 The Jussieu campus, which hosts the faculty's head office. | |
Former names | Faculty of Science of the University of Paris (1808–1970) Pierre and Marie Curie University, UPMC (1970–2017) Faculty of Science and Engineering of Sorbonne University (2017–) |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1808 |
Parent institution | Sorbonne University |
| Dean | Pr. Frédérique Peronnet |
| Students | 22,000 (2,500 PhD)[1] |
| Location | Paris , , France |
| Campus | Urban, 35 acres (14 ha) |
| Website | sciences |
The Sorbonne Faculty of Science and Engineering is the second largest of Sorbonne University's three major faculties, in terms of the number of students enrolled. Formed in 1808 as the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris, it became an autonomous university between 1970 and 2017 under the name of the Pierre and Marie Curie University, before becoming a faculty again when it joined the new Sorbonne University. Marie Curie and Pierre Curie are considered the founders of the modern-day Faculty of Science and Engineering of Sorbonne University.
It has been located on the Jussieu Campus since 1956, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, bordering the historic Latin Quarter to the west. It also has four satellite campuses in various regions of France: Roscoff in Brittany, Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrenees and Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Alpes Maritimes.
Alongside the Faculty of Science of the Paris Cité University (9,000 students) and the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences (10,000 students), it is one of the three inheritors of the former Faculty of Science of the University of Paris, with almost 22,000 students and one of the largest science schools in France and Europe.[2][3]
The faculty's programs and research cover the fields of biology, earth, environmental and climate sciences, life sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, electronics, computer science, mechanics and engineering. In 2024, the faculty's departments rank the Sorbonne 4th worldwide in mathematics and oceanography, and 12th worldwide in earth sciences according to the Shanghai ranking.[4]
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