University in France
Versailles, Île-de-France, France
University profile
The Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is the public university of the Yvelines département, west of Paris. Created in 1991, it is a founding member of the Université Paris-Saclay. It is a multidisciplinary institution with about 23,000 students in initial and continuing education and more than 200 degree programmes, from the BUT (bachelor universitaire de technologie) to the doctorate, together with health and engineering diplomas. Subjects range from the basic sciences, languages and literature, law and political science to humanities, health, economics, management, engineering and technology.
Teaching takes place on five campuses: Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Guyancourt), Vélizy-Villacoublay, Rambouillet and Mantes. The university is organised into ten components: the Faculté de Droit et Science politique; the IECI (Institut d'études culturelles et internationales); the ISM-IAE (Institut supérieur de management); the ISTY engineering school; the IUT de Mantes; the IUT de Vélizy-Rambouillet; the OVSQ (Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines); the UFR des Sciences; the UFR des Sciences sociales; and the UFR Simone Veil - Santé.
The curriculum includes 48 master's mentions, 48 licences (five of them double degrees), 24 licences professionnelles, 11 BUT specialities, four engineering diplomas and a political-science diploma. About 35% of programmes are offered through apprenticeship, and about 11% of students are on work-study contracts. Research is organised in 38 structures, including 31 laboratories, and the university takes part in around twenty investment-for-the-future programmes and in France 2030 projects.
Student life is organised around a library on each campus, the Maison de l'étudiant Marta Pan at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a university sports service (SUAPS), cultural services, student associations, a student health service and a social-support service. The CEREL language centre offers English, German and Spanish courses, TOEIC preparation and French as a foreign language. Accommodation is found through the Paris-Saclay housing platform (CASA), the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines housing portal and CROUS applications.
The university welcomes about 2,700 students of foreign nationality through a one-stop international office covering information, housing, health, cultural activities, French courses and summer schools. It has around 400 cooperation agreements with partners in 55 countries and a score of 100/100 for the quality of its mobility agreements under the Erasmus+ charter 2021-2027. UVSQ is a French public institution (établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel).
Fees are set annually by ministerial order. For 2026-2027: licence, licence professionnelle and BUT, 178 EUR; master, 255 EUR; engineering diploma (ISTY), 630 EUR; HDR and doctorate, 398 EUR (specific-fee diplomas such as DU are charged separately). By a council resolution of 10 March 2026, admitted non-EU candidates affected by the differentiated-fees decree pay the same registration fees as national students in 2026-2027 without needing to apply. This partial exemption applies to a national diploma of the first and second cycles in the same mention, up to 5 times in licence, 4 in BUT, 3 in master, 3 per cycle of medical studies and 4 years for ISTY engineering studies. Payment in three instalments is available by bank card for amounts of at least 178 EUR if the first payment is made before 15 October 2026. Refunds follow the university's refund procedures. The CVEC (contribution vie étudiante et de campus) is a separate national contribution paid before enrolment; see Candidatures et inscriptions.
Exemption from fees on social grounds requires a prior appointment with the university's family social-economy adviser and is examined by an exemption committee (2026 meetings: 14 and 29 September and 7 October). See Les droits universitaires.
Bourses sur critères sociaux (applicants under 28 on 1 September, income, dependants and distance criteria) and the aide au mérite are applied for through the Dossier Social Étudiant on etudiant.gouv.fr (January to end of May). The university offers a student social service with the CROUS social worker, the Klaro platform, clothing aid, an ESF adviser, a social grocery (AGORAé) and meals at 1 euro for all students. See Aides étudiantes.
For non-EU students, funding sources listed by the university include foreign-government scholarships, French ministry scholarships such as the Eiffel excellence scholarship, and Université Paris-Saclay scholarships (Paris-Saclay international master's scholarships), all catalogued by Campus France. Housing aid from the CAF, the Visale guarantee and the Complémentaire Santé Solidaire may be available. CROUS does not award scholarships to newly arriving international students. See Bourses et financements.
