University in France
Dembeni, Outre-mer, France
University profile
The Centre universitaire de Mayotte (also styled UMAY, formerly the Centre universitaire de formation et de recherche, CUFR) is a young French public higher-education institution created in 2011 to structure post-baccalaureat provision on the island of Mayotte. It is an Etablissement public a caractere administratif led by an elected director and deputy director, with a board of 20 members that includes student representatives, a Commission de la Formation et de la Vie Universitaire and a Commission de la recherche.
The campus is at Iloni, in the commune of Dembeni on Grande-Terre, at 8 rue de l'Universite. Its stated missions are interdisciplinary initial and continuing education, research of international scope, the spread of scientific culture, international cooperation, and student success and professional integration. The director's message describes a path from a campus allowing Mahoran baccalaureate holders to study locally to Bac+2 towards an institution offering Licence to Master level, with 26 diplomas (11 of them university diplomas) and 22 research themes centred on the needs of the island.
Teaching is organised in four fields, each run with a partner university that awards the national degree: Droit-Economie-Gestion (Aix-Marseille Universite and Universite de Nimes), Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Universite de Nimes and Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3), Sciences et Technologies (Universite de Montpellier) and Sciences de l'education (Universite de La Reunion, with the INSPE de La Reunion for teacher training). Programmes include general licences in Law, AES, Lettres modernes, Geography, Mathematiques generales and Sciences de la vie, two licences professionnelles, a BUT 3 GACO by apprenticeship, teacher-training routes and several university diplomas.
Student support includes the Pole reussite etudiante (created in 2015, with methodology teaching, tutoring by final-year students and re-orientation help), the Centre de documentation universitaire (about 23,000 documents), the Service Universitaire d'Action Culturelle, an Erasmus+ office and a DU Passeport pour la Reussite et l'Orientation preparatory year. The Prepa Talents class prepares eligible students for category A and B civil-service competitions.
Internationally the institution is a member of Campus France and of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, belongs to the Reseau des universites ultramarines, holds the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027 and has partnerships with seven universities in three countries of the south-west Indian Ocean. It was evaluated by the HCERES in 2019 and its first contrat d'etablissement (2020-2025) was signed on 18 November 2021; it was the last French university institution holding CUFR status, which does not allow it to award national diplomas in its own name, and it is working towards becoming an Institut national universitaire.
Students enrolled in the DU Passeport pour la Reussite et l'Orientation can receive the national higher-education bourse sur criteres sociaux if they meet the legal conditions.
The Plan Talents du service public provides a free one-year diploma course, preparation for more than 50 competitions, tutoring by civil servants, an annual grant and housing and catering aid; from the 2026 start of the academic year the grant is increased by 1,000 euros, to 5,000 euros per year.
Erasmus+ study mobility applications for the first semester of 2026-2027 closed on 5 June 2026 at 10:00. Contact: [email protected]. See Erasmus+ at UMAY.
The Contribution vie etudiante et de campus (CVEC) funds a commission which selects student projects; the next CVEC commission is on Friday 23 October 2026. Details at Commissions ASAP et CVEC.
The prefecture of Mayotte's Cadres d'avenir scheme has offered Mahoran L2 and L3 students a monthly allowance for up to five years of study in mainland France or La Reunion, travel funding and a settling-in grant of up to 800 euros, in return for working in Mayotte afterwards (2021 call).
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View scholarships for Centre universitaire de Mayotte →Applications for entry into the second or third year of the general licences are made on file through the online application platform of the institution for Law, Administration economique et sociale, Lettres modernes, Geography, Mathematiques generales and Sciences de la vie. The 2026 application closing date shown for these programmes is 30 August 2026.
Licence professionnelle Management et gestion des organisations (MGO) and Developpement de projets de territoires (DPT, parcours Montage et gestion de projets europeens) are open to holders of a Bac+2, such as AES, certain BTS (Assistant manager, Comptabilite et gestion des organisations, Management des unites commerciales, Assistant de gestion PME-PMI) or a DUT in business administration. Numbers are limited to 20 in initial training and selection is run by the Centre universitaire. Applications for 2026 close on 30 August 2026.
The Parcours preparatoire au professorat des ecoles (3PE) is open to Bac+1 and Bac+2 students, with a 2026 deadline of 26 June 2026. The Sciences dans le premier degre et mediation scientifique parcours (licence 3, preparing the CRPE) is open to Bac+2 students, contract teachers and career changers; the file consists of a motivation letter including the professional project and the transcript of the BTS or other Bac+2 diploma, all in PDF.
For baccalaureate holders who have applied for it on Parcoursup, and those refused entry to their chosen licence at the Centre universitaire via Parcoursup. It has 366 compulsory teaching hours over two semesters; students who validate it are admitted to a licence the following year, and no repeat is possible.
For scholarship students under 28 or job seekers meeting social criteria, of French nationality or holding a residence permit, with above-average academic results. Selection is on file, with French tests and/or interview; applications go through the e-candidat platform.
Dembeni (Iloni) main campus, 8 rue de l'Universite, BP 53, 97660 Dembeni, on Grande-Terre. All departments (Droit-Economie-Gestion, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Sciences et Technologies, Sciences de l'education), the administration and the Centre de documentation universitaire are located here. The campus is reached from the airport on Petite-Terre by taxi and the free barge to Mamoudzou, then by taxi towards Dembeni and Iloni.
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