About Université de Lorraine

With more than 3,900 teaching and research staff and approximately 60,000 students, including nearly 10,000 foreign students, the Université de Lorraine (UL) is one of France’s largest multidisciplinary universities. UL is also a major player in life-long learning in France, with about 3900 registered learners and more than 1500 degrees granted. Besides, doctoral training represents about 1,800 PhD students distributed in 8 graduate schools for nearly 400 theses per year. Its location in the heart of Europe, with borders on three European member states (Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg) offers to UL a privileged position for strong international partnerships. In particular, the Université de Lorraine is a member of the cross-border university network of the international region associating Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Luxembourg and Wallonia, and involving 6 major universities. The cross-border network takes advantage of the proximity of several foreign universities to encourage and facilitate the mobility of the university community, network researchers and increase the influence of the region in Europe.