Registered students can apply for Erasmus+ grants (for 2025-2026: 420 EUR/month for group 1 countries, 370 EUR/month for groups 2 and 3, plus 150 EUR/month for traineeships), the ministry AMI aid (400 EUR/month in 2025-2026 for students with a social-criteria grant, stays of 1 to 10 months) and a CVEC-funded international mobility aid. Applications are examined by a commission twice a year. See Mobilité étudiante internationale.
CIFRE industrial contracts (funded by the ministry and run by the ANRT) and complementary teaching activity are available to doctoral students. See Financements de thèse.
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View scholarships for Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines →First-year applicants resident in France apply through Parcoursup (January to March) for the BUT and for licences. Foreign applicants holding a foreign secondary-school diploma and resident in France submit a Demande d'Admission Préalable (DAP, the 'dossier vert') for first-year licence or health studies; for the 2026 intake the file was due by 15 December 2025, and the file is examined simultaneously by the three universities requested. For the UFR des Sciences, only the mathematics, physics and MIASHS licences were open for September 2026. Entry to the second and third years of the licence or the first and second years of the master is by the e-candidature application (opening in March). Entry to the BUT second and third years is also through e-candidature, and licences professionnelles use a paper file downloaded from the programme page. Foreign students not yet resident in France cannot apply for licence professionnelle.
Applicants living in a country with the 'Études en France' procedure apply through Campus France in their country (from 1 October for the following year) for first-year licence, BUT, and for 2nd/3rd-year licence or master entry to UVSQ-only programmes. Applicants from other countries collect a DAP file from the cultural and cooperation service of the French embassy, apply to the BUT through Parcoursup, or apply to 2nd/3rd-year licence and master programmes through the UVSQ e-candidature application. Nationals of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway follow the same steps as French students.
Applicants under the DAP procedure for first-year licence or health studies must show a B2 level of French, normally by the TCF DAP (organised by the CIEP in February, valid for two years, about three hours), unless exempt: DELF B2, DALF C1 or C2, French baccalauréat, a French-government scholarship, refugee or stateless status, bilingual French sections, or nationality of an officially French-speaking country listed by the university. For 2nd-year licence to 2nd-year master, a very good command of written and spoken French is expected and the admission committee may test it. The CEREL and the IECI offer French as a foreign language courses (the IECI courses are free for exchange students and carry 3 ECTS credits each). Most teaching is in French; some departments offer courses in English for exchange students.
Master applications go through Mon Master (monmaster.gouv.fr), searching for 'UVSQ' or 'Université Paris-Saclay'. Masters labelled Université Paris-Saclay (85% of UVSQ's 48 master mentions) are applied for on the Paris-Saclay application platform; admitted students are then registered by the Paris-Saclay member institution. Admitted non-EU students apply for a visa through Études en France ('Je suis admis', uploading the admission notice) or through the nearest consulate.
Doctoral registration goes through the Espace Doctoral of the Université Paris-Saclay and its doctoral schools. The thesis is prepared in a research laboratory under the responsibility of a thesis director who is an authorised teacher-researcher or researcher (HDR holder) at UVSQ; the recommended duration is three years. Contact: [email protected].
After admission, candidates register administratively online (Parcoursup admits, other first registrations, re-registrations). Non-European students need a visa and, for stays over six months, a residence permit to be requested within two months of arrival. Students must also arrange health insurance, civil liability insurance and a bank account. Student exchange participants pay fees at their home university and enrol free of charge. Contacts: [email protected] (international students office), [email protected] (visas).
Each campus has a university library (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, Boulogne, Mantes, Rambouillet, Vélizy). The UFR Simone Veil - Santé works with associated hospitals including Ambroise Paré (Boulogne-Billancourt), Raymond Poincaré (Garches), Foch (Suresnes), André Mignot (Versailles), the CHI de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sainte-Périne (Paris) and the Institut Curie site at Saint-Cloud. The sports service is based in the Maison de l'étudiant Marta Pan, Guyancourt.
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