• Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, 1971
  

Paris Diderot University, also known as Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, is a French leading University located in Paris, France. It is one of the heirs of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris (together with Paris 6), which was one of the earliest established in Europe, founded in the mid 12th century. It adopted its current name in 1994.

The University is famous for its teaching in Science, especially in Mathematics. Indeed, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models), which is one of the centers of research of Paris Diderot University, has discovered many fundamental results of the theory of Probability.

But the University is also a place for multidisciplinary education: currently, there are 2300 educators and researchers, 1100 administrative personnel and 26,000 students studying humanities, science and medicine. That's why it always has been ranked as one of the three best French Universities.

Paris Diderot University is a founding member of the higher education and research alliance Sorbonne Paris Cité which is a Public Institution for Scientific Cooperation bringing together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes.

Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus in the 5th arrondissement, the University has moved to a new campus in the 13th arrondissement, PRG (Paris Rive Gauche). The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university has many facilities in Paris, and two in other parts of the general area. However, by 2012, the University will complete its moving and will only be in its new ultra - modern campus.

There are:

• PRG (Paris Rive Gauche) - Main campus
• Jussieu Campus - former Main campus
• Charles V - English studies
• RFF Building - Administrative offices
• Javelot - Geography, history and social science (GHSS)
• Chevaleret Building - Computer science and mathematics
• Chateau des Rentiers - Linguistics
• Garancière - Dentistry
• Xavier - Bichat - Medicine
• Lariboisière Saint - Louis - Medicine
• St Louis Hospital - Hematology
• Rue de Paradis - Medicine

Paris Diderot University offers courses in many fields, each of them are taught in a different sections of the University called UFR - Unité de Formation et de Recherche (Unity of Teaching and Research).

• UFR of Life Sciences
• UFR of Chemistry
• UFR of Computer Sciences
• UFR of Mathematics
• UFR of Physics
• UFR of Science of the Earth, Environment and Planets
• UFR of English Studies
• UFR of Cross-Cultural and Applied Languages Studies
• UFR of Geography, History and Social Sciences
• UFR of Languages and Cultures in East Asia Studies (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese)
• UFR of Letters, Art and Cinema
• UFR of Linguistics
• UFR of Human Clinical Sciences
• UFR of Social sciences
• UFR of Medicine
• UFR of Dentistry

There are:

• 1 Diplôme universitaire de technologie (called DUT)
• 27 Different bachelor's degrees (Licence)
• 32 Different master's degrees (116 specialities)
• 1 Engineering school
• 24 differents Ph.Ds (Doctorat)