About Us

The Sorbonne Nouvelle University (French: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne) is a public liberal arts and humanities university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was completely overhauled and restructured in 1970.

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has sites at various locations in Paris. The main university centres are:

Chapel of the main Sorbonne building

Central Sorbonne Building — central administration offices, Literature

Entrance of the main building of the Sorbonne Nouvelle university, built in by Christian de Portzamparc, Campus Nation, Paris.

Nation – the main teaching site, named after the arrondissement (since 2022)

Maison de la Recherche – Located rue des Irlandais in the Latin Quarter, it is the university's main research centre and facility.

Bibliothèque Sainte Barbe and Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève – Located near the Pantheon in the Latin Quarter, those two research libraries are owned and managed by Sorbonne Nouvelle University.

The university also occupied several other locations until 2022:

Bièvre — houses teaching and research facilities for language study and the main staff and student refectories

Rue Saint-Jacques — French as a Foreign Language

Rue des Bernardins — The Linguistics and Phonetics department

Rue de l'École-de-Médecine — English Studies

Entrance of one of the buildings of the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, 5 rue de l'École-de-Médecine, Paris. Formerly buildings for the royal school of drawing under Louis XV

Rue Saint-Guillaume — Latin American Studies

Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny — Houses the E.S.I.T (School of Interpreting and Translation)

Asnières – located outside of Paris, where the German Studies department, now closed, was housed.[2]

In 2022, the Censier Campus, located rue Censier, was abandoned.