Founded in 1220, the University of Montpellier has a history of over 800 years, the University of Montpellier (UM), is one of the oldest universities in the world. As the sixth largest university in France, in 2015, it was formed by and merged.
The combined University of Montpellier inherits the excellence of the first and second universities and complements their respective strengths.
In 2019, the University of Montpellier was selected as the number one school in ecology in the 2019 World Class Subject Rankings for Soft Subjects, surpassing oxford in the UK and the University of California, Davis in the US. In the same year, Reuters selected "France's most innovative university" and UM ranked first.
2021 World University Rankings rank 204th in the world; 4th in France
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2021 World Comprehensive Ranking 151-200; 8th in France
World University Rankings 2021 (THE) 301-350
Ranked 168 in the world overall ranking in 2020
The University of Montpellier has 4 main campuses and is easily accessible. The school offers 250 master's programs, 150 undergraduate programs (including vocational education programs), and 55 health-related national diplomas. At the same time, it also offers 22 international double degrees, 17 off-site training courses, and 20 training programs in cooperation with Erasmus+.
Erasmus+, is a program under the European Commission. The programme, which runs from 2014 until 2020, integrates all the EU programmes on education, youth and sport. The European Parliament's resolution from 2021 to 2027 triples the budget for this programme. This program includes erasmus, a student exchange program, erasmus world program for master's and doctoral classes, Erasmus for young entrepreneurs, a comenius program for school education, a da Vinci program for vocational training, and an Erasmus+ program for adult education. The European Commission guarantees that the programme will operate efficiently and promises to provide a concise scholarship platform for students in need.
The school includes medicine, science and technology, sports, law, politics, economics, management and other aspects of the profession. Every year, thousands of international students choose to study at UM.
: Economics, Ecology (ranked No. 1 in the world), Agriculture (Ranked 42nd in the world), Biology (Ranked 101-150 in the world), Food Science, Chemistry, Marine Science
Currently, there are nearly 50,000 students in the school, including about 7,000 students from other countries. International students account for 16% of the total number of students, which shows the degree of internationalization of UM.
Faculties and departments
UM has 15 faculties
Faculty of Athletics and physical education (STAPS)
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Sciences
Montpellier Management Institute (MOMA)
Polytech Montpellier Engineering school
School for General Administration (IPAG)
School of Business Administration (IAE)
University School of Technology – Béziers
University School of Technology – Montpellier – Sète
University school of Technology – Nîmes
In addition to study life, the school has more than 100 various clubs, such as humanitarian work, sports, culture, etc. Joining clubs is very effective in integrating into campus life and interacting with students from different backgrounds and cultures.
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Rabelais, the great writer of the French Renaissance era and the representative of humanism
Zhou Taixuan, a famous Chinese biologist
Xiong Qinglai, a pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics
In addition, the University of Montpellier is a French public university and a higher comprehensive institution directly under the French Ministry of Education and recognized and recommended by the Chinese Ministry of Education, and there is no problem of state non-recognition and non-recognition.
It is also a university with the same name as, eschooling and Germany, a university with close ties with french national research institutions, and a member of the Coimbra Group, a consortium of top European universities.
For more than 800 years, the University of Montpellier has been constantly advancing, expanding from the initial strong subjects of medicine and law to more than 200 different curriculum settings, keeping up with the pace of the times, introducing outstanding teachers for students, and cooperating with well-known domestic institutions and universities to recruit outstanding Chinese students.
Innovative and rigorous, modern and ancient, this school always exudes a mysterious color.
Walking into Montpellier is like walking into the corridor of French history, to experience its cultural atmosphere and rich historical heritage, to appreciate his customs and customs, to feel his academic atmosphere.