This league table reveals the top universities in France, according to the trusted Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025. This year, 50 French institutions are counted among the top ...

Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Paris, France – Tensions are rising between the French state and students at top universities who are staging pro-Palestine ...

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that Muslim headscarves should be banned in universities in comments that have sparked an immediate backlash from some within his own party. In a lengthy ...

France’s minister for higher education says 10,000 new university places will be created to cope with the huge demand after record numbers of students passed the Bac exam this year, qualifying them ...

Students from the University of Lyon-2 participate in a workshop by The Climate Fresk in Lyon, on September 15, 2021. NICOLAS LIPONNE / HANS LUCAS Almost 55 years ago, in May 1968, students rebelled ...

University hazing rituals – once indelibly associated with Oxbridge drinking societies and US fraternity houses – are no longer exclusively an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, with French universities ...

[The appended letter is one of a series which we hope to publish in consecutive numbers of the Magenta. They are written by a Frenchman who has had personal experience with the system of which he ...