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Nîmes, Occitanie, France
University profile
Nîmes Université (Unîmes) is a multidisciplinary public university in Nîmes, in the Gard department of Occitanie, between Montpellier and Marseille. It describes itself as a multidisciplinary university outside health, with a professional orientation, and about 5,800 students. Its programmes run from the Licence (bac+3) to the Doctorate (bac+8) in initial training, continuing education and work-study (alternance).
Since 1 January 2025 the university has been an Établissement Public Expérimental (EPE). The EPE brings together the Université de Nîmes, two component institutions (the esban art school and IFME-Apafase), six associated institutions and one partner institution, with local authorities (City of Nîmes, Nîmes Métropole, the Gard consular chamber, Alès Agglomération and the Occitanie Region) as partners. The EPE was created by decree no. 2024-842 of 16 July 2024 and is linked to the GARDENER project (Excellence gardoise), a laureate of the national call 'Excellence sous toutes ses formes' with the CHU de Nîmes and the esban.
Teaching is organised in five faculties: the faculté de Design, the faculté de Droit Économie Gestion, the faculté de Lettres, Langues et Histoire, the faculté de Psychologie et STAPS and the faculté des Sciences. The catalogue includes Licences in Arts (Design), Law, AES, Letters, English and Spanish (LLCER), History, Psychology, STAPS, Mathematics, Life Sciences and Ecological Transition Sciences, fifteen Licences professionnelles (for example optics, biotechnology, textile product design, notary work, insurance, robotics vision, dismantling and waste), eighteen Masters, and about nineteen university diplomas (DU).
Campuses are in the centre of Nîmes (sites Vauban, Hoche and Carmes) and in Mende (Lozère). The university also acts as referent for three Campus connectés (Lozère, Le Vigan, Alès). Student life is supported by a university library, a sports service (SUAPS) with free classes, student associations, a preventive medicine service and a Maison Sport-Santé Universitaire; student housing is run by the CROUS Montpellier-Occitanie, whose Nîmes residences include Saint-Césaire, Tour Magne, Georges Besse, Clérisseau, Hoche and Les Palmes.
International students are supported by the Relations Internationales office at the Vauban site, a welcome week for Erasmus and international students, a student sponsorship (parrainage) programme, French lessons with student tutoring during the year, and the annual Erasmus Days. Of about 48 programmes advertised to international applicants, the offer spans law, AES, letters, languages, history, STAPS, psychology, sciences, arts and design.
National registration fees are set by the ministries: Licence and Licence professionnelle 178 euros, Master 255 euros, Doctorate 398 euros (reduced rates of 118 euros for Licence and 167 euros for Master apply to a complementary enrolment at Unîmes). Nîmes Université applies differentiated fees to non-EU and non-EEA foreign students on international mobility: 2,902 euros for a Licence and 3,950 euros for a Master in 2026-2027. Students holding a means-tested bursary are exempt from all national fees. Payment is by card, bank transfer, and instalments can be arranged for non-bursary students through the registrar's payment office.
The Contribution Vie Étudiante et de Campus (CVEC) is paid separately before enrolment and is 105 euros for 2026-2027; some profiles are exempt. Students obtain a certificate from the national CVEC portal.
Means-tested higher-education bursaries (bourses sur critères sociaux) and the allocation d'études are managed by the CROUS Montpellier-Occitanie through the Dossier Social Étudiant, filed between 20 January and 15 May on crous-montpellier.fr. A CROUS social worker holds sessions at the Vauban site on Mondays and Tuesdays and handles emergency aid requests (FNAU, individual FSDIE, catering aid). The Visale rental guarantee is also described on the university's housing page.
ED 583 offers establishment doctoral contracts through an annual competition (two in 2026, one on a fundamental topic and one with an international dimension), with applications on ADUM.
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View scholarships for Université de Nîmes →All 2026-2027 applications to the first year of Licence are made on Parcoursup. Applicants from non-EU countries with a Campus France Espace in their country must apply through the Campus France online procedure, otherwise a study visa is not issued. Residents of France who hold a foreign diploma apply with the 'dossier vert' to the nearest university before 15 December; residents of countries without a Campus France Espace use the 'dossier blanc' via the French embassy's cultural service, with an answer sent before 15 April. Candidates who sit the baccalauréat in a French lycée abroad apply through Parcoursup.
Applications are made on eCandidat according to a calendar published on the application. Applicants from countries with a Campus France Espace use the Campus France procedure instead.
Applications are made on MonMaster.gouv.fr. Students already enrolled at Unîmes who continue in the same programme are not concerned by these procedures.
Holders of an EU baccalauréat apply to L1 on Parcoursup; applications to L2, L3, Licence professionnelle and Master use eCandidat.
Level B2 of the French language is required for admission. A TCF certificate must be included in every application file; the university organises a TCF DAP session each year (mid-February), and other test dates are arranged through France Éducation international. French lessons with tutoring are available during the year.
Doctoral students are registered at the doctoral school ED 583 'Risques et société', which draws on six research teams (APSY-v, CHROME, GARANCe, MIPA, PROJEKT and ENACT). Institution-funded doctoral contracts are awarded through a competition published on ADUM: the 2026 file comprised a supporting letter from a teaching-researcher, the S3 grades, an analytical CV and a motivation letter, followed by an oral between 6 and 10 July 2026, with the ranking published on 13 July.
After admission: pay the CVEC and obtain the certificate, complete the online administrative enrolment (for 2026-2027 the platform reopened on 24 August until 30 August 2026; Parcoursup students from 7 July 2026), upload supporting documents, pay the registration fees, then complete the pedagogical enrolment after receiving the certificate of enrolment.
Facilities: the library holds more than 85,000 books, 215 journal titles and 2,500 DVDs, with over 50 online encyclopaedias and databases (Vauban, Monday to Friday 8h-19h, Saturday 9h-12h30). The SUAPS offers free sport and arts classes and a weekly Thursday evening session at the Vauban gymnasium. The university lists 20,000 m² of usable surface, nine lecture theatres and a budget of 24 million euros.
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