The College of Paris 06 is the best university in France according to the Academic Rating of World Universities (ARWU). The ARWU is released by the Institute of Larger Schooling at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a number of indicators of tutorial or study performance are utilised to build the rating, these incorporate highly cited scientists, content articles indexed in significant quotation indices and staff winning Nobel Prizes.

The Best-five universities in France
There are twenty-a few French universities in the Word’s Top-five hundred universities (2008). The Best-5 universities in France are: one. University of Paris six (rated forty second in the entire world) two. College of Paris eleven (rated forty ninth) three. Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (73rd) 4. University of Paris 7 (101-151) and College of Strasbourg(one hundred and one-151). The College of Paris six has been the best university in France because 2003, when the ARWU was 1st revealed.

French Universities
Universities in France are predominantly community establishments. Apparently, the ideal pupils attend the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ [‘Grand Schools’] (a higher schooling establishment outside the mainstream framework of the community universities method). Whilst the universities are open to all college students who end their higher school training (with a ‘Baccalauréat’), the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ require an added entrance test which is very competitive.

In comparison to French universities, the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ are relatively modest institutions. For case in point, the University of Paris 6 (ranked 42rd in the entire world) has thirty,000 college students even though the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (ranked 73rd in the globe) only has 2,000 pupils.

In มหาวิทยาลัย to other OECD nations around the world, France has an average density of top universities (.4 universities per one million inhabitants in France in comparison to .four for OECD nations as a whole. It is placing to note that 9 out of the 23 universities (39%) that show up in the ARWU are located in Paris.

The University of Paris
The historic University of Paris was established in the mid 12th century, In 1970 it was reorganized as thirteen autonomous universities (College of Paris I-XIII). The university is usually referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne. The universities are now basically independent of each other. Despite this link, and the historic ties, there is no College of Paris program that binds the universities at an academic stage.