The University of Burgundy is a university located in Dijon

Dijon

Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....

, France

France

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.

The University of Burgundy (uB) is situated on a large campus called Campus Montmuzard, 15 minutes by bus from the City Centre. The Humanities and Sciences are well represented on the main campus along with Law, Medicine and Literature in separate buildings.
The IUT (Institute of technology

Institute of technology

Institute of technology is a designation employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system...

) is also on the campus, providing specialist higher level diplomas in Business, Biology, Communications and Computer Science.

uB counts 10 faculties, 4 engineering schools, 3 institutes of technology offering undergraduate courses, and 2 professional institutes providing post-graduate programmes.

With numerous student societies and good support services for international

International student

According to Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development , international students are those who travel to a country different from their own for the purpose of tertiary study. Despite that, the definition of international students varies in each country in accordance to their own national...

 and disabled students, the campus is a welcoming place with numerous CROUS restaurants and canteens for students to avail of subsidised food and snacks.

Students

In 2008–2009, the number of students is about 27,000 divided into six areas, Dijon, Auxerre

Auxerre

Auxerre is a commune in the Bourgogne region in north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. It is the capital of the Yonne department.Auxerre's population today is about 45,000...

, Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; however, the department capital is the smaller city of Mâcon....

, Le Creusot

Le Creusot

Le Creusot is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom.Since the 1990s, the...

, Mâcon

Mâcon

Mâcon is a small city in central France. It is prefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department, in the region of Bourgogne, and the capital of the Mâconnais district. Mâcon is home to over 35,000 residents, called Mâconnais.-Geography:...

 and Nevers

Nevers

Nevers is a commune in – and the administrative capital of – the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne region in central France...

. The territorial areas (Dijon excepted) receive 11% of the total of students. There are about 3000 foreign students. 66% of the students are from Burgundy.

The CIEF (Centre International d'Études Françaises) allows students at all proficiency levels to immerse themselves in French language classes.

Notable faculty

• Gaston Bachelard
  Gaston Bachelard
  Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break...
  
  , French philosopher

• Louis Bachelier
  Louis Bachelier
  -External links:** Louis Bachelier webpage at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon / France. Text in French.** also from Index Funds Advisors, this discussion of...
  
  , French mathematician

• Pietro Balestra
  Pietro Balestra (economist)
  Pietro Balestra was a Swiss economist specializing in econometrics. He was born in Lugano and earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Fribourg. Balestra moved for graduate work to the University of Kansas and Stanford University. He was awarded the Ph.D...
  
  , economist

• Doug Beardsley
  Doug Beardsley
  Doug Beardsley is a Canadian poet and educator. He has collaborated with numerous other writers including Al Purdy, Theresa Kishkan and Charles Lillard....
  
  , poet

• Gaspard Auguste Brullé
  Gaspard Auguste Brullé
  Gaspard Auguste Brullé was a French entomologist.Passionnate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1829.In 1832, he participated in the foundation of the Société...
  
  , French entomologist

• Roland Carraz, former member of the french Parliament and former Secretary of state

• Lucien Febvre
  Lucien Febvre
  Lucien Febvre was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He has designed the Encyclopédie française together with Anatole de Monzie.-Biography:...
  
  , French historian

• Robert M. French
  Robert M. French
  Robert M. French is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is currently at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. He holds a Ph.D...
  
  , French Cognitive scientist

• Robert Folz
  Robert Folz
  Robert Folz was a French medievalist and specialist on the Carolingian era.Born in Metz, Folz spent his academic career at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Professor of history from 1947, he headed the History department as Dean and Professor Emeritus from 1968, and the faculty of Arts from 1978...
  
  , French historian, medievalist, former Dean
  Dean (education)
  In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
  
  

• Henri Hauser
  Henri Hauser
  Henri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...
  
  , Economist, historian, geographer

• Albert Mathiez
  Albert Mathiez
  Albert Mathiez was a French historian, known for his work on the French Revolution.He was a student of Alphonse Aulard. His La Révolution française appeared in three volumes . He wrote it as a socialist , pro-Robespierre interpretation, where Aulard had been pro-Danton...
  
  , French historian (Professor from 1919 to 1926)

• Bernard de Montmorillon, French economist, Former Dean at the Paris IX university (Dauphine)

• Louis Renault (jurist)
  Louis Renault (jurist)
  Louis Renault was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 of the Nobel Prize for Peace....
  
   (lecturer at this university, later Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   Laureate)

• Jean Richard (historian)
  Jean Richard
  Jean Richards was a French actor.born: Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, Franciadied: Paris, Francia-Filmography:*1947 : Six heures à perdre, directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte...
  
  , historian, member of the [Institut de France]], President of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...
  
   since 2002

• Albert Schatz
  Albert Schatz (law)
  Albert Schatz was a law professor at the University of Dijon and historian of 19th century individualism and Jean-Baptiste Say.His 1907 work L'individualisme économique et social first outlines a basis for the classical liberal doctrine, in France to be traced back to the Physiocrats...
  
  , jurist, historian

• Bernard Schmitt
  Bernard Schmitt
  Bernard Schmitt is a French economist, founder of the school of economic thought known as quantum economics.After its doctoral dissertation he continues his studies at the University of Cambridge , under the supervision of Piero Sraffa and Dennis Robertson...
  
  , economist, founder of the school of economic thought known as quantum economics
  Quantum economics
  Quantum Economics is a monetary economic analysis developed by French economist Bernard Schmitt , beginning in the 1950ies in Dijon and Fribourg .- Origins :The origins of quantum economics can be traced back to the works of prominent economists of the past...
  
  

• Aurélie Trouvé, President of ATTAC
  Association pour la Taxation des Transactions pour l'Aide aux Citoyens
  The Association pour la taxation des transactions financières et pour l'action citoyenne is an activist organization originally created for promoting the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions.-Background:Originally a single-issue movement demanding the...
  
   France

Notable Allumni

• Mohammed A. Aldouri
  Mohammed A. Aldouri
  Mohammed A. Aldouri was the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations from 2001 to 2003.Born in Baghdad, Aldouri attended Baghdad University and earned a bachelors degree in law in 1964. In 1973, Aldouri received a Ph.D. in public law from France’s Dijon University...
  
  , former Permanent Representative of Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
   to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (2001-2003)

• Edvard Beneš
  Edvard Beneš
  Edvard Beneš was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.- Youth :...
  
  , Former President of Czechoslovakia

• Guy Canivet
  Guy Canivet
  Guy Canivet is a French judge., he is president of the Court of Cassation and as such is the highest judge in France....
  
   jurist, president of the Court of Cassation
  Court of Cassation (France)
  The French Supreme Court of Judicature is France's court of last resort having jurisdiction over all matters triable in the judicial stream but only scope of review to determine a miscarriage of justice or certify a question of law based solely on points of law...
  
  

• Chérie Carter-Scott
  Chérie Carter-Scott
  Dr. Chérie Carter Scott born May 30, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey, is the author of several bestselling self-help and life-coaching publications....
  
  , American author

• Rachida Dati
  Rachida Dati
  Rachida Dati is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing Île-de-France. Before her election, she held the cabinet post of Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice. She was a spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy during the French presidential election of 2007...
  
  , Member of the European Parliament, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice

• Mahmoud El Materi, Former Minister (Tunisia)

• Jacques Fradin
  Jacques Fradin
  Jacques Fradin is a Medical Doctor, cognitive and behavioural therapist . He is working on developing a neuroscientific approach of the cognitive and behavioural therapy : the neurocognitive and behavioural therapy...
  
  , Medical Doctor, cognitive and behavioural therapist

• Pierre Frogier
  Pierre Frogier
  Pierre Frogier is a French politician, who was President of the Government of New Caledonia from 2001 to 2004.He was born in Nouméa....
  
  , Politician, former President of the Government of New Caledonia
  New Caledonia
  New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
  
  

• Henri-François Gautrin
  Henri-François Gautrin
  Henri-François Gautrin is a Quebec politician, teacher and physician. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Verdun in the Montreal region...
  
  , Member of National Assembly of Quebec
  National Assembly of Quebec
  The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...
  
  

• Léopold Gnininvi
  Léopold Gnininvi
  Léopold Messan Kokou Gnininvi is a Togolese politician and the Secretary-General of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples...
  
  , Totolese politician, Secretary-General of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples
  Democratic Convention of African Peoples
  The Democratic Convention of African Peoples is a political party in Togo.The CDPA boycotted the August 1993 presidential election and the February 1994 parliamentary election. Its Secretary-General, Léopold Gnininvi, was a candidate in the June 1998 presidential election, receiving less than 1%...
  
  

• Roger Guillemin
  Roger Guillemin
  Roger Charles Louis Guillemin received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.Completing his undergraduate work at the University of Burgundy, Guillemin...
  
  , French National medal of Science in 1976, Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   for medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
   in 1977

• Lawrence Gushee
  Lawrence Gushee
  Lawrence "Larry" Gushee is an American musicologist, who specializes in medieval music and early jazz.He was born in Ridley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College, Yale University, University of Dijon, and the Manhattan School of Music...
  
  , American musicologist

• Joseph Jacotot
  Joseph Jacotot
  Joseph Jacotot was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation." He was born at Dijon on the 4th of March 1770...
  
  , philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation"

• Alain Joyandet
  Alain Joyandet
  Alain Joyandet is a French politician who was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony in the government of François Fillon from March 18, 2008 to July 2010. Prior to that, he was CEO of the Société Nouvelle des Éditions Comtoises , a publisher of weekly newspapers and journals...
  
  , politician, former Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony

• Henri Jayer
  Henri Jayer
  Henri Jayer was a French vintner who is credited with introducing important innovations to Burgundian winemaking. He was particularly known for the quality of his Pinot Noir. Jayer was born in Vosne-Romanée. He attended the University of Dijon in the 1940s and earned a degree in oenology...
  
  , French vintner
  Vintner
  A vintner is a wine merchant. You pronounce it like this In some modern use, in particular in American English, the term is alsoused as a synonym for winemaker....
  
  

• H. T. Kirby-Smith
  H. T. Kirby-Smith
  H.T. or Tom Kirby-Smith is an American author and poet.- Life :H.T. Kirby-Smith grew up on the Cumberland Plateau, in Sewanee, Tennessee. He received his B.A. from Sewanee an M.A. from Harvard and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford , where he studied with Yvor Winters. He was also a...
  
  , American author and poet

• Faik Konica
  Faik Konica
  Faik Konica , born in Konitsa, was one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, Albania, became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad...
  
  , Albanian politician, stylist, critic.

• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...
  
  , French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist

• Kevin S. MacLeod, Usher of the Black Rod for the Canadian Senate

• Arnaud Montebourg
  Arnaud Montebourg
  Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008...
  
  , Deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly
  French National Assembly
  The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....
  
  

• Lawrence Clark Powell
  Lawrence Clark Powell
  Lawrence Clark Powell was a librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books....
  
  , literary critic, bibliographer and author

• Carol Remond
  Carol Remond
  Carol S. Remond is an award-winning journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.In 2005, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for her coverage of “Exposing Small-Cap Fraud.”...
  
  , award-winning journalist (Dow Jones Newswires), publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

• Aurélie Trouvé, President of ATTAC
  Association pour la Taxation des Transactions pour l'Aide aux Citoyens
  The Association pour la taxation des transactions financières et pour l'action citoyenne is an activist organization originally created for promoting the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions.-Background:Originally a single-issue movement demanding the...
  
   France

• Pierre Viette
  Pierre Viette
  Pierre E. L. Viette was a French entomologist. He attended university in Dijon during the German occupation of France in World War II and subsequently spent his entire career at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He specialized in insect systematics, especially Lepidoptera...
  
  , entomologist

• George Kennedy Young
  George Kennedy Young
  George Kennedy Young, CB, MBE, M.A. was a deputy director of MI6, and later involved in British right-wing politics. He was also a merchant banker....
  
  , deputy director of MI6

External links

• Centre International d'Études Françaises