Université de Lille 1 — Bronze

The University of Lille -Nord de France (Université Lille - Nord de France), located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille. It includes a doctoral college that federates university institutes, engineering schools and research centres.

With more than one hundred thousand students, the Université Lille Nord de France is one of the five largest university federations in France.

The Université Lille 1 is a French university located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004). 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140 CNRS researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs. University Lille 1 is a member of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais that provides 400 doctorate dissertations every year.

University Lille 1 is established in 1854 in Lille with academic roots back to 1562. It later moves to Villeneuve d'Ascq in 1967. The University focuses on sciences and technologies. Law, business management and medical fields are taught in the independent campus of Université de Lille II, while literature and social sciences are taught as part of the independent campus of Université de Lille III. Altogether, the three university campus in Lille include more than 90,000 students and are the main parts of the Université Lille Nord de France.