University of Lille Nord de France

University of Lille Nord de France
Université Lille Nord de France
Type Public
Established 2009
Endowment €550 M
President Philippe Rollet
Academic staff
4,600
Administrative staff
3200
Students 110,000
Postgraduates 12,600
3,000
Location Lille, France
Campus Urban
Affiliations EUA
Utrecht Network
Compostela
IMCC-ESDP
Website www.pres-ulnf.fr

The University of Lille Nord de France (French: Université Lille Nord de France) is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses centred in Lille, France. It includes a doctoral college that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.

With more than one hundred thousand students, it is one of the five largest university federations in France.

History

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the university was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then as Université de Lille with faculty expansion in the Lille region from mid-19th century onwards.[1]

The university expanded into several campus in Lille region at the end of the 20th century and built itself as the Université Lille Nord de France.

Multiple site campus

University of Lille Nord de France is organised over several clusters of campuses:

Doctoral school and research laboratories

139 research labs and institutes are associated to the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais.

Altogether, the university research labs own an active portfolio of more than 170 invention patent families.[2] (Approximately 411 results found for Univ Lille in the EPO worldwide patent database in mid-2008)

Notable alumni and faculty

Student and researcher mobility

University institutes and research labs promote student and researchers mobility and cooperate in several university networks :

References

  1. (French) Histoire de l'université de Lille
  2. Lille Univ patent portfolio
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