University in France
Amiens, Hauts-de-France, France
University profile
The Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) is a multidisciplinary public university in the Hauts-de-France region, headquartered in Amiens. It is a public institution of a scientific, cultural and professional nature (établissement public national à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel) and educates around 32,000 students a year in initial and continuing education, on six campuses in Amiens, Beauvais, Saint-Quentin, Creil, Laon and Cuffies-Soissons.
Teaching is organised in four fields: Arts, Lettres, Langues; Droit, Économie, Gestion; Sciences Humaines et Sociales; and Sciences, Technologie, Santé. The 12 UFR (unités de formation et de recherche) are Arts, Langues et Cultures Étrangères, Lettres, Droit et Science politique, Économie et Gestion, Histoire et Géographie, Sciences Humaines, Sociales et Philosophie, Médecine, Pharmacie, Odontologie, Sciences, and STAPS. Seven institutes complete the offer, among them the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE), the Institut de Préparation à l'Administration Générale (IPAG), the Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques (INSSET), the INSPÉ (teacher education) and the IUT of Amiens, the Aisne and the Oise, together with the École d'Ingénieurs Jules Verne (EIJV) and the Antenne Universitaire de Beauvais.
Research is carried out in 36 research units spread over science (12 units), health (11 units) and humanities and social sciences (13 units), with strategic axes in agro-resources, energy and mobility, and health and technology. The university takes part in France 2030 projects and hosts two doctoral schools.
Student life includes 71 student associations, sports facilities on every campus run by the SUAPS, a free and confidential student health service (SSE), a social action office (BASE), 12 libraries across the campuses and a disability support office. Accommodation is mainly in CROUS Amiens-Picardie residences, which are subsidised and allocated first to scholarship holders.
About 3,500 international students from 118 nationalities study at the UPJV each year, and the university has around 700 exchange programmes and bilateral agreements. It holds the Bienvenue en France label (2 stars out of 3, obtained in 2020 and renewed in 2025) from Campus France, offers a Buddy System and a one-stop welcome desk, and its Centre FLE holds the Qualité FLE label (2019). The UPJV belongs to the A2U alliance with the Université d'Artois and the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale and is a partner of the European university alliance BAUHAUS4EU.
National registration fees for students under the standard rate are 178 euros for Licence, 255 euros for Master and 398 euros for Doctorate. Students subject to differentiated fees pay 2,902 euros per year in a Licence cycle and 3,950 euros per year in a Master cycle. Differentiated fees do not apply to EU/EEA, Swiss, Andorran, Monegasque or Québec nationals, refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, those fiscally domiciled in France for two years, holders of certain residence permits, nationals of states with a reciprocal agreement, and students in a CPGE of a public lycée. Doctoral students and EIJV engineering students are covered by separate rules.
The CVEC is a separate national student contribution paid before registration.
Students holding a national scholarship (échelon 0bis to 7) are exempt from registration fees by right. Other cases are reviewed on request: students admitted to Master 2 after a Master 1 in another French university, students who have studied at the UPJV for at least a year, and students who obtained their baccalauréat in France. Newly arrived students without a French baccalauréat cannot claim exemption. New exemption arrangements follow the decree of 19 May 2026. Doctoral students contact their doctoral school.
Need-based national grants (bourses sur critères sociaux) are requested from CROUS Amiens-Picardie through the dossier social étudiant. The Bureau de l'Action Sociale Étudiante (BASE), at the Pôle universitaire Citadelle, offers financial, housing, administrative, transport and mobility aid, and publishes a guide of social aids. Students on exchange programmes (Erasmus+, ISEP or bilateral agreements) pay fees at their home university and may receive a mobility grant.
Funding includes the UPJV three-year doctoral contract (contrat doctoral), Hauts-de-France Region funding for public-private or international cotutelle theses, and CIFRE industrial agreements.
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View scholarships for Université de Picardie Jules Verne →First-year applicants to Licence, health access programmes (PASS/LAS), BUT and DEUST apply through the national Parcoursup platform. Entry to the 2nd or 3rd year of a Licence, or to a Licence professionnelle, is through eCandidat (eTransfert for a transfer within the same mention from another university). Holders of a BTS or DUT apply through eCandidat. A DAEU is also applied for through eCandidat.
International students must have a command of French at level B2. Students resident in France without a French baccalauréat who want a first year of Licence (or LAS) or PASS complete the 'dossier vert' of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Students resident abroad who are preparing or hold a higher-education entry qualification in their home country complete the 'dossier blanc'. Applicants from a country with a Campus France office apply through the Études en France procedure; applicants from other countries, EU nationals and French nationals holding a foreign diploma apply through eCandidat. EU nationals apply to the first year of Licence through Parcoursup and to the 2nd or 3rd year of Licence or 2nd year of Master through eCandidat. Non-European students may be subject to differentiated registration fees.
First-year Master applications are made on the national Mon Master platform during the campaign, and second-year applications on eCandidat. Foreign applicants (other than nationals of the European Economic Area, Andorra, Switzerland or Monaco) living in a country covered by Études en France apply through that platform or directly to the institution, depending on the programme. The INSPÉ Master MEEF follows the same platforms: Mon Master for M1, eCandidat for M2; the M1 MEEF 1st degree can be applied for at the Amiens, Beauvais or Laon centres, and a favourable decision must be confirmed within 3 days on eCandidat for M2.
The École d'Ingénieurs Jules Verne admits students from the 1st year of the engineer cycle (2 years after the baccalauréat) through the e3a-Polytech, Banque PT and ATS competitive examinations, through selection on file, or through Campus France. Specialisations are cybersecurity, supply chain and logistics, digital technology, health and AI, and energy and environmental engineering. For 2026 the file-selection campaigns ran from 21 February to 22 March, then from 23 March to 15 May (cybersecurity) or 12 June (the three other specialisations), then 1 to 28 August.
A national Master's degree or equivalent is required. Applicants contact one of the two doctoral schools (EDSHS or EDSTS), find a thesis supervisor (habilité à diriger des recherches) and register through the ADUM application. Holders of foreign diplomas only must go through a validation of studies procedure. Joint supervision (cotutelle) with a foreign university is possible.
After admission, students pay the CVEC (contribution vie étudiante et de campus) on cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr, register online, pay registration fees, upload supporting documents and create their ENT digital workspace. Non-European students must complete a questionnaire to determine whether they are liable for differentiated fees or exempt. The 2026-2027 registration calendar provides for online registration until 22 July 2026 and a resumption from 25 August 2026. Students arriving through Erasmus+, ISEP or a bilateral agreement apply through their home university and need at least B1 French at application; they follow free French as a foreign language classes (4 to 5 hours a week, 8 ECTS) and can request a university residence room by 1 June for the first semester or the full year, or by 1 November for the second semester.
The 12 university libraries serve the campuses and offer bookable group-work rooms, online resources, printing and scanning, interlibrary loans and loans of small study equipment. The student health service holds consultations by appointment in Amiens, Saint-Quentin, Beauvais and Creil, and the university has sports facilities on each campus.
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