University of Aix-Marseilles

Aix-Marseille University is today one of the youngest universities in France, it is also the largest by the number of its students, its staff and its budget. All of which made of Aix-Marseille University an institution of higher education and excellent research. Aix-Marseille University offers, at a time when the labor market is a flagship university mission, all academic fields it is possible to study in France.

Aix-Marseille University offers training in all disciplines: Arts, Literature, Languages ​​and Humanities; Law and Political Science; Economics and Management ; Health; Science and Technology. An intensive research site in collaboration with leading organizations, AMU is one of the French sites of excellence recognized by an international jury as part of Future Investments. AMU is also among the sites labeled "Operation Campus", with 500 million euros in capital mobilized to renovate and modernize its university campuses. The AMU Foundation helps develop research, training and employability of students, while creating a privileged link with the socio-economic world. Training, research, guidance, employability, interdisciplinarity and exploitation of knowledge are the pillars of this establishment, largest university in France and the Francophone world.

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) is determined to pursue a dynamic and proactive international policy, and has established an International Relations Office with a mission to promote the European and international dimension of AMU’s teaching and research activities. The office reports to the President and the Vice President for International Relations, and is primarily responsible for developing cooperation with foreign universities and managing student and faculty mobility, as part of interuniversity agreements and exchange programs.

A large, multidisciplinary university with nearly 71,000 students, AMU belongs to an appropriately vast network of partners (over 420 in Europe and over 300 outside Europe), from whose expertise it benefits while in turn showcasing its own fields of excellence. Its involvement in consortia (CREPUQ, ISEP, etc.) gives students the opportunity to study and/or undertake internships in any part of the world.

Aix-Marseille University provides a major contribution to the knowledge economy and the dissemination of knowledge. AMU’s research agenda, pursued in collaboration with the major French research institutions, is driven by a strong ambition to develop research on the Aix-Marseille site.