Université de Lorraine | |
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| Motto | Faire dialoguer les savoirs, c'est innover |
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Motto in English | Innovation through the dialogue between knowledge fields |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 2012 (2012) (1572) |
| Budget | €682 million (2022) |
| President | Hélène Boulanger |
Academic staff | 4,000 |
Administrative staff | 3,000 |
| Students | 62,000 |
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| Location | ,, |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Black,Yellow andWhite[1] |
| Affiliations | Campus Europae,Grands établissements,EPSCP |
| Website | www |
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TheUniversity of Lorraine (French:Université de Lorraine), abbreviated asUL, is apublicresearch university based inLorraine,Grand Est region,France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger ofHenri Poincaré University,Nancy 2 University,Paul Verlaine University – Metz and theNational Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL). It aimed to unify the main colleges of the Lorraine region. The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of aPôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) and was completed in 2012.
The university has 51 campus sites, over the Lorraine region, the main ones are aroundNancy andMetz. The other sites are in the towns ofEpinal,Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,Bar-Le-Duc,Lunéville,Thionville-Yutz,Longwy,Forbach,Saint-Avold,Sarreguemines.
The University of Lorraine has over 62,000 students (10,000 international students, mostly fromLuxembourg,Germany,Italy,China,Morocco,Algeria,Tunisia,Senegal,Cameroon andCôte d'Ivoire) and 7,000 staff.
The original University of Lorraine was founded in 1572, in the nearby city ofPont-à-Mousson byCharles III, duke of Lorraine, andCharles, Cardinal of Lorraine, it was then run by theJesuits. The university was transferred to Nancy in 1768. It was closed by the revolutionaries in 1793, and reopened in 1864.
In 1968, the Faure law created theHenri Poincaré University (Nancy 1),Nancy 2 University and theNational Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine. ThePaul Verlaine University – Metz was created in 1971. In 2012, the 3 universities ofNancy and that ofMetz were merged to create the current University of Lorraine.
So, the University of Lorraine was formed by the merger of:
The University of Lorraine is also supported by a university foundation, ID+ Lorraine.[2]
Teaching includes 43 teaching units (faculties, schools, departments), organized into 9 collegia:
The university has 60 research units, linked with the most important French research organizations:CNRS,INSERM,INRAE andINRIA. They are organized into 10 research areas.
Among these:
Doctoral studies are organized into 8doctoral schools, where 400 thesis are defended annually. The 1,800 PhD students come from 90 different nationalities.
The university has a network of 25 libraries, managed by the Documentation department.[3]
University of Lorraine operates several arts and scientific places and museums, and a botanic garden: Le préau, national theater Espace Bernard-Marie Koltès, Maison pour la Science en Lorraine, Musée archéologique,Aquarium Museum, Musée de l’Histoire du Fer,Jardin Botanique Jean-Marie-Pelt. The last three are co-operated with the Metropole of Grand Nancy.
University of Lorraine undergraduate law program is ranked 5th of France byEduniversal, with 3 stars (2016/17).[4]
According to Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021, University of Lorraine is ranked first European University in the subject Mining & Mineral Engineering.[5]
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| ARWU World[6] | 201–300 (2025) |
| QS World[7] | 751-760 (2026) |
| THE World[8] | 601–800 (2024) |
| USNWR Global[9] | =455 (2026) |
In 2021, the University of Lorraine assumed a coat of arms, viz. “Sable, two open books Argent in chief, in base an escutcheon Or charged with a bend Gules bearing three alerions Argent.”[10]
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