Paris-Saclay University

Paris-Saclay University

Université Paris-Saclay
Former name	University of Paris Sud XI Paris Faculty of Sciences in Orsay
Type	Public research university
Established	c. 1150 University of Paris 1956 University of Paris in Orsay 1971 Paris-Sud University 2014 As a community[1] 2019 Replaces Paris-Sud University
Chancellor	Christophe Kerrero (Chancellor of the universities of Paris)
President	Estelle Iacona[2]
Academic staff	10,500[3]
Students	60,000[3]
Undergraduates	5,400
Postgraduates	23,300
Doctoral students	6,000
Location	Orsay, Palaiseau, Paris, Évry, Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , Île-de-France , France 48°42′42″N 2°10′17″E / 48.7117343°N 2.1712888°E / 48.7117343; 2.1712888
Campus	Campus of Saclay (Orsay - Gif), Campus of Versailles, Campus of Évry , Campus of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Campus of Paris
Website	universite-paris-saclay.fr

Paris-Saclay University (French: Université Paris-Saclay) is a combined technological research institute and public research university in Paris, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical grandes écoles, as well as several technological institutes, engineering schools, and research facilities; giving it fifteen constituent colleges with over 48,000 students combined.^[4]

With the merger, the French government has explicitly voiced their wish to rival top American technological research institutes, such as the MIT.^[5][6][7] The university has over 275 laboratories in particle physics,^[8] nuclear physics,^[9][10] astrophysics,^[11] atomic physics and molecular physics,^[12] condensed matter physics,^[13] theoretical physics,^[14] electronics, nanoscience and nanotechnology.^[15] It is part of the larger Paris-Saclay cluster, which is a research-intensive academic campus encompassing Paris-Saclay University, the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, combined with a business cluster for high-technology corporations.^[16][17] Paris-Saclay notably also includes the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where many contributions to the development of modern mathematics have been made, amongst them modern algebraic geometry and catastrophe theory.^[18]

As of 2021, 11 Fields Medalists and 4 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university and its associated research institutes.^[19]