University in France
Paris, Île-de-France, France
University profile
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL is a public university in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, specialising in the sciences of organisations and decision-making. It describes a hybrid status as both a university and a grande école, and is a component institution of Université PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres). Its strategy, Dauphine 2030, is built on innovation, internationalisation, and diversity and solidarity.
The historic Porte Dauphine campus occupies the Palais Dauphine (the former NATO headquarters, built 1955-1957 by the architect Jacques Carlu), which the university has used since 1968. A 4,000 m2 new wing opened on 22 May 2025 with a Learning Center, an incubator and a nursery, and the renovation of the existing 60,000 m2 building continues until 2029. The Institut Pratique du Journalisme (IPJ) is at 24 rue Saint-Georges, Paris 9e, and a La Défense site hosts continuing-education students.
Teaching covers eight fields: law, economics, finance, computer science, journalism, management, mathematics and social sciences. Undergraduate provision is centred on the Licence Sciences des Organisations and the Licence Mathématiques-Informatique (including Talents tracks and a double licence in Artificial Intelligence and organisational sciences), with Magistères and Masters above them. Every Master and Doctorate student joins a Programme Gradué of PSL; the university leads seven of PSL's eighteen graduate programmes (Management, Law, Economics, Social Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics and Applications, Finance) plus the transversal Data/AI programme.
Student life centres on the campus: about forty general associations, more than sixty programme associations, the SUAPS sports service (35-40% of students enrolled in a sporting activity, depending on the page), an incubator for student and alumni projects, an infirmary open daily 8:30-19:30 and a university restaurant with meals at a social rate. The housing service manages about 800 places, including residences at Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine and Paris La Défense.
About 21-22% of students are international. Each year about 700 students leave on exchange and 600 foreign students arrive. Besides Paris, the university runs programmes in London, Tunis and Dakar and partnership tracks in Madrid and Frankfurt. Dauphine was the first French university to receive EQUIS accreditation (2009), renewed most recently in 2025 for five years, and holds the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for 2021-2027.
Fees are either national rates set by the ministry or amounts voted by the university board. Licence Sciences des Organisations and Licence Mathématiques-Informatique fees are modulated by parental income: from exemption (gross income up to 34,999 EUR) to 4,848 EUR for Sciences des Organisations; 2,349 EUR where tax residence is outside the EU for Sciences des Organisations, and 582 EUR for Mathématiques-Informatique. National-diploma Masters cost 255 EUR; non-EU students may obtain partial exemption to that rate on a reasoned request at registration, otherwise 3,950 EUR applies. Master DGE (Diplôme de Grand Établissement) fees are modulated from 258 EUR to 11,100 EUR, with 6,831 EUR for non-EU tax residence. Doctorate: 398 EUR national rate. The Madrid Licence costs 9,787 EUR (year 1) and 9,075 EUR (year 2).
The CVEC (contribution vie étudiante et de campus), set by the CROUS, is separate and is 105 EUR for 2026-2027; a payment or exemption certificate is required before registration.
CROUS scholarship holders and French government scholarship holders (Campus France) are exempt from fees in the programmes concerned, as are refugees, students with a disability card of 80% or more and pupilles de la nation. Non-EU students in modulated Master DGE programmes may apply for a 50% or full exemption on academic and social criteria, filed with their MyCandidature application.
For foreign Master and Doctorate students in economics and management, law, engineering sciences, political science, and mathematics and digital: 1,200 EUR per month (Master) or 2,000 EUR per month (Doctorate), plus international and national travel. Master applicants must be first-time arrivals; age limit 29 (Master) and 35 (Doctorate). Applications to Dauphine by 15 November 2026; Campus France decides in mid-April 2027. Contact: [email protected].
Details: Aides et financement des études and Droits de scolarité.
Bourse d'excellence Eiffel (candidature via Dauphine-PSL) →
Bourse d'excellence du Programme Gradué Informatique (M1 I2D, M2 IASD, M2 MODO) →
Bourse d'excellence du Programme Gradué Finance (M1 et M2 Research in Finance) →
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View scholarships for Université Paris Dauphine – PSL →Applicants holding or preparing a French or European baccalaureate apply on Parcoursup. Applicants from outside the EU/EEA, Switzerland, Monaco and Andorra who hold another secondary qualification submit a Demande d'Admission Préalable (DAP) on the Études en France site; applicants living in a country covered by the Campus France procedure follow the CEF Campus France procedure, and those living in other countries submit a DAP blanche. Refugees, stateless persons and children of diplomats follow separate non-Parcoursup procedures.
Applications for the Licences and Magistères in Sciences des Organisations and the Licence in Mathématiques-Informatique are made online on MyCandidature. Applicants subject to the Études en France procedure must also complete that file through to the student visa.
Master 1 applications for the national-diploma programmes in public law, business law, notarial law, accounting-control-audit, innovation management, health economics and management, public policy, economic and social sciences, applied mathematics, computer science and MIAGE are made on monmaster.gouv.fr; all other programmes apply on MyCandidature, and applicants from Bachelor programmes apply directly to Master 1. Applicants from Études en France countries file on both Études en France and MyCandidature. Many Masters are taught in French; fully English-taught programmes include Financial Markets, Quantitative Economics, Research in Management, Research in Finance, International Business, English Track in Law, and the Master 2 in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics and in AI, Systems, Data.
Doctoral applications go through the SDOSE doctoral school (Sciences de la Décision, des Organisations, de la Société et de l'Échange), shared with MINES Paris - PSL.
Library: over 156,000 books and periodicals, 140 databases. Housing: about 800 places, including Saint-Ouen Louis Dain (190 homes), Saint-Ouen Liberté (160 studios) and Paris La Défense Arena (55 homes).
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