• TypeUniversities
• LocationNantes, France
• Taught inFrench
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Nantes Université is a university in Nantes, France, with further university centres in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. According to the university, it has 42,000 students, including 5,500 international students, 5,680 staff and 42 research laboratories. Its research teams take part in European programmes such as Horizon Europe and ERC grants, and in 2026 the university reported a 48th place worldwide in ocean engineering in the Shanghai ranking.

Teaching and research are organised in four divisions: Humanities, Health, Science and Technology, and Societies. Faculties and schools include:

• Law and political science, and IAE Nantes (economics and management)
• Medicine, pharmacy and dentistry
• Science and technology, and the École Polytechnique (Polytech Nantes)
• Literature, languages and foreign cultures
• Institutes of technology (IUT) in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon

Centrale Nantes, the Nantes school of architecture (ENSA Nantes) and the Nantes school of fine arts (ESBA Nantes) are component institutions of the university. International students can learn French at the Institut de Français Langue Étrangère (i-FLE). Exchanges and international mobility are handled by the Direction Europe et International, based at the Maison des Echanges Internationaux et de la Francophonie (MEIF).

• Business
  • Business Administration
• Computing
  • Information Technology
• Economics
  • Economics
• Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
• Health
  • Pharmacology
  • Dentistry
  • Medicine
• Humanities
  • History
  • Art History
• Law
  • Law
• Philology, Languages, Literature
  • Modern Languages
• Sciences
  • Nature Sciences
  • Athletics and exercise science
  • Archeology
  • Sociology
  • Chemistry
  • Psychology
  • Mathematics
  • Geography
  • Physics
  • Political Science
  • Biology

1, quai de Tourville, Nantes, France, 44035

Programmes are offered across four divisions (Humanities, Health, Science and Technology, Societies) through faculties and schools including:

• UFR Droit et sciences politiques (law and political science)
• IAE Nantes (economics and management)
• UFR Médecine, UFR Odontologie and UFR Sciences pharmaceutiques et biologiques
• UFR Sciences et techniques and École Polytechnique (Polytech Nantes)
• UFR Lettres et langages and Faculté des Langues et Cultures Étrangères
• UFR Psychologie, UFR Sociologie, UFR Histoire, Histoire de l'art et Archéologie
• UFR STAPS (sport sciences)
• IUT in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon