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The University of Toulouse is a consortium of universities and other institutions of higher education and research, named after one of the earliest universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 established in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 in 1229, and including the successor universities to that earlier university. This article describes the institutions that have been called the University of Toulouse.

History
The formation of the University of Toulouse
Toulouse

Toulouse is a commune of France in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea....
 was imposed on Count Raymond VII
Raymond VII of Toulouse

Raymond VII of Saint-Gilles was Counts of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death.He was the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Joan of England, Queen of Sicily....
 as a part of the Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris (1229)

The Treaty of Paris was signed on April 12, 1229 between Raymond VII of Toulouse and Louis IX of France. The agreement officially ended the Albigensian Crusade in which Raymond conceded defeat to Louis IX....
 in 1229 ending the crusade against the Albigensians
Albigensian Crusade

The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc....
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The University of Toulouse is a consortium of universities and other institutions of higher education and research, named after one of the earliest universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 established in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 in 1229, and including the successor universities to that earlier university. This article describes the institutions that have been called the University of Toulouse.

History


The formation of the University of Toulouse
Toulouse

Toulouse is a commune of France in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea....
 was imposed on Count Raymond VII
Raymond VII of Toulouse

Raymond VII of Saint-Gilles was Counts of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death.He was the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Joan of England, Queen of Sicily....
 as a part of the Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris (1229)

The Treaty of Paris was signed on April 12, 1229 between Raymond VII of Toulouse and Louis IX of France. The agreement officially ended the Albigensian Crusade in which Raymond conceded defeat to Louis IX....
 in 1229 ending the crusade against the Albigensians
Albigensian Crusade

The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc....
. As he was suspected of sympathizing with the heretics, Raymond VII had to finance the teaching of theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
. Bishop Foulques de Toulouse
Folquet de Marselha

Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille....
 was among the founders of the University. Among its first lecturers were: Jean de Garlande
Johannes de Garlandia (philologist)

Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a Philology and university teacher. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but he probably lived from about 1190 to about 1270....
,Roland of Cremona
Roland of Cremona

Roland of Cremona was a Dominican theologian.He joined the Dominican order at Bologna in 1219. He was a lecturer at the medieval University of Toulouse from its foundation in 1229, and preached against the Cathars in the city....
. Other faculties (law, medicine) were added later. Initially, the University was located in the center of the city, together with the ancestors of student residences, the colleges. All provincial universities of France (including that of Toulouse) were suppressed in 1793. There was no university in Toulouse until the end of the 19th century.

In 1969, the University of Toulouse split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. The present-day University of Toulouse was founded on 27 March 2007. The University of Toulouse has more than 120,000 students, making Toulouse the second-largest university city in France (after Paris
University of Paris

The historic University of Paris first appeared in the 12th century. In 1970 it was reorganized as 13 autonomous university . The university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne after the collegiate institution founded about 1257 by Robert de Sorbon....
). It is a consortium consisting of:

  • University of Toulouse I: Social Sciences
  • University of Toulouse II: Le Mirail
    University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail

    Universit? Toulouse II or University of Toulouse II is one of 3 universities in Toulouse, France.The campus, situated in Toulouse's grand architectural project of the 1960s, Le Mirail, was conceived and built by the team of architects Candilia, Josic, Woods....
  • University of Toulouse III: Paul Sabatier
    Paul Sabatier University

    Paul Sabatier University is a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse.Founded in 1229, the University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe....
  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse - INSA
    INSA

    The Institut National des Sciences Appliqu?es is a grande ?cole - a French engineering university.There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse....
  • Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT
  • Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace


Campus


Université Toulouse I - L'Arsenal

  • Law & Business
    • Law
      LAW

      LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
    • Accounting
    • Business
      Business school

      A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
    • Economics
      Economics

      File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
    • Political Science
      Politics

      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
       (Sciences-po Toulouse
      Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse

      The Institut d'?tudes politiques de Toulouse or IEP Toulouse is an Institute d?Etudes Politiques based in Toulouse, France.This political science grande ?cole was set up in 1948, and since 2004 the courses have been 5 years long....
      )


This has since been renamed Toulouse 1 University Social Sciences, or UT1.

Université Toulouse II - Le Mirail

  • Arts & Literature
    • Arts
      ARts

      aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is most famous for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
    • Archeology
    • History
      HIStory

      HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
    • Literature
      Literature

      Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
    • Music
      Music

      Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
    • Geography
      Geography

      Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
    • Philosophy
      Philosophy

      Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
    • Linguistics
      Linguistics

      Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
    • Psychology
      Psychology

      Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
    • Sociology
      Sociology

      Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....


Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

  • Technology & Science
    • Science
      Science

      In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
    • Physics
      Physics

      Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
    • Mathematics
      Mathematics

      Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
    • Computer science
      Computer science

      Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
    • Biology
      Biology

      Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
    • Technology
      Technology

      Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
    • Medicine
      Medical school

      A medical school is a tertiary educational institution?or part of such an institution?that teaches medicine.In addition to a medical degree program, some medical schools offer programs leading to a Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy , or other post-secondary education....
    • Dentistry
      Dentistry

      Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the mouth, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body....


Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse - INSA
  • Science & Engineering
    • Computer Science
      Computer science

      Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
    • Network
      Network

      Network may refer to:* Network analysis * Network diagram, a diagram of a network* Network model, a database model* Network , a type of digraph in graph theory...
       and Telecommunication
      Telecommunication

      Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
    • Industrial
      Industry

      An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
       Systems
    • Automatics
      Automatics

      Automatics are an England punk rock and New Wave music band that was formed by Dave Philp in 1976 after a brief stint as the singer with The Boys ....
      , Electronics
      Electronics

      Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
    • Biochemistry
      Biochemistry

      Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
    • Civil Engineering
      Civil engineering

      Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
    • Mathematics
      Mathematics

      Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
       and Modeling
    • Mechanics
      Mechanics

      Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behaviour of physical body when subjected to forces or Displacement , and the subsequent effect of the bodies on their environment....
    • Physics
      Physics

      Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....


Present and past faculty include

  • Raymond Aron
    Raymond Aron

    Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known to the broad public for his skeptical analyses of the post-war vogue in France for leftist ideologies that largely took their inspiration from a Marxism tradition....
  • Paul Fauconnet
    Paul Fauconnet

    Paul Fauconnet was a France sociology who is best known as a contributor to the Annee Sociologique.Fauconnet agr?gation in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895....
  • Jean Jaurès
    Jean Jaurès

    Jean L?on Jaur?s was a French Socialism leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first Social Democracy, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party , which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France....
  • Pierre Laromiguière
    Pierre Laromiguière

    Pierre Laromigui?re was a France philosopher.He was born at Livignac, and died in Paris, France. As professor of philosophy at the University of Toulouse, he was unsuccessful and incurred the displeasure of the French parliament by his thesis on the rights of property in connection with taxation....
  • Paul Seabright
    Paul Seabright

    Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, and of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was lecturer and then Reader until 2001, he is a contributor to the London Review of Books....
  • Adrianus Turnebus
    Adrianus Turnebus

    Adrianus Turnebus was a France classical scholar....
  • Jean-Jacques Laffont
    Jean-Jacques Laffont

    Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a France economist specializing in public economics and information theory. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D....
  • Jean Tirole
    Jean Tirole

    Jean Marcel Tirole is a France professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology....
  • Maurice Hauriou


See also

  • Toulouse 1 University Social Sciences
  • University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail
    University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail

    Universit? Toulouse II or University of Toulouse II is one of 3 universities in Toulouse, France.The campus, situated in Toulouse's grand architectural project of the 1960s, Le Mirail, was conceived and built by the team of architects Candilia, Josic, Woods....
  • Paul Sabatier University
    Paul Sabatier University

    Paul Sabatier University is a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse.Founded in 1229, the University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe....
  • IEP de Toulouse
    Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse

    The Institut d'?tudes politiques de Toulouse or IEP Toulouse is an Institute d?Etudes Politiques based in Toulouse, France.This political science grande ?cole was set up in 1948, and since 2004 the courses have been 5 years long....
  • List of public universities in France by academy
  • Medieval university
    Medieval university

    Medieval university is such an institution of higher learning which was established during Gothic art period and is a corporation.The first Europe medieval institutions generally considered to be University were established in Italy, France, and England in the late 11th and the 12th centuries for the study of Liberal arts, law, medicine, a...


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