University of the Mediterranean

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University of the Mediterranean
Aix-Marseille II

Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille II
Type	Public
Active	22 May 1969 (22 May 1969)–1 January 2012 (1 January 2012)
President	Yvon Berland
Students	24,000
Location	Aix-en-Provence, Gap and Marseille ,  France
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20100119053821/http://www.univmed.fr/ (in French)

The University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II was a French university in the Academy of Aix and Marseille. Historically, it was part of the University of Aix-Marseille based across the communes of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in southern France. It had 24,000 students. On 1 January 2012 it merged with the University of Provence and Paul Cézanne University to become Aix-Marseille University, the youngest, but also the largest in terms of students, budgets and staff in France.^{[citation needed]}