Université Paris Diderot
Higher EducationÎle-de-France, France1001-5000 Employees
Université Paris Diderot is a major higher education institution in Paris, Île-de-France, focused on research-intensive and interdisciplinary study. It structures education and research around five domains: Arts, lettres et langues; Droit, économie, gestion; Sciences humaines et sociales; Sciences, technologie, santé; and Médecine, odontologie. Its central Paris campus near the Bibliothèque nationale de France provides an expansive academic environment, with a library comparable to those of leading universities worldwide, and it offers diverse programs delivered with innovative pedagogy and broad professional pathways in public and private sectors; it also runs full curricula in medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy and midwifery. The university supports a sizable research ecosystem, comprising more than 3,000 researchers, including around 1,200 teacher-researchers, with about 2,300 doctoral candidates per year and roughly 500 theses and 80 HDR annually, across 89 laboratories in three domains: humanities, sciences, and health. It sustains extensive international engagement and partnerships with industry, evidenced by 309 worldwide cooperation agreements and 388 Erasmus exchanges with 190 European universities, hosting more than 5,857 international students and inviting about 125 international faculty or researchers each year.