Université Savoie Mont Blanc

University in France

Université Savoie Mont Blanc (English: University Savoie Mont Blanc, a.k.a. USMB) is a public university in the Haute-Savoie and Savoie departments of France, with one campus in Annecy, Haute-Savoie and two near Chambéry, Savoie.

Campuses

The university was officially founded in 1979 from several colleges founded in the 1960s and 1970s. To avoid a straight choice between the two biggest towns of the Savoie/Haute-Savoie departments, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study. The university has three campuses:

• The Annecy campus is the university's "technology institute" (IUT), and teaches engineering-related subjects and business and administration related subjects. Here is located the faculty of economics and management (IMUS, Institut de Management de l'Université de Savoie).
• Jacob-Bellecombette (1.5 km south of Chambéry) is the campus for students of languages, literature, social sciences, law and economics. It has a library, sports hall and one cafeteria.
• The Technolac campus at Bourget-du-Lac (12 km north of Chambéry) teaches science.

In addition, the university's presidence and administrative buildings are located in Chambéry.

History

Head office in Chambéry

• Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of Savoy. The University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an école préparatoire, a school preparing students to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and Turin took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563.
• The annexation of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an académie between 1860 and 1920, but not a university.
• During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy Collège Scientifique Universitaire (CSU) was created, then a Collège Littéraire Universitaire (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the Centre Universitaire de Savoie (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the Institut Universitaire Technologique (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the Université de Savoie and then in May 2014 Université Savoie Mont Blanc ^[1]

Foreign students

After Paris I, Pantheon-Assas University and Strasbourg III, Savoy has the fourth-highest number of Erasmus exchange students in France. The school of international relations has signed 228 conventions with universities in 82 countries, and the university takes more than 1,000 foreign students per year overall.

• Europe 71%
  • United Kingdom 17%
  • Italy 10.5%
  • Germany 10%
  • Spain 8%
  • Sweden 5%
• North America: 7%
• Eastern Europe (Pays d'Europe centrale, orientale et nouveaux États indépendants de l'ex-Union soviétique): 5%
• Asia: 6%
• North Africa/Middle-East: 5%
• Latin America: 2.5%
• Africa: 2.5%
• Australia/New Zealand: 1%

Gallery

Chambéry campus

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  Sports hall
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  Grand amphithéâtre (lecture theatre)
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  University library
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  University restaurant, Le Satellite (burnt down in July 2008)
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  Church of Jacob-Bellecombette, next to campus

Annecy campus

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  Campus
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  IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc

Departments

Annecy

• IUT d'Annecy
  • Département Techniques de Commercialisation
  • Département Mesures Physiques
  • Département Génie Mécanique et Productique
  • Département Génie Électrique et Informatique Industrielle
  • Département Réseaux et Télécoms
• IAE Savoie Mont Blanc
• Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Jacob-Bellecombette

• School of literature, languages and human sciences (LLSH)
• School of law and business
• IAE Savoie Mont Blanc

Bourget-du-Lac

• School of applied sciences
• IUT de Chambéry
• Polytech Annecy-Chambéry

Notable people

Faculty

• Michel Soutif (1921 – 2016) - physicist and educator

Alumni

• Aicha Elbasri (born in Morocco) - writer and former United Nations official
• Surano (born 1955) - geophysicist and volcanologist from Indonesia
• Ulla Tørnæs (born 1962, in Esbjerg) - Danish politician
• Yang Lan (born 1968, Beijing) - media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host
• Bruno Wu (born 1966) - Chinese entrepreneur
• Xavier Roseren (born 1970, in Chamonix) - shopkeeper and politician LREM
• Yann Barthès (born 1974) - journalist, TV presenter and producer
• Émilie Bonnivard (born 1980) politician LR
• Léo Trespeuch (born 1987) - snowboarding champion
• Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990) - sprinter
• Clément Noël (born 1997) - alpine ski racer

Recipients of honorary degree

• Norberto Bobbio (1909 – 2004) - Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought
• Fabiola Gianotti (born 1960) - Italian experimental particle physicist; first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

References

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External links

• Official homepage of the University Savoie Mont Blanc