• TypeUniversities
• LocationParis 6e, France
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Université Paris Cité (UPCité) is a public university in Paris, created in 2019 by the merger of the universities Paris Diderot and Paris Descartes with the Institut de physique du globe de Paris. It has about 63,000 students, 4,500 staff and 119 laboratories, spread over some twenty campuses and research sites in Paris and its inner suburbs, including the Grands Moulins and Saint-Germain-des-Prés campuses. According to the university, it was ranked in 26 disciplines, 10 of them in the global top 50, in the 2026 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.

Teaching is organised in three faculties and an institute:

• Faculty of Health: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing
• Faculty of Sciences: science and technology
• Faculty of Societies and Humanities: arts, humanities, languages, and human, economic and social sciences
• Institut de physique du globe de Paris (earth sciences)

At master's and doctoral level, graduate schools group programmes in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities, with incoming mobility grants for international master's students. The university offers international joint programmes at undergraduate and graduate level, programmes taught in English and summer schools, and takes part in Erasmus and the Circle U. European alliance. Its Student Life department helps with housing, from CROUS residences to partner platforms.

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Master's and doctoral programmes are grouped in graduate schools that combine master's and PhD training with research, under the university's 'Planetary Health' theme:

• Graduate schools in life sciences
• Graduate schools in physical sciences and engineering
• Graduate schools in social sciences and humanities

Incoming mobility grants help international students join master's programmes, and interdisciplinary training and summer schools are offered to master's and doctoral students.

The Student Life department helps students find housing. Options include:

• CROUS de Paris residences: more than 6,750 rooms in over 70 residences, mainly for scholarship holders and mobility students; apply through the online DSE between 15 January and 31 May
• Partner residences from Logifac and Twenty Campus in Paris and the Île-de-France region
• Studapart platform, which can also act as guarantor for students without one in France
• Intergenerational housing with Colette or Xénia, and listings on Lokaviz and ImmoJeune

Students can apply for CAF housing aid and the Visale rent guarantee.