Established in 1409, the University of Aix-Marseille formally incorporated as Université d'Aix-Marseille is a public research university which is located in the Provence region of southern France. The University of Aix-Marseille has about 80,000 students, including 10,000 international students from 128 different countries. The University of Aix-Marseille offers a range of vocational courses including 600-degree courses in fields as varied as Social Sciences, Health, sports, and Economics. The University of Aix-Marseille has 2,448 doctoral students.
The University of Aix-Marseille has 12.5% of international students in the university. The University of Aix-Marseille has five major divisions, structured into 19 faculties, schools, and institutes including the Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences Division the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences, Mediterranean Social Science Center and Training Center for Music Facilitators. The Law and Political Science Division includes the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Institute for Public Administration, and Local Governance.
Aware of the environmental issues, the University of Aix-Marseille has committed to developing a sustainable development strategy. The university promotes cross-disciplinary and educational projects which integrate notions of sustainable development along with the social responsibility of the students of the university through the SD in TRANS’. The commitment of the university is valued through a bonus which is applied to the final average.
- The University is one of the youngest universities in France and is the largest in terms of the student body, faculty and staff, and the budget in the whole of the French-speaking world. These factors combined with the results achieved in teaching and research make the University of Aix-Marseille a top-class higher education and research institution.
- University of Aix-Marseille scholarships has various exchange programs through partnerships with 120 different universities. The University welcomes 200 foreign students. The university has more than 500 international agreements and the university participates in the creation of the European area of education and the development of mobility. Policy in the direction of Asian countries has led to an increase in the enrollments of international students.
- University of Aix-Marseille scholarships include the TIGER Master Excellence Scholarships awarded under the selection amounting to 10,000 EUR ( INR 8,03,247).