Welcome to UPMF

Located in an outstanding geographical area in the middle of the French Alps, Pierre Mendès France University of Grenoble welcomes every year more than 19,000 students, among whom 3 000 are foreign students. The University offers a wide range of teaching programs in Social and Human Sciences such as Economy, Law, Government, Management, History, Art History, Philosophy, Town Planning, Psychology, Sociology, Education sciences, Musicology, Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences....
The University consists in a number of Training and Research Units, Schools and Institutes (in French: UFRs), where these various subjects are proposed.

Grenoble, the largest urban area in the French Alps, boasts a unique mountain setting, and through the centuries has made its mark as a pioneering city open to the world. Out of this tremendous human melting-pot has emerged an economy that draws its strength from close ties between industry, university and research. Grenoble is the leading research centre in France outside the Paris area.