File:P1300734 Paris V place de la Sorbonne rwk.jpg|The
Sorbonne, the university's historic main campus. It is home to the university's
arts and
humanities departments File:Paris 75005 Grande Galerie de l'Evolution 20070804.jpg|A view of the
Jardin des plantes, the campus of Sorbonne University's
Natural History Museum File:Sorbona Amphi Richelieu.jpeg|The "
Amphithéâtre Richelieu", a lecture hall of Sorbonne University File:Tour Zamanski Lune.jpg|The Zamansky Tower, located at the heart of the
Sorbonne Faculty of Science and Engineering campus File:Hôpital de la Salpêtrière.jpg|Entrance to the
Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital campus File:Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Paris 14 January 2018.jpg|Entrance to the
Sorbonne Institute of Art and Archaeology Paris 75005 Rue Saint-Jacques La Sorbonne facade 01c.jpg Cloitre Cordeliers Paris.jpg Campus universitaire de Jussieu, Paris 24 January 2016 001.jpg Salle Saint-Jacques (Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne).jpg Paris sorbonne colloque prog.jpg P1300734 Paris V place de la Sorbonne rwk.jpg|Chapel of the main Sorbonne building
Main campuses Sorbonne Sorbonne University's historical campus is in the historic central
Sorbonne building, located at 47 rue des Écoles, in the historic
Latin Quarter university campus. The building is the undivided property of the 13 successor universities of the University of Paris, managed by the
Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. Besides the monuments of the Cour d'Honneur, the
Sorbonne Chapel and the
Grand Amphithéâtre, the building houses the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Paris Rectorat, the
Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, and part of the universities
Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Paris Cité and the
École Nationale des Chartes as well as the
École Pratique des Hautes Études that are constituent schools of
PSL University. Before the 19th century, the Sorbonne occupied several buildings. The chapel was built in 1622 by the then-Provisor of the University of Paris,
Cardinal Richelieu, during the reign of
Louis XIII. In 1881, politician
Jules Ferry decided to convert the Sorbonne into one single building. Under the supervision of Pierre Greard, Chief Officer of the Education Authority of Paris, Henri-Paul Nénot constructed the current building from 1883 to 1901 that reflects a basic architectural uniformity. The integration of the chapel into the whole was also Nénot's work with the construction of a
cour d'honneur. The Sorbonne building is generally reserved for undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students in certain academic disciplines. Only students in Semitic studies, regardless of level, take all their classes at the Sorbonne campus. The
Sorbonne Library is an inter-university library of the
Panthéon-Sorbonne University,
Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Sorbonne University,
Paris Cité University, under the administration of
Panthéon-Sorbonne. It is open exclusively to undergraduate students in their third year and graduate students. With the former archives of the now-defunct University of Paris, 2,500,000 books, 400,000 of them ancient, 2,500 historical manuscripts, 18,000 doctoral dissertation papers, 17,750 past and current French and international periodicals and 7,100 historical printing plates, the Sorbonne Library is the largest university library in Paris and was entirely refurbished in 2013. The
Sorbonne University Library's Arts and Humanities Department (French:
Pôle Lettres de la Bibliothèque de Sorbonne Université), part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, offers its students and teaching staff access to 18 libraries and thematic collections. The catalog includes 600,000 books, 350,000 e-books, 60,000 issues of online periodicals and 165 databases.
Pierre and Marie Curie (formerly Jussieu) The largest of Sorbonne University's campuses is
Jussieu Campus, officially named "Pierre and Marie Curie Campus". It houses the
Sorbonne University Faculty of Science and Engineering and its
Sorbonne Polytechnic School, Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne Institute for Environmental Transition, the Institute of Health Engineering (IUIS) and the Institute of Computing and Data Sciences (ISCD). The first buildings are from 1957. The main part of the campus, the "''Grill d'Albert''", was built in 1964, and was completely refurbished from 1996 to 2016. Within the
Sorbonne University Library, it houses 6 university libraries, including an important research library in mathematics and
computer science.
Pitié-Salpêtrière The Pitié-Salpêtrière Campus is home to Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences and its Department of Medical Studies. It is located at the
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and University Center (CHU), founded in 1657 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. All undergraduate and graduate medical students study on this campus. Postgraduate courses are held at the
Cordeliers Convent on the
Latin Quarter campus. The hospital campus also houses the Sorbonne Health Simulation Department, the Paris Brain Institute and the Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (IHU-ICAN). The campus is also home to the
AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group.
Secondary campuses Clignancourt and Malesherbes Two other campuses are the Clignancourt and Malesherbes centers of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in Philosophy, History, Geography,
Musicology, English and Spanish take their classes at the Clignancourt center. The
Clignancourt Library contains 78,000 works, 210 French and international periodicals and 800 educational DVDs. Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in
French literature, French language,
Latin, and
Ancient Greek take their classes at the Malesherbes center. All undergraduate students in these academic disciplines study in the central Sorbonne building in their third year. Undergraduate and graduate students in
German studies,
Slavic studies,
Italic studies and
Romanian studies, regardless of level, take all of their classes at the Malesherbes center. The Malesherbes center also hosts three research centers in
Italian culture, the cultures and literature of central Europe and the Balkans and the Germanic, Nordic and Dutch centers. The
Malesherbes Library contains 200,000 works specializing in the study of foreign languages and cultures and 1,200 past and current French and international periodicals. More than 50,000 doctoral dissertations are available for public viewing.
Michelet Undergraduate
Art History and
Archeology students of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities take their classes at the ''Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie'', located at the main entrance of the
Jardin du Luxembourg. Constructed by architect Paul Bigot between 1925 and 1930, the Mesopotamian-style building was classified as a national historic building in 1996. It hosts the
Michelet Library that contains 100,000 volumes of work on art history and archeology with 100 French and international periodicals. Only 10,000 of the art history and archeology works are open to students, the others requiring special authorization of usage. Graduate Art History and Archeology students take their courses at the Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art in the Galerie Colbert, a partnered national institution of the university.
Maison de la Recherche The
Maison de la Recherche campus is the central building for doctoral studies that hosts the history and geography departments. It houses the
Serpente Library that has 55,000 works and 292 past and current French and international periodicals. All doctoral dissertations since 1 January 1986 have been stored at the Serpente Library.
Other campuses in Paris Both the ''Institut d'Urbanisme et d'Aménagement
and the Institut d'Études Hispaniques
in the Latin Quarter campus host third year and graduate students of Geography and Iberian and Latin American studies. The Marcel Bataillon Library houses the Institut d'Études Hispaniques'
collection of 25,000 works on Iberian and Latin-American culture. Catalan studies take place at the Centre d'Études Catalanes'' in the
Marais. The Sorbonne University also includes the Saint-Antoine Campus for the study of medicine ; the
Cordeliers Convent, Curie and Raspail campuses for sciences studies.
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi An exclusive international agreement between Sorbonne and the government of
Abu Dhabi was signed on 19 February 2006, starting plans to bring Sorbonne University to Abu Dhabi. Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (SUAD) was established on 30 May 2008 on Reem Island by a decree of the ruler of Abu Dhabi of the
United Arab Emirates. All programs are taught in the French language except for the Bachelor of Physics and most of the masters programmes, that are taught in English . An intensive French language programme is offered for one or two-year(s) to students who do not meet the French language requirement for registration. The establishment of the university demonstrates the keenness of Abu Dhabi to create an international hub in culture and education, having also signed a contract with the
Louvre in 2007 to create the
Louvre Abu Dhabi, and with
New York University in 2007 to create
New York University Abu Dhabi. SUAD is jointly governed by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and by SUAD's board of trustees, with six members, three of whom are appointed by the home Sorbonne University and the other three appointed by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. The president of SUAD is the president of Sorbonne University in Paris, currently Prof Nathalie Drach-Temam. Academic programmes are offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the social sciences, humanities, law and sciences. == Academics and rankings ==