University of TOULOUSE

The territory

Located in Midi-Pyrénees region

3 M inhabitants

Toulouse (the capital city) counts approx. 441 800 inhabitants

University of Toulouse founded in 1229 (Bologna/ Salamanca/Sorbonne)

2014 : 120 000 Students

UT IS A FEDERATIONStronger together !

UT is legal body grouping together 14 HE Institutions

ITS MISSIONS: Enhancing the attractiveness of the University of Toulouse, speaking in one voice and offering the best opportunities to students.

(6 founders)

4 Universities : Toulouse 1 capitole : Law, Economics, Management Jean-Jaures le Mirail : Humanities, Languages Paul Sabatier : Sciences, Technologies and Health Institut National Polytechnique : Engineering 2 Engineering schools : Institut National des Sciences Appliquées : Engineering Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace :Aeronautics

and Space

UNIVERSITY of TOULOUSE (8 associate members)

Sc. Po : political sciencesENAC : pilots trainingTBS : business schoolEcole des Mines d’Albi : engineeringENFA : agriculture ICAM : engineeringCentre Universitaire Champollion : non-specialized univ.ENS Archi. De Toulouse : architecture

120 000 students (among which 15 000 foreign students)

30 000 diploma awarded a year

1 500 frame agreements with 110 countries

15 Doctoral Schools

4500 PhD students

6000 researchers and researchers-lecturers

7 leading research institutes

200 laboratories

Key figures

2012 – permanent office in China / 2014 Indonesia and Brazil

Academic training

Fields of academic excellence Space Aeronautics Health (sp. cancer research) Engineering Economics Tourism & hospitality

The University of Toulouse boasts a top-ranking academic offer covering all the fields of knowledge

English-taught Master’s Degrees

45 master’s programs in English in the fields of law, Economics, Management, Sciences, Technologies, Health and engineering.

20 specialized master’s programs in English in the fields of Law, Economics, Management and Engineering

List of the masters programs in English on : www.univ-toulouse.fr

wide & increasing offer of programmes taught in English

PhD programs 15 Doctoral schools cover a wide range of scientific domains

and award PhD degrees

with one single label "Université de Toulouse"

The student can write and defend a thesis in English.

Social and human sciences and humanities • Legal and Political Sciences • Management Sciences • Toulouse School of Economics • Behaviour, Language, Education, Socialisation and Cognition • Arts, Literature , Languages, Philosophy, Information and Communication • Time, Territory, Societies and Cultures

Sciences and Technologies • Biology, Health and Biotechnologies • Sciences for Ecology, Veterinary, Agronomy and Bioengineering • Geosciences , Astrophysics and Space sciences • Mathematics, Informatics and Telecommunications • Electrical engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications • Electronic systems • Physics, Chemistry and Material sciences • Mechanics, Energetics, Civil and Process Engineering • Aeronautics and Astronautics

First region in France in terms of R&D efforts: 4.2% of the GDP are dedicated to RD, i.e. twice the European average

Second region in France (after l’Ile de France) for the number of researchers

Around 25 000 people in research and development: 10 000 in public research and 15 000 in private research

Public Research (1)

6 major scientific fields:• Economics and Social Sciences• Mathematics, Information and Engineering Sciences and

Technology• Heritage, Apprenticeship, Creation, Societies• Material Sciences• Life Sciences, Planet, Environment, Space

200 research laboratories, 6000 researchers and 4300 PhD students, the higher education institutions (universities, engineering and graduate schools, doctoral schools) build up a highly dynamic research think tank which also benefits from the close collaboration with the seven major national research bodies (CNRS  - INSERM – IRD – INRA - ONERA - CNES – CNRM)

Public Research (2)

Research and economic development

Partnering with the industry is one of the priorities of the University of Toulouse and its research laboratories with a view to creating added value.

Numerous cooperation tools have been set-up in order to deploy far-reaching scientific projects, build new researchers networks, explore further fields of research and support innovation in a highly competitive economic environment.

4 main research clusters (univ + labs + firms)

Aerospace valley (Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems)

Cancer Bio-Health (Health, Biotechnology and Oncological research) Agrimip – Innovation (Agriculture and Food Industry) Water & environment (Ecotechnologies)

Toulouse, city of innovation

Main technological and scientific areas

Pharmaceutical industry, biotechnologies

(Sanofi-Aventis,LaboratoiresPierre-Fabre…)

Aeronautics and space Electronics, embedded systems,ICTs

(Freescale,Continental,Alstom transport…)

Agri-food industry

(3A,

Gerblé Novartis,

Andros…)

(Airbus group, ATR, Airbus defense and space, Thales Alenia Space, Liebherr-Aerospace, ATR, LATECOERE …)

Toulouse, city of innovation

Main international technological firms

MAJOR ASSETS

a top-ranking academic offer covering all the fields of knowledge

English-taught Master’s Degrees

High-ranking research and innovation

Strong strategic partnerships with major research centers and multinational companies

a European and world leader in a number of activities (aeronautics)

Career opportunities and customized guidance (TOUL’BOX)

Elected most attractive city for the quality of life by students

In 2012, the University of Toulouse has been awarded by the French government for the quality and diversity of its academic offer and the excellence of its far-reaching research activities .

The” Initiative of Excellence” label

One of the eight high-flying French academic and scientific clusters of international scope.

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