Former French university existing from 1971 to 2018
This article is about the successor of the faculty of humanities of theUniversity of Paris, active from 1971 to 2017. For its successor, seeSorbonne University.
Paris-Sorbonne University (also known asParis IV;French:Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was apublicresearch university inParis, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of theUniversity of Paris. In 2018, it merged withPierre and Marie Curie University and some smaller entities to form a new university calledSorbonne University and became its Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Paris-Sorbonne University was one of the inheritors of the Faculty of Humanities (French:Faculté des lettres) of theUniversity of Paris[1] (also known as theSorbonne), which ceased to exist following student protests inMay 1968. The Faculty of Humanities was the main focus of the University of Paris, and subsequently Paris-Sorbonne University was one of its main successors.[2] It was a member of theSorbonne University Group.
Paris-Sorbonne University enrolled about 24,000 students in 20 departments specialising inarts,humanities andlanguages, divided in 12campuses throughoutParis. Seven of the campuses were situated in the historicLatin Quarter, including the historicSorbonne university building, and three in theMarais,Malesherbes andClignancourt respectively. In addition, the university also maintained one campus inAbu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates, calledSorbonne University Abu Dhabi. Paris-Sorbonne University also comprised France's prestigious communication and journalism school,CELSA, located in the Parisian suburb ofNeuilly-sur-Seine. Paris-Sorbonne University maintained about 400 international agreements.
As a successor of the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris, it was a founding member theSorbonne University group, an alliance with the successor of the faculty oflaw andeconomics and of the faculty ofscience of the University of Paris (respectively,Panthéon-Assas University andPierre-and-Marie-Curie University).[3] This group allowed Paris-Sorbonne University students to pursue severaldual degrees. Two graduate certificates in law from Panthéon-Assas University (Sorbonne Law School) were accessible for all the student members of the Sorbonne University group.[4]
