Higher education and research. The "University of Grenoble" brings together academic institutions with different disciplinary specialties:

• Science and medicine
• Social sciences and humanities
• Language, communication, arts and letters
• Savoye University (located in Chambéry)
• Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique: technology
• Grenoble SciencePo: political sciences

The University of Grenoble in short:

• 45 000 students
• 3000 teachers and teacher-researchers and 2800 administrative and technical staff
• 23 faculties, schools or institutes
• 80 laboratories
• 4 000 PhD students in 14 doctoral schools
• 7,200 foreign students per year (180 different nationalities)
• 450 million euros of budget per year
• 500,000 m2 of real estate assets on 12 sites spread over 6 departments
• A 175-hectare landscaped campus