University in France
Paris, Île-de-France, France
University profile
Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas is a public university in the heart of Paris, specialising in law, political science, economics, management, and information and communication sciences. It is the direct heir of the Faculty of Law and Economics of Paris and takes its name from its two historic sites, the Panthéon and the rue d'Assas, on either side of the Luxembourg Gardens. It has about 23,000 students, 1,500 teaching staff and 600 administrative staff.
Since 1 January 2022 the university has operated as an integrated group. It was the first university in France to bring four private higher-education institutions recognised as being of general interest (EESPIG) into a single structure: Efrei (a general engineering school for digital technology), ISIT (management and intercultural communication), the CFJ (Centre de formation des journalistes) and École W (communication and journalism). INA Campus also appears in the training catalogue, and the Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire (IRSEM) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces is a public partner institute.
Teaching is organised around six departments: public law and political science; private law and criminal sciences; Roman law and legal history; economics; management sciences; and information and communication sciences. The university offers more than 200 courses (about 340 programmes in its headline figures) from the licence to the master, together with international diplomas, preparation for competitive examinations and professional exams, and doctorates in law, political science, economics, management, information and communication sciences and computer science. Specialist institutes include the Institut des hautes études internationales (IHEI), the Institut français de presse (IFP), the Institut de préparation à l'administration générale (IPAG de Paris), the Institut de droit comparé de Paris and the Collège et École de droit.
Student life is organised across about 25 sites in Paris and at Melun, with more than 200 student associations, a sports service with 13 physical-education teachers, a student health service, a disability support unit (relais handicap), the Assas Lab' student incubator and a mentoring programme. The university allocates housing places to its master's students in residences of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and supports applications to CROUS residences.
Around 3,000 foreign students, about 14% of those enrolled, study at the university each year. The Assas Welcome Desk, located in the Assas centre, receives them, and the university holds the Bienvenue en France label awarded by Campus France. It runs international campuses branded Assas International in Paris, Mauritius and Singapore, with courses taught entirely in English, and takes part in the 4EU+ European university alliance. Courses on the French campuses are taught in French.
Students who are not nationals of the European Union, the European Economic Area, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra or Quebec are generally subject to differentiated registration fees of between 2,902 EUR (licence) and 3,950 EUR (master) per year. Partially exempted students pay between 178 EUR (licence) and 255 EUR (master) per year. Payment is made online by card, in three instalments for amounts above 450 EUR. Refund and exemption conditions are set out in the university's reference document.
The Contribution vie étudiante et de campus (CVEC) is a separate compulsory contribution, set at 105 EUR for 2026-2027, paid to CROUS before registration; the attestation is required to complete enrolment. Scholarship holders on social criteria, refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, asylum seekers and professionalisation-contract trainees are exempt but must still obtain an exemption certificate.
The FSDIE (fonds de solidarité et de développement des initiatives étudiantes), funded by the CVEC, provides one-off financial assistance to students in economic difficulty. For 2026-2027 the application campaign runs from 21 September to 4 November 2026, with the commission on 16 November 2026. Only complete files are examined. The FSDIE Mobilité supports students selected by the international affairs service for academic mobility abroad, subject to income conditions.
CROUS social workers receive students by appointment at the Assas centre; CROUS offers one-off and annual aid, meals at 1 EUR for scholarship holders and students in difficulty (3.30 EUR for others), and the Paris AILE installation aid of 500 to 1,000 EUR for eligible students. The CAF Paris 'Aide aux projets jeunes' scheme is also signposted.
With the support of the Fondation Panthéon-Assas and the CVEC, the university provides housing for master's students in Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris residences: Résidence Julie-Victoire Daubie (24 m2 studios, 680 to 695 EUR rent), Maison des Provinces de France (15 m2 rooms, 673 EUR) and Fondation Avicenne (studios of 15 and 17 m2, 430 to 590 EUR).
The university points international students to the Eiffel Excellence Scholarship programme (master, doctorate) and the Fondation Simone et Ernestine Dreyfus grant. Outgoing students can apply for supervised and individual mobility grants. See the financial and social aid page, the mobility grants page and the fees and aid page for international students.
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View scholarships for Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas →Applications for first-year licence places (standard or double-degree licence, international pathway, and the law and economics colleges) go through the national Parcoursup platform. For 2026 entry, wishes were registered from 19 January to 12 March 2026. Non-French-speaking students subject to the national pre-registration procedure (DAP) must pass the French-language assessment, which the university organises as a TCF-DAP centre once a year in January.
Students from another university who wish to continue in the same licence mention (law, political science, economics, management, information-communication, AES) apply for a transfer. Graduates of higher education (schools, BTS, university) entering a different field apply for an equivalence. Holders of foreign diplomas, whatever their nationality, apply for an equivalence and attach their transcripts with a sworn French translation where the original is not in French. Some entries have specific procedures, including the third year of economics and management (management sciences pathway), the professional licence in Management des organisations, the law licence for high-level athletes and the licence d'administration publique (LAP).
Applications for L2, L3, M1 and M2 are sent to the relevant registrar's office or institute. The file should include transcripts for all post-baccalauréat years, the foreign diploma(s), a French-language certificate for programmes taught in French, and, for diplomas outside the ECTS system, an ENIC-NARIC attestation of comparability. Where a Campus France procedure (Études en France) exists in the applicant's country of residence, it runs in parallel for the visa. Admission depends on academic level and capacity, and applying to several institutions is recommended. Students holding foreign diplomas who apply to a master's must show French at level C1 for the first year and C2 for the second year.
Applications to the first year for 2026-2027 are made exclusively on the national Mon Master platform from 17 February to 16 March 2026 for holders of (or students enrolled in) a national licence or equivalent. Candidates not eligible for Mon Master apply on the university's own platform in the same period. Most master's programmes select at entry to the first year. Applications to the second year (limited to two pathways per candidate) were open from 11 to 29 May 2026, with different calendars for some programmes (for example International Human Resources Management, 2 February to 29 March 2026; Défense et dynamiques industrielles, 30 March to 17 April 2026; Protection sociale et rémunérations, 13 to 30 April 2026; Droits français et européen, 11 May to 10 July 2026). The file includes a CV, a covering letter, copies of diplomas and transcripts.
Doctorates are awarded in law, political science, economics, management, information and communication sciences and computer science, within the national doctoral framework (arrêté of 25 August 2016 as amended on 26 August 2022), and registration and re-registration take place online. The university has a thesis charter.
Teaching on the French campuses is in French, and applicants must hold a recognised French-language diploma at the required level by the application deadline. Programmes on the Assas International campuses, including the LL.M. courses in Paris, are taught entirely in English.
Facilities include libraries on the main sites, a sports hall at the Assas centre with sports facilities near each centre, a nurse's office at the Assas, Vaugirard and Melun sites, and the student rest and relaxation spaces called La Bulle at Assas and Melun.
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