Paris Dauphine University (French: Université Paris-Dauphine), often referred to as Paris Dauphine or Dauphine, is a public research and higher education institution in Paris, France. Dauphine was founded as a faculty of economics and management in 1968 in the former NATO headquarters in western Paris, in the 16th arrondissement.
Dauphine is renowned for its teaching in finance, economics, law, finance and mathematics and business strategy. Dauphine is a selective university with the status of a 'major establishment' (Grand Etablissement); this unique legal status within the French higher education system allows Dauphine to make an entrance selection of its students. On average, 90 to 95% of the accepted students received either high distinctions or the highest distinctions at their French High School National Exam results (Examen National du Baccalauréat).
Dauphine is also a founding member of a multidisciplinary alliance in Paris, "Paris Sciences et Lettres" (PSL*). It also belongs to the Conférence des Grandes écoles.
Founded in 1968, Dauphine is specialized in the organization and decision sciences: Management, Economics, Law, Political Science, Sociology, Applied Mathematics, Management Information Systems and Languages.
In 2009, Université Paris-Dauphine obtained the EQUIS accreditation (European Quality for Improvement System) awarded by the European Foundation for Management Development.
In 2011, Université Paris-Dauphine became officially recognized as one of the 16 partners and co-founders of Paris Sciences et Lettres.
Dauphine’s international relations cover:
Paris Dauphine University is also present in Tunis through the Tunis-Dauphine Institute.
180 agreements with more than 40 countries, including New York University in the US, the University of Toronto and McGill in Canada, UCL and LSE in the UK, the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Bologna University in Italy and Humboldt-Universitat-zu Berlin in Germany.
6 joint diplomas with two universities:
The Autonomous University of Madrid
Goethe University, Frankfurt
24.9% international students enrolled in various programmes or diplomas in 2004/2005, including several students from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia.
Some notable professors of Dauphine include Professor Pierre-Louis Lions (Fields Medal in 1994), and Professor Witold Litwin (inventor of linear hashing and fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in France).
National rankings
2015: 5th business school of France according to Eduniversal ranking
2010: 4th best alumni network according to the Challenges magazine-Who's Who ranking (ENA, Polytechnique, HEC, Dauphine)
2016: 1st best Master 2 in Finance according to Best-Masters.com
2016: 4th best Master 2 in Business law according to Best-Masters.com
2008: 6th business school in France (ESSEC, HEC, ESCP EUROPE, Sciences Po, EM LYON, Dauphine)
International rankings
2014: 36th best university in the world for producing millionnaires
2013: 23rd best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking
2012: 18th best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking
2011: 18th best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking
2010: 97th/1000 business school of the world according to eduniversal ranking
2008: 64th university in the world according to the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris ranking
Jacques Aigrain: ex-Chairman of Swiss Re
Thierry Aimar: French economist, specialist of the Austrian School of economics and history of economic thought
Ignacio Arbesú: Mexican researcher, professor
Régis Arnoux: CEO and founder of Catering International Services
Audrey Azoulay
Diane Barrière-Desseigne: ex-CEO of Groupe Lucien Barrière
Olivier Blanchard: International Monetary Fund chief economist
Yannick Bolloré: Chairman of Bolloré Media
Bruno Bonnell: ex-Chairman of Infogrames
Christophe Chenut: ex-CEO of Lacoste
Elie Cohen (économiste): French economist
Michel Combes: CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, ex-CEO of TDF
Claude Czechowski: ex-CEO of CSC EMEA South & West
Philippe Dupont: ex-Chairman of BPCE
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: French politician, deputy and president of Arise the Republic
Jean-Luc Gérard: Chairman of Ford France
Arnaud Lagardère: Chairman of Lagardère and of the Board of Directors of EADS
Alessandrina Lerner (Sandrine Cornet): author
Marc Levy: author
Hervé Mariton: French politician, Deputy and former Minister
Roland Minnerath: Archbishop of Dijon (France)
Thierry Morin: ex-Chairman of Valeo
Raymond Ndong Sima: First Minister of Gabon
Hervé Novelli: French politician, Deputy and former Minister
François Pierson: Chairman of AXA France
Bernard Ramanantsoa: Chairman of HEC Paris
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux: entrepreneur, founder of The Phone House
Jean-Michel Severino: ex-CEO of the French Development Agency
Jean-Marc Sylvestre: French journalist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan
Jean Tirole: economist; recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014; author of The Theory of Corporate Finance, Princeton University Press 2006
Cédric Villani: mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 2010
Boni Yayi: President of the Republic of Benin
John Campbell: professor of economics at Harvard University
Ronald Fagin: computer scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center
Eleanor Fox: professor at New York University
Jim Gray: computer scientist and Turing award winner
Olivier Hart: professor of economics at Harvard University
Paul Joskow: professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ehud Kalai: professor at Northwestern University and author of Kalai-Smorodinsky model
Hayne Ellis Leland: professor at University of California, Berkeley
Henry Mintzberg: professor of management at McGill University
Edmund Phelps: professor at Columbia University and author of golden rule savings rate
Myron Scholes: economist and author of Black-Scholes model and Nobel prize
Robert J. Shiller: professor of finance at Yale School of Management and Nobel prize
Helmut Siekmann: professor at University of California, Berkeley
Tom Snijders: professor at Nuffield College, Oxford and at the University of Groningen
Herbert Spohn: professor at the Technical University Munich
Melchior Wathelet: Belgian politician
