Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand

Blaise Pascal University has five Faculties (called “U.F.R.”, Unités de Formation et de Recherche); two Schools of Engineering; one University Institute of Technology and one Teacher Training Faculty.With 1150 Lecturing and Research Staff, the University is well-known for the quality of its teaching and research. It has four Doctoral Schools and thirty-one laboratories and research teams, sixteen of which are associated with the C.N.R.S. (National Centre for Scientific Research) and two with the I.N.R.A. (National Institute for Research in Agronomy).The university offers its 16,000 students courses (B.A./B.Sc., M.A./M.Sc. to Ph.D. level) in its extensively multidisciplinary fields of the Arts, Languages and the Humanities, Exact and Natural Sciences and Technology, Sports Science and Engineering.The University also has a long tradition of welcoming foreign students (2160) who come particularly to study in the context of European programmes or under the terms of international co-operation agreements with 270 institutions situated all over the world.