University in France
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
University profile
The Université de Lille is a large multidisciplinary public university in the Lille metropolitan area, Hauts-de-France. It brings together about 80,000 students and close to 8,000 staff, and it describes itself as the second largest public employer in the Nord department. Its current form dates from 1 January 2022, when the former merged university absorbed four grandes écoles as component institutions.
Teaching is organised through faculties and institutes: the Faculté des humanités (FHUMA), the Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et des territoires (FASEST), the UFR des sciences de santé et du sport (UFR3S), the Institut universitaire de technologie (IUT), the Faculté des langues, cultures et sociétés (LCS), the Faculté des sciences et technologies (FST), IAE Lille University School of Management, the École polytechnique universitaire de Lille (Polytech Lille), the Faculté de psychologie, des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation (PSYSEF), the Faculté des sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales (FSJPS) and the INSPÉ Lille Hauts-de-France. The Centre de formation des musiciens intervenants (CFMI) and the Institut de la communication, de l'information et du document (ICID) complete the list. The component institutions (établissements-composantes) are ENSAIT (textiles engineering), ENSAPL (architecture and landscape), ESJ Lille (journalism) and Sciences Po Lille.
The university offers 180 degree mentions, from Licence and BUT to Master, engineering cycles and doctorates, with graduate programmes (programmes gradués) that link Master and doctoral study to research. More than 240 work-study (alternance) pathways are available from Bac+1 to Bac+5, and some 5,000 apprentices are trained each year. Continuing education reaches about 12,200 trainees.
The 650,000 m² estate is spread over ten sites across the metropolitan area, grouped in campuses at Cité scientifique and Pont-de-Bois (Villeneuve-d'Ascq), Lille-Moulins, Campus Santé (Loos and Lille), Roubaix-Tourcoing and Flers-Château. Students have access to four university libraries and the LILLIAD learning centre, more than 80 sport activities through the SUAPS, a student health service with five sites, and nurseries on campus for student parents. Accommodation is mainly through Crous residences, reserved in priority for grant holders, plus private and partner platforms.
About 9,900 students are international. The university takes part in the NeurotechEU European university alliance and holds a national excellence label for its research strategy.
Registration fees (droits d'inscription) for national diplomas are set by the French ministries (arrêté of 19 April 2019). For 2026/2027 the standard fees are 178 EUR for Licence, 255 EUR for Master, 630 EUR for engineering cycles and 398 EUR for Doctorate. Non-EU students (outside the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco and Quebec) who enrol for the first time in Master or an engineering cycle, who enrol in a doctorate, or who study by distance learning, pay these standard fees automatically without any procedure, which the university describes as a partial exemption from the differentiated fees. Additional fees may apply for distance study or continuing education.
The contribution de vie étudiante et de campus (CVEC) is 105 EUR for 2026-2027 and is paid separately on the government site before registration. Some students are exempt.
Students receiving a social-criteria grant or a French government scholarship, and wards of the Nation, are exempt from registration fees. Other students may apply to the exemption commission on social and personal grounds: non-grant holders, non-EU students entering first-cycle (Licence, Licence professionnelle, BUT) for the first time, repeating students, and asylum seekers or refugees. The 2026/2027 campaign opened on 1 April 2026; requests are due before 31 October 2026 for Licence, BUT, DEUST, Licence professionnelle, engineering cycle and Master, and before 16 January 2027 for Doctorate. Applications are made on the TEDI platform (tedi.univ-lille.fr); questions go to the exemption team by email.
The FSDIE social aid fund can provide one or more financial aids during the year, access to the campus solidarity grocery, help with food purchases or Izly meal-card top-ups, help with rent debt in Crous residences, and a free laptop loan with connection aid. Crous grants on social criteria are requested each year through the Dossier Social Étudiant before 31 May. Grant holders receive 100 free meals per year in university restaurants, and meals at 1 EUR may be available after evaluation. See the financial aid page and the registration fees page.
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View scholarships for Université de Lille →Admission to the first year of a BUT, DEUST, Licence or PASS goes through the national Parcoursup platform for applicants who are not in continuing education. Programme characteristics, expected skills and admission criteria are given on Parcoursup. Questions on first-year admission can be sent to the university's Parcoursup team.
Applications are made online on the eCandidat platform. Students moving from another French university within the same Licence or BUT mention use a validation and transfer procedure from mid-June instead.
Applications are made on eCandidat, with a calendar that varies by programme. University diplomas (DU) also apply through eCandidat, though some have specific admission procedures.
Applications to Master 1 are made on the national Mon Master platform; some M1 programmes use the university's eCandidat platform instead. Master 2 applications are made on eCandidat.
Engineering applications are handled through Polytech Lille, which has its own admission pages.
Doctoral study is organised within seven regional doctoral schools.
International students follow the applicable procedure for their nationality as set out on the university's international pages. Non-EU students pay national standard registration fees automatically if they are enrolling for the first time in Master or an engineering cycle, in doctorate, or in distance learning.
Enrolment has three compulsory steps: online application, online administrative registration, and pedagogical registration in courses, groups and exams. A CVEC certificate must be obtained before administrative registration, except in continuing education and HDR.
Facilities include four university libraries and the LILLIAD learning centre (2,059,000 entries in 2024), sports facilities on every campus, a student health service with three centres and two branches, and crèches and day nurseries for student parents.
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