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{{Short description|Public university based in northern France}}
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| name                   = University of Picardy Jules Verne
| native_name            = Université de Picardie Jules Verne
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| caption                = La citadelle d’Amiens
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| established            = 1970
| type                   = [[Public university|Public]]
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| faculty                = 1,200 professors and researchers<ref>{{cite journal |title=Projet de sites : Picardie Universités |page=2 |url=https://www.u-picardie.fr/apiu/upload/Projet_de_site_Picardie.pdf |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref>
| president              = Mohammed Benlahsen
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| students               = 32,000<ref>{{cite web |title=L'UPJV : université de territoire ouverte sur le monde |url=https://www.u-picardie.fr/l-universite/presentation/decouverte/ |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref>
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| city                   = [[Amiens]]; [[Beauvais]]; [[Cuffies]]-[[Soissons]]; [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne|Saint-Quentin]]; [[Creil]]; [[Laon]]
| state                  = [[Hauts-de-France]]
| country                = [[France]]
| campus                 = [[Urban area|Urban]]
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| affiliations           = [[Agence universitaire de la Francophonie|AUF]], [[University of Lille Nord de France|COMUE Lille Nord de France]], [[European University Association|EUA]]
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| website                = [https://www.u-picardie.fr/ U-picardie.fr]
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The '''University of Picardy Jules Verne''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Université de Picardie Jules Verne''; '''UPJV''') is a [[List of universities and colleges in France|public university]] located in the former [[Picardy]] region of France (now part of [[Hauts-de-France]]).
It consists of several campuses located in the towns of [[Amiens]], [[Beauvais]], [[Cuffies]], [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne|Saint-Quentin]], [[Creil]], and [[Laon]].
The university was part of the [[University of Lille Nord de France]] group.
== History ==
The University of Picardy Jules Verne was established in 1970 as a successor to the former University of Amiens. It was initially simply called the University of Picardy during its first two decades, until 1991 when writer [[Jules Verne]]'s named was added.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past to present |url=https://www.u-picardie.fr/university/past-to-present/past-to-present-109215.kjsp |publisher=Université de Picardie Jules Verne |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref> Verne spent much of his life in [[Amiens]]. What started as a small university now has over 30,000 students across all campuses. The university celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019-2020.
== Organisation  ==
The university is organised into five main faculties or groupings each with a number of schools or institutes:
===Arts, Literature, Languages===
* UFR Arts
* UFR Languages and foreign cultures
* UFR Literature
===Law, Economics, Management===
* UFR Law and Political Science
* UFR Economics and Management
* Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE)
* [[IPAG Business School|Institut de Préparation à l'Administration Générale]] (IPAG)
===ESPE, Antenne et IUT===
* Antenne Universitaire de Beauvais (AUB)
* École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (ESPE)
* Institut Universitaire de Technologie d'Amiens
* Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Aisne
* Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l'Oise
===Sciences Humaines et Sociales===
* UFR d'Histoire et de Géographie
* UFR Sciences Humaines, Sociales et Philosophie
===Sciences, Technologie, Santé===
* UFR de Médecine
* Institut d'Ingénierie de la Santé - 2IS
* UFR de Pharmacie
* UFR des Sciences
* UFR des Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives - STAPS
* Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques - INSSET
== Notable faculty ==
* [[Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi]] (1932-2004) - specialist in the work of Albert Camus
* [[Andrée Ehresmann]] (born 1935) - mathematician specialising in category theory
* [[Nadine-Josette Chaline]] (born 1938) - specialist in religious history
* [[Jean-Michel Macron]] (born 1950) - neurologist; father of Emmanuel Macron
* [[Jean-Marie Tarascon]] (born 1953) - chemist
* [[Brigitte Fouré]] (born 1955) - university lecturer and former government minister
* [[Laurence Bertrand Dorléac]] (born 1957) - art historian
* [[Enzo Traverso]] (born 1957) - Italian scholar of European intellectual history
* [[Nikolay Nenovsky]] (born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought
* [[Pablo Martín Asuero]] (born 1967) - Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history
* [[Alain Bui]] (born 1969) - specialist in information technology; president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
* [[Fabien Danesi]] - art historian
* [[Nicole Jacques-Lefevre]] - Professor of Literature who specialises in the study of demonological texts of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century including werewolves and lycanthropy
* [[Jean-Paul Cointet]] - historian
* [[Didier Eribon]] - philosopher
==Notable alumni==
* [[Daniel Ona Ondo]] (born 1945) - Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from January 2014 to September 2016
* [[Calliope Spanou]] - Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman
==See also==
* [[List of colleges and universities]]
* [[List of public universities in France by academy]]
* [[Amiens]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.u-picardie.fr/ University of Picardy Website] {{in lang|fr|en}}
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