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Sorbonne University tops our list of 71 Bachelor's universities in France at #63 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (QS World #187) and Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (Toulouse III) (QS World #580) complete the top three. Across the whole list there are 332 courses to choose from.
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3 of these universities hold a QS World position, from #63 (Sorbonne University) to #580 (Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (Toulouse III)); they are listed first, in that order. The rest are ordered by research impact. Sorbonne University has the largest research record in this group, with 37,965,256 citations and an h-index of 1,502. 17 universities have neither a QS position nor a research record yet and appear at the end, marked "Not yet ranked".
The split is 71 public to 0 private institutions. By location, Île-de-France (1) account for the most of those we can place. The oldest is Sorbonne University, founded in 2018. Sorbonne University is the largest, with 44,000 students.
The most common subjects are Engineering (89), Business & Management (66), Computer Science & IT (53) and Social Sciences & Psychology (15). The usual length is 4 years and 3 years. 96% are full-time. Start dates lean to Fall (100% of courses with a stated intake) and Spring (98% of courses with a stated intake). Université Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris VIII) offers the widest choice, with 46 of these courses.
Sorbonne University (QS World #63), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (QS World #187) and Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (Toulouse III) (QS World #580) lead this list. QS World positions come first; the rest are ranked by research impact.
71 public and 0 private universities are on this list.
Most listed courses run 4 years, with 3 years the next most common.
Fall is the main intake — 100% of courses with a stated start date begin then, and Spring is the second.
Université Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris VIII), with 46, ahead of Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (20).
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