

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Message from the President

 Last year, some of you were still in high school and are now discovering the university for the first time. For returning students, this is the start of a new academic year. All of you will benefit from the improvements to your living and working conditions since September or over the course of the 2009 - 2010 academic year.
A vast campus renovation programme is getting under way, focusing as its main priority on improving disabled access and everyday quality of life for all. Better accessibility for students and persons with reduced mobility, renovated toilet blocks (with better accessibility) on all four campuses, a new library at Bobigny, but also new student housing at Villetaneuse and Bobigny. An agreement with the CROUS and social housing providers to increase the number of housing units on offer in Saint-Denis.  A new library for the Villetaneuse campus, and landscaping of our green spaces…
On the academic front, a plan to improve working conditions in the first year of degree courses has been introduced, the first effects of which should be felt as the new year gets under way: refresher courses, smaller tutorial groups, more tutors, etc. At the same time, we will be introducing centralised management of internship opportunities in order to be able to offer more internships as part of more courses, and be better able to evaluate them. The task of the university is to prepare you for working life. Throughout your course, we will be encouraging you to set out your Personal and Professional Project in the clearest possible terms. This year, on 22nd October, we will be organising a major student/business forum on the Villetaneuse campus so that future employers can meet our students. Soon, with the extension of the Paris tram system and the “tangentielle Nord” rail link, the university will enjoy much improved transport services – but that’s another story.

On behalf of all the faculty and staff of the University of Paris 13, let me welcome you to the new term and wish you every success in your studies.

Prof. Jean-Loup Salzmann
President of the University of Paris 13.


Four-Year Agreement

The University of Paris 13 Four-Year Agreement was approved by the meeting of the Board of Governors of 24th June 2009.

In order to enhance its reputation, power of attraction and local engagement, over the period 2009-2012 the University will pursue three strategic guidelines:

 1. Asserting the specific features of its identity in terms of research and training.

2. Building a new quality of life on its campuses.

3. Gearing governance to strategy: in pursuit of autonomy.

 Download the University of Paris 13 Four-Year Agreement

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Observatory of Student Life

The University of Paris 13 Observatory of Student Life (Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante, OVE) conducts qualitative and quantitative surveys of different aspects of student life:

• integration into the workplace

• assessment of courses and teaching

• student living and working conditions

Headed by the Vice-President of the CEVU, André Tardieu, the OVE conducts these studies to help guide University policy and to keep students informed.

Survey results are published in the OVE newsletter.

 OVE newsletters 1, 2 and 3

UP13 key figures

20,237 students on four campuses in nine teaching units

• Villetaneuse campus: 12,059 students

• Saint-Denis and Plaine Saint-Denis campuses: 1,950 students

• Bobigny campus: 6,228 students

Nationally recognised diplomas

• 13 DUT diplomas, 20 first degrees, 18 vocational degrees, 27 Master’s (83 specialist subjects)

• 28 Doctorates, 6 HDR research doctorates, 1 Engineering Diploma in 5 specialist subjects

• 5 medical specialties, 1 Doctor of Medicine diploma (State diploma)

• 56 University diplomas

Research

• 29 laboratories, 2 doctoral schools

Personnel

• some 700 BIATOSS administrative and technical staff

• 1,181 teaching staff, teaching/research staff and hospital teaching staff

2009 Budget

• 62,708,000 euros

UP13 key figures

Status of the University

UP13 has the status of a public scientific, cultural and professional establishment. It is a legal entity and enjoys pedagogical, scientific, administrative and financial autonomy. It determines its own policy within the framework of regulations and laws in place and in accordance with its contractual undertakings, to the French State in particular.

Mission of the University

The fundamental vocation of the University of Paris 13 is the enhancement of scientific, cultural and professional knowledge for all, through initial and ongoing training and through the development of research, which is an essential support for such knowledge.

In accordance with its mission, the University of Paris 13 pursues the following objectives:

• enrolling, informing and guiding students and providing them with initial or ongoing training leading in particular to nationally recognised diplomas,

• developing scientific and technological research, disseminating and exploiting its results,

• promoting career guidance and integration into the world of work,

• promoting all desirable forms of relations with the regional environment,

• contributing to the cultural enrichment and the scientific and technical information of the university community and the regional population,

• promoting national and international cooperation between universities, and in particular in the  promotion of the European Higher Education Area.

Download a copy of the University Statutes