University of Savoy
The University of Savoy is a university in alpine eastern France, in the historical region of Savoy, with one campus in Annecy-le-Vieux (in the Haute-Savoie département) and two around Chambéry (in Savoie).
Campuses
The university was founded over a period in the 1960s and '70s. Wanting to avoid a straight choice between the two biggest towns of the Savoie/Haute-Savoie region, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study.
- The Annecy-le-Vieux campus (near Annecy) is the university's "technology institute" (IUT), and teaches engineering-related subjects and business and administration related subjects. There is either the faculty of economics and management (IMUS, Institut de Management de l'Université de Savoie).
History
- Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of Savoy (as the region was called in English then). The University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an école préparatoire, a school preparing students about to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and Turin took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563.
- The annexing of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an académie between 1860 and 1920, but not a university.
- During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy Collège Scientifique Universitaire (CSU) was created, then a Collège Littéraire Universitaire (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the Centre Universitaire de Savoie (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the Institut Universitaire Technologique (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the Université de Savoie.
Number of students at the university
| 1960 |
1992 |
1994 |
2005 |
| 300 |
3,000 |
10,400 |
12,368 |
Foreign students
After Paris I, Paris II and Strasbourg III (URS), Savoy has the fourth-highest number of Erasmus exchange students in France. The school of international relations has signed 228 conventions with universities in 82 countries, and the university takes more than 1,000 foreign students per year overall.
Photos of the university
Chambéry campus
External links
All in French unless stated.
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Chambéry
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