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The Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail enjoys a long humanistic tradition. The University which was founded in 1229, earned worldwide fame in the sixteenth century. In 1968 it moved from downtown Toulouse; in 1971 it moved into its present quarters in the new Mirail district.
- The Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail offers degrees (from the first
undergraduate degree to the doctorate) in:
- Literature
- Arts
- Languages
- Humanities
- Social Sciences
- It offers a more limited range of programs in the sciences and technology.
- Terminal degree programs are available at the undergraduate and
Master's levels and through continuing education.
The major career oriented fields include:
- Audiovisual Communication
- Archives and Documentation
- Hotel Management and Tourism
- Translation and Interpreting
- Regional Planning
- Sociology
- Applied Mathematics
- Historic Preservation
- Psychology
A department of French as a foreign language helps non-French speaking students to integrate quickly into academic life.
One of France's most advanced distance-learning services enables nonresident students to earn degrees up to the Licence level in most fields (and to the maîtrise in some fields).
The university's three doctoral programs are in:
- Letters, languages, and Cultures
- Time, space, societies, cultures
- Behavior, language, education, socialization, and cognition.
Each year some 100 doctoral candidates (a quarter of whom come from outside France) defend their theses at the university, capping a program of graduate study that begins with 22 different DEA (Diplômes d'Etudes Approfondies) programs.
Research activities at the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail are organized around 43 teams. The fields emphasized by the university are archaeology and history, linguistics, labor studies, and regional research.
The university has good collection of books and study materials for the students in the university library.
For more information contact:
Address:
31058 Toulouse cedex 9
France
Website: www.univ-tlse.fr
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