University in France
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
University profile
Aix Marseille Université (amU) is a public multidisciplinary research university in the south of France, created on 1 January 2012 from the merger of the region's three universities. It is described as the largest multidisciplinary university in the French-speaking world and enrols about 84,000 students, including about 12,000 international students, with some 8,500 staff, on five main campuses spread across nine cities and four departments. Its stated values are humanity, excellence, cooperation, inventiveness and commitment.
Teaching is organised in 17 faculties, schools and institutes. They include the Faculté de droit et de science politique (FDSP), the Faculté des arts, lettres, langues et sciences humaines (ALLSH), the Faculté d'économie et de gestion (FEG), the Faculté des sciences (FDS), the Faculté des sciences médicales et paramédicales (FSMPM), the Faculté des sciences du sport (FSS), the IUT d'Aix-Marseille, Polytech Marseille (engineering school), the Inspé (teacher education), the École de journalisme et de communication d'Aix-Marseille (EJCAM), the Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT), the Institut Régional du Travail (IRT), the Centre de Formation des Musiciens Intervenants (CFMI) and the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences humaines (MMSH).
amU describes itself as a research-intensive university associated with CNRS, Inserm, IRD, CEA and ANR. Interdisciplinary research and training are organised through 21 thematic institutes funded and coordinated by the Amidex foundation, which supports the Aix-Marseille Initiative for Excellence. Innovation activity is centred on the Cité de l'Innovation et des Savoirs Aix-Marseille (CISAM), founded in 2018, and the Pôle Universitaire d'Innovation Provence, which amU has piloted since 2024.
Student life includes about 150 to 160 student associations, 60 libraries (17 of them university libraries), more than 80 sports disciplines through the university sports service (SUAPS), cultural workshops through the Culture and Society Department, and free access to healthcare through university health centres in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. A Service pour le Respect et l'Égalité handles harassment and discrimination cases. Rooms in CROUS residences are available to international students under CROUS conditions, and a Buddy System pairs newcomers with local students.
International students are supported through welcome desks on the campuses, a handbook for degree-seeking students, French as a foreign language courses from the University Language Service (SUL), 74 international partnership diplomas, 336 Erasmus+ partners and membership of the CIVIS European Civic University. In 2024 amU received the third star of the Bienvenue en France label from Campus France.
National public registration fees apply to French, EU, EEA, Monaco, Andorra, Quebec and Swiss nationals; doctoral students, health-sciences postgraduates, HDR holders, refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, long-term residents, people who have been tax residents in France for more than two years and students in preparatory classes (CPGE) also pay national fees. For 2026-2027, differentiated fees for non-EU students are EUR 2,902 for a bachelor's degree and EUR 3,950 for a master's degree, payable in full at first enrolment (no instalments). French government scholarship holders and students covered by a cooperation agreement granting reciprocal exemption pay no fees; certain students may receive a 75% partial exemption within the regulatory quota, applied via a box in the online registration form and notified from December; Lebanese, Ukrainian and Palestinian students receive a full exemption by individual decision; TIGER and Amidex scholarship holders receive a 75% exemption. Students already enrolled in 2025-2026 and continuing in the same cycle keep their previous schedule. The CVEC (contribution vie étudiante et de campus) is a separate mandatory contribution, EUR 105 in 2025-2026, from which scholarship holders and some others are exempt.
Funds outstanding master's students with up to EUR 10,000 for one academic year, a reserved room in a CROUS residence (subject to completing formalities) and welcome support. No separate application: candidates apply to an eligible master's programme through the usual platform, programme coordinators select recipients, and an award letter follows the admission letter. Eligible programmes span science, health, humanities, economics and management, law, environment and engineering. Differentiated fees still apply.
Supports study or internship periods of at least one month (outgoing) or two months (incoming) for bachelor's, master's and doctoral students on eligible programmes funded by the Amidex foundation. Since September 2024, incoming recipients subject to differentiated fees are exempted from up to 75% of them.
Run by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Campus France for master's and doctoral students. Master's applicants must not be French citizens, be born after 31 March 1997, not live in France and not have applied before; submit a CV, cover letter, last three years of transcripts and diplomas by 11 November 2026. Doctoral applicants (born after 31 March 1991) email the International Relations Office ([email protected]) by 25 November 2026 with their thesis advisor in copy. amU screens applications before forwarding them to Campus France.
French government scholarships administered by Campus France can cover living costs, insurance and travel depending on the programme and country.
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View scholarships for Aix-Marseille University →Applications depend on nationality, place of residence and level. Administrative enrolment (payment of fees, student card) follows a positive admission decision, and course registration follows administrative enrolment. The CVEC certificate (paid or exempted) must be presented at administrative registration.
Applicants from countries within the Études en France procedure who are not holders or future holders of the French or European baccalauréat apply through Études en France for Licence 1, Licence Professionnelle 1 and PASS (non-selective programmes), and through Parcoursup for selective first-year programmes (BUT 1, DEUST 1, PEIP 1, CMI, CUPGE). Applicants resident in France use the Demande d'Admission Préalable (green form) for Licence 1, LP1 and PASS; applicants resident in a country outside the Études en France procedure use the Demande d'Admission Préalable (white form). French and EEA applicants entering a first year use Parcoursup. Entry to Licence 2 or 3, LP2 or 3 and BUT 2 or 3 is through eCandidat (or Études en France for applicants from Études en France countries).
Master 1 applicants resident in France or in non-Études en France countries apply through Mon Master (monmaster.gouv.fr); Master 2 applicants apply through eCandidat. Applicants from Études en France countries apply for Master 1 and 2 through Études en France. Applicants must prepare diplomas, transcripts and proof of language proficiency and consult the application calendar. A one-year preparatory programme with intensive French, introductory subject courses and academic skills workshops is available for students who need to build French before a French-taught degree. Some courses are taught in English.
Doctoral applicants contact the relevant doctoral school and a thesis director. First-year registration follows acceptance of the file by the doctoral school director, then an account on ADUM, where the application form, individual training agreement and doctoral charter are downloaded and signed by the candidate, thesis director(s), host laboratory director and doctoral school director. Administrative registration is then made with the tuition office responsible for doctorates and renewed each year.
The Polytech Marseille engineering school has its own admission platform. Diploma-level qualifications (DU, DESU, CU) are applied for directly with the faculty or school concerned. Exchange students apply through their home university.
Non-EU students need a long-stay student visa (VLS-TS), which must be validated online within three months of arrival in France. It allows work of up to 964 hours per year. Non-European students register for French social security on Ameli, and the university's Welcome Desks help with residence permit procedures.
Facilities include 60 libraries (17 university libraries), more than 80 sports disciplines, free-access health centres in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, a student health service, and CROUS residences and restaurants.
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