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University of Bordeaux

The University of Bordeaux (French: Université de Bordeaux) is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Not to be confused with Bordeaux Montaigne University.

Motto

Sit lumine illustrant millennii.
(French: Que la lumière illumine les millénaires) (English: May the light illuminate the millennia)

Public

1441 (1441) (initial formation)

AUF, EUA

€892 million

Dean Lewis

6,000 including 3,200 professors[1]

54,000[2]

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
,
France

u-bordeaux.fr

It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence.[3] There are also several smaller teaching sites in various other towns in the region, including in Bayonne.


The University of Bordeaux counts more than 50,000 students, over 6,000 of which are international.[4]


It is a member of the ComUE d'Aquitaine university group.[5]

University rankings

201-300 (2023)

361 (2021)

465 (2024)

351-400 (2024)

290 (2023)

(c. 1569–c. 1644), Irish historian

Geoffrey Keating

(1859–1928), French scholar of public law

Léon Duguit

(1875–1949), French historian and politician

Henri Moysset

(1912–1994), French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor

Jacques Ellul

(1918–1994), British historian and university lecturer

James Joll

(1932–2019), Peruvian anthropologist and sociologist

Julio Cotler

(b. 1936), Congolese Egyptologist

Théophile Obenga

(b. 1937), American military historian

Spencer C. Tucker

(b. 1938), American political philosopher

Charles Butterworth

(b. 1939), Moroccan–American anthropologist and Amazigh activist

Helene Hagan

(b. 1939), French economist and professor

Pascal Salin

(b. 1946), French mathematician

Marie-France Vignéras

(b. 1949), Filipino Sinologist

Alfredo Co

(b. 1954), Nigerian professor and academic administrator

Idowu Bantale Omole

(1928–2017), Algerian linguist

Abderrahmane Hadj-Salah

(b. 1936), professor of chemical and physical science at the University of Bordeaux

Roger Naslain

(b. 1933), French mathematician

Guy Brousseau

List of medieval universities

École nationale supérieure des sciences agronomiques de Bordeaux Aquitaine

Routledge, 2013, pp. 429–431.

International Dictionary of University Histories