Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3

Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, UPVM) is a public university in Montpellier, southern France, specialising in the arts, languages, humanities and social sciences and named after the poet Paul Valéry.保罗·瓦莱里大学蒙彼利埃第三大学（Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3，简称 UPVM）是法国南部蒙彼利埃的一所公立大学，专长于艺术、语言、人文与社会科学，校名取自诗人保罗·瓦莱里。

It is one of the successor institutions of the University of Montpellier founded by papal bull in 1289, became a separate university in 1970 and has occupied a green campus on the route de Mende since 1966.它是 1289 年由教皇敕书创办的蒙彼利埃大学的继承院校之一，1970 年成为独立大学，自 1966 年起使用芒德路上一处绿地环绕的校园。

The university sits in the 1201-1400 band of both the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the Times Higher Education ranking 2027, is placed 1,233rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News table, and OpenAlex indexes 3,357 works and 30,569 citations for it.该校同时处于 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名的第 1201-1400 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》榜单中排名第 1,233 位，OpenAlex 收录其成果 3,357 篇、引用 30,569 次，三项指标都显示它是一所以教学为主、科研规模中等的人文类大学。

History

• The University of Montpellier was founded on 26 October 1289 by a bull of Pope Nicholas IV that joined the schools of medicine, arts and law, making it the third university created in France after Paris and Toulouse.蒙彼利埃大学于 1289 年 10 月 26 日依教皇尼古拉四世的敕书成立，把医学、艺学与法学三所学校合为一体，成为继巴黎与图卢兹之后法国创办的第三所大学，也是欧洲仍在运行的最古老大学之一。
• Its medical school, which taught anatomy on executed bodies and drew students from across Europe, gave Montpellier a reputation that outlasted the medieval university itself.其医学院以解剖死刑犯遗体授课，吸引了全欧洲的学生，为蒙彼利埃赢得的名声甚至超过了中世纪大学本身。
• The Revolution abolished the French universities in 1793, and Montpellier's faculties survived for a century as separate schools of medicine, law, science and letters attached to the state, while the Napoleonic lycées and the grandes écoles took over professional training.1793 年大革命废除了法国各大学，蒙彼利埃的各学院在此后一个世纪里以附属于国家的医学、法学、理学与文学专科学校形式存续。
• A law of 1896 re-established the universities of France, and Montpellier regained a single university that reunited its faculties under one rector.1896 年的一项法律重建了法国各大学，蒙彼利埃重新拥有了一所把各学院置于同一校长之下的完整大学。
• In 1939 a new Faculty of Humanities was built in the city centre facing Saint-Pierre's Cathedral on the rue du Cardinal de Cabrières and inaugurated by its dean Augustin Fliche.1939 年，新的文学院在市中心圣皮埃尔大教堂对面的卡布里埃枢机街落成，由院长奥古斯坦·弗利什（Augustin Fliche）主持启用。
• The expansion of the student body after 1945 left that building overcrowded, and the university began planning a modern campus on the northern edge of the city.1945 年之后学生人数激增，使那座建筑不敷使用，学校开始在城市北缘筹划一处现代校园。
• In 1966 the university moved to a campus of more than 10 hectares on the route de Mende, close to the new site being built for the science university.1966 年，学校迁往芒德路上占地 10 余公顷的校园，毗邻正在为理科大学兴建的新校址。
• The architecture was deliberately differentiated from the neighbouring science campus and large green spaces were preserved, which still gives the site its park-like character.校舍的建筑风格刻意与相邻的理科校园区分，并保留了大片绿地，这使该校区至今保持着公园般的气质。
• The events of May 1968 and the Edgar Faure law that followed broke up the old university, and in 1970 its faculties were divided into Montpellier I, II and III.1968 年五月风暴及其后颁布的埃德加·富尔法瓦解了旧大学，1970 年其学院被分为蒙彼利埃第一、第二与第三大学。
• The arts, languages, social sciences and humanities faculties became the University of Montpellier III, which added the name of Paul Valéry in homage to the Sète-born writer who had studied in the city.艺术、语言、社会科学与人文学科的学院组成了蒙彼利埃第三大学，并加挂保罗·瓦莱里之名，以纪念这位曾在蒙彼利埃求学的塞特作家。
• In 1986 a new teaching building with three lecture theatres, the largest seating 800 students, was added to the route de Mende campus.1986 年，芒德路校区增建了一座含三个阶梯教室的教学楼，其中最大的可容纳 800 名学生。
• A second campus opened in Béziers in 1998 on the site of the former Duguesclin barracks, extending the university into the Hérault hinterland.1998 年，第二校区在贝济耶的原迪盖克兰兵营用地上启用，把大学延伸到埃罗省内陆。
• From 2002 the students and programmes in Nîmes were transferred to the new Nîmes University, ending Montpellier III's presence in the Gard capital.自 2002 年起，尼姆的学生与专业移交新成立的尼姆大学，蒙彼利埃第三大学由此结束了在加尔省首府的办学。
• In March 2006 the campus was blockaded during the national protest against the first employment contract, and the student elections were postponed to 30 and 31 May because of the occupation of lecture halls.2006 年 3 月，在全国反对“首次雇用合同”的抗议中校园被封锁，由于讲堂被占领，学生会选举推迟至 5 月 30 日与 31 日举行。
• In 2015 Montpellier I and Montpellier II merged to form the University of Montpellier, while Paul-Valéry chose to remain independent and dropped the numeral from its name.2015 年，蒙彼利埃第一与第二大学合并为蒙彼利埃大学，而保罗·瓦莱里选择保持独立，并从校名中去掉了数字。
• The university joined the Coimbra Group, the network of long-established European multidisciplinary universities, which placed it alongside institutions such as Uppsala University, Groningen University, Salamanca University and the University of Poitiers.该校加入科英布拉集团这一由历史悠久的欧洲多学科大学组成的网络，该集团 1985 年成立，成员包括普瓦捷、格罗宁根与萨拉曼卡等院校。
• In 2020 the pandemic closed the campus and moved lectures online, and the university used the period to expand its distance-learning platform for language teaching.2020 年疫情使校园关闭、课程转为线上，学校利用这一时期扩充面向语言教学的远程教学平台。
• The university has announced the relocation of its psychology and sociology department to the Saint-Charles site in central Montpellier, a former military site being converted for academic use.该校已宣布把心理学与社会学系迁往蒙彼利埃市中心的圣夏尔校区，那片场地原为军事用地，正被改造为教学空间。

Academics

• Six teaching and research units make up the university, covering letters, arts, philosophy and psychoanalysis, languages and cultures, human and environmental sciences, social and organisational sciences, subject and societal sciences, and education.该校由六个教学与研究单位组成，涵盖文学、艺术、哲学与精神分析，语言与文化，人类与环境科学，社会与组织科学，学科与社会科学，以及教育学。
• A UFR is the French faculty-level unit that joins teaching to research, and each of Paul-Valéry's six units runs its own degrees, laboratories and doctoral supervision in a defined field.教学与研究单位是法国大学中把教学与科研结合起来的学院级建制，保罗·瓦莱里的六个单位各自在特定领域开设学位项目、管理实验室并承担博士指导。
• The languages and cultures unit teaches English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, together with applied foreign languages for translators and international business.语言与文化单位教授英语、德语、西班牙语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、阿拉伯语、汉语、日语与俄语，并开设面向翻译与国际商务的应用外语专业。
• The applied foreign languages degree, known in French as LEA, pairs two foreign languages with law, economics or management and is one of the programmes most sought after by employers.应用外语学位在法语中简称 LEA，把两门外语与法律、经济或管理结合起来，是雇主最青睐的专业之一。
• Psychology, sociology and anthropology are grouped in the unit for subject and societal sciences, one of the university's largest concentrations of students and research staff.心理学、社会学与人类学集中在学科与社会科学单位，是该校学生与研究人员最集中的板块之一。
• The education unit trains teachers and sports instructors and includes mathematics teaching, which supplies primary and secondary schools in the Montpellier academy.教育单位培养教师与体育指导员，并包含数学教学方向，为蒙彼利埃学区的中小学输送师资。
• The Institute of Information Technoscience links