University of Montpellier 1

Montpellier 1 University, a distant descendant of two mediaeval universities that are among the oldest in Europe, is pleased to incorporate an international element into this heritage that has been passed down through the years. Montpellier University has remained prominent on an international level as one of the great universities, generously exporting knowledge and maintaining an inclusive policy of welcoming students, lecturers and researchers from every continent.

Montpellier 1 University, a distant descendant of two mediaeval universities that are among the oldest in Europe, is pleased to incorporate an international element into this heritage that has been passed down through the years. Montpellier University has remained prominent on an international level as one of the great universities, generously exporting knowledge and maintaining an inclusive policy of welcoming students, lecturers and researchers from every continent. In January 2015, the merger of the University of Montpellier 1 and Montpellier 2 announces the appearance of the new University of Montpellier. 2015 is not provided his birth year. Rooted in the history of his city and its region, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in Europe exercise.

Appeared around the year 980, Montpellier is at once a place of encounter and exchange between cultures Christian, Jewish and Muslim. The university vocation of the city is affirmed in the medical field in 1180 with the authorization to practice and teach medicine. And a century later, the medical education is recognized by the Church, which makes Montpellier oldest School of practicing medicine in the Western world. At the same time, lawyers are beginning to gather in Montpellier around famous teachers as Placentin Bologna. In 1289, the University of Montpellier was officially created by the bull Quia sapientia of Pope Nicolas IV. Named a Studium Generale , it gathers at the time the teachings of medicine, law, literature and theology.