Jussieu University
| UPMC | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Active | 1 January 1971–31 December 2017 |
| Budget | 400 million euros |
| President | Jean Chambaz |
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Academic staff
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7,000 |
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Administrative staff
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10,640 |
| Students | 32,000 |
| Location |
Paris, France 48°50′50″N 2°21′23″E / 48.847222°N 2.356389°ECoordinates: 48°50′50″N 2°21′23″E / 48.847222°N 2.356389°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | University of Paris VI |
| Affiliations | Sorbonne University,CNRS,LERU, EUA |
| Website | www.upmc.fr |
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| University rankings | |
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| Global | |
| ARWU World | 39 |
| Times World | 121 |
| QS World | 141 |
UPMC, formerly Pierre and Marie Curie University (French: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie) or also known as Paris VI, is a public research university in Paris, France.
It took over the faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), which ceased to exist following student protest in May 1968. It is a member of the Sorbonne University Group and will merge into the Sorbonne University, re-creation of the University of Paris, 1 January 2018.
The university is located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
UPMC is the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of research with scope and achievements at the highest level, as demonstrated by the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers, and the many international partnerships it maintains across all five continents. Several university rankings have regularly put UPMC at the 1st place in France, and it has been ranked as one of the top universities in the world. The ARWU (2014) has ranked UPMC as the 1st in France, 6th in Europe and 35th in the world and also 4th in field of mathematics, 25th in field of physics, 14th in field of natural sciences and 32nd in field of engineering, technology and computer science.
It has more than 125 laboratories, most of them in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of its most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (shared with University Paris-Diderot) and the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared with École Normale Supérieure).
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