Université Lille Nord de France

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University of Lille - North of France
Université de Lille - Nord de France
Established: 1562 (Douai), 1854(Lille)
Type: Public
Students: 110,000
Location: Lille, France
(50°36′23″N 3°8′11″E / 50.60639, 3.13639)
Campus: Multiple site campus : Arras Béthune Boulogne-sur-Mer Calais Cambrai Douai Dunkerque Lens Liévin Lille Maubeuge Ronchin Roubaix Tourcoing Valenciennes Villeneuve-d'Ascq Wimereux
Website: http://cde.univ-lille1.fr/

The University of Lille -Nord de France (Université Lille - Nord de France), located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille. It includes a doctoral college that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.

With more than one hundred thousand students, the Université Lille Nord de France is one of the largest university federation in France.

[edit] History

Founded as University of Douai in 1562, the University was remaned University of Lille in the 19th century.

[edit] Famous students and professors

Charles Barrois, Émile Borel, Pierre Bourdieu, Joseph Boussinesq, Henri Cartan, Albert Châtelet, Jean Chazy, Régis Courtecuisse, Guy Debeyre, René Deheuvels , Paul Dubreil, Joseph Kampé De Fériet, Frédéric Kuhlmann, Jacqueline Lelong-Ferrand, Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Benoît Mandelbrot, Henri Padé, Paul Painlevé, Louis Pasteur, Ernest Vessiot, Marc Zamansky.

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