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Facts and Figures

Published on 26/03/2024 - Updated on 27/03/2024

Facts and Figures

Educating citizens so they can change the world

  • Arts & Humanities
  • Health Sciences
  • Science & Engineering
  • More than 55,000 students
  • Of which 12,300 are international
  • 37 bachelor's programs, of which 46 are bi-disciplinary
  • 250 master's programs
     
  • 310 international programs
  • More than 1,200 ERASMUS+ exchange agreements
  • The 4EU+ Alliance, a new model for a European university
  • 9 international strategic partners
  • Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
     
  • 4,900 bachelor's diplomas awarded per year
  • 4,400 master's diplomas awarded per year
  • 2,400 new doctors & medical professionals trained per year
  • 10,000 active alumni
  • More than 90% employability
     
  • More than 750 student jobs
  • 4,100-person capacity in libraries
  • More than 150 student associations

Driving intensive and multidisciplinary research

  • 7,300 professors & national research partners
  • More than 1/4 of the members in the French academies
  • 8% of the members at University Institute of France (IUF)
  • 90% of research work in co-publication
  • More than 1,500 research contracts signed per year
  • 21 Nobel Prizes 
  • 7 Fields Medals

 

  • 135 research units
  • 23 doctoral schools
  • 800 doctorates awarded each year
  • More than 100 technology platforms
     
  • The Sorbonne University Alliance: 6 members & 4 national research centers
  • 3 University Hospital Institutes
  • Top French university in ocean sciences
  • 3 Marine stations
  • Top French university in European projects including 87 ERC
  • Top French university in open science according to Leiden rankings

Putting science in service to society

  • 12,000 participants at the science festival
  • The Sorbonne Summer University: 45 nationalities learn about French culture
  • 7th science podcasts: more than 62,650 listeners per year
  • Between 20 to 30 events in science and culture per month
  • The Choir & Orchestra
  • Science Together: a platform dedicated to Participative Science
  • The University of Patients
  • The House of Science in Paris Île-De-France
  • €27m collected since 2010
  • 61 projects financed
  • 72 corporate sponsors
  • 2,500 individual donors

Creating a complete innovation ecosystem

  • Innovation Cite, a public/private entrepreneurial space
  • One job created by Sorbonne University generates 3.2 jobs
  • €1 invested generates €4 for the French economy
     
  • 9 Institutes & 11 Initiatives with a transdisciplinary approach, renewing education and research
  • 2 Carnot Institutes
  • Summit: exchanges with researchers & companies
  • 4 incubators
  • 2 Fab Labs: in Science & Engineering and in the Arts & Humanities
  • More than €2m from intellectual property rights
  • 270 start-ups created
  • More than €150m raised
  • Seed funding of €60m
  • More than 150 inventions declared per year
  • More than 1,200 patents filed
  • 580 matured projects