Type Public Administrative staff 1,670 Postgraduates 2,578 Phone +33 1 69 15 67 50 Founded 17 December 1970 Academic staff 2,461 | Established 1971 (1971) Students 27,307 Location Orsay, France Total enrollment 29,965 (2014) Endowment 450 million EUR Parent organization University of Paris | |
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Address 15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, 91400 Orsay, France Notable alumni Albert Fert, Ngô Bảo Châu, Jean‑Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Lafforgue, Anne Dambricourt‑Malassé Similar University of Paris, Pierre‑and‑Marie‑Curie University, École Polytechnique, Paris Diderot University, École normale supérieur Profiles | ||
Best universities 42 university of paris sud
University of Paris-Sud (French: Université Paris-Sud), also known as University of Paris XI, is a French university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris including Orsay, Cachan, Châtenay-Malabry, Sceaux and Kremlin-Bicêtre campuses. The main campus is located in Orsay (48.699890°N 2.173309°E / 48.699890; 2.173309). This university is a member of the UniverSud Paris and a constituent university of the federal University of Paris-Saclay.
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Paris-Sud is one of the largest and most renowned French universities, particularly in science and mathematics.
Four Fields Medalists and two Nobel Prize Winners have been affiliated to the university.
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History
Paris-Sud was originally part of the University of Paris, which was subsequently split into several universities. After World War II, the rapid growth of nuclear physics and chemistry meant that research needed more and more powerful accelerators, which required large areas. The Université de Paris, the École Normale Supérieure and the Collège de France looked for space in the south of Paris near Orsay. Later some of the teaching activity of the Faculty of Sciences in Paris was transferred to Orsay. The rapid increase of students led to the independence of the Orsay Center on March 1, 1965.
Now it hosts a great number of laboratories on its large (236 ha) campus. Many of the top French laboratories are among them especially in particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, atomic physics and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, theoretical physics, electronics, and nanoscience and nanotechnology. University of Paris-Sud comprises some 104 research units.
About 30,000 students are currently enrolled. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Albert Fert, two Nobel Prize winners of physics, were affiliated to the University of Paris-Sud. A number of most renowned French mathematicians are or were affiliated to the University of Paris-Sud as well. Among them are the Fields medalists Laurent Lafforgue, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Wendelin Werner and Ngô Bảo Châu.
Paris-Sud also comprises biology and chemistry laboratories, engineering and technology schools and has established partnerships with many of the surrounding technology centres and Grandes Ecoles. It also includes Schools of Law, Economics and Management.