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| Motto | Innovation through the dialogue between knowledge fields |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2012 (1572) |
| Budget | €682 million (2022) |
| President | Pierre Mutzenhardt |
Academic staff | 4,000 |
Administrative staff | 3,000 |
| Students | 62,000 |
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| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Black, Yellow and White[1] |
| Affiliations | Campus Europae, Grands établissements, EPSCP |
| Website | www |
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The University of Lorraine (French: Université de Lorraine), abbreviated as UL, is a public research university based in Lorraine, Grand Est region, France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, Paul Verlaine University – Metz and the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL). It aimed to unify the main colleges of the Lorraine region. The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of a Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) and was completed in 2012.
The university has 51 campus sites, over the Lorraine region, the main ones are around Nancy and Metz. The other sites are in the towns of Epinal, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Bar-Le-Duc, Lunéville, Thionville-Yutz, Longwy, Forbach, Saint-Avold, Sarreguemines.
The University of Lorraine has over 62,000 students (10,000 international students, mostly from Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, China, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire) and 7,000 staff.
- ^ "Charte graphique de l'université de Lorraine" (PDF). University of Lorraine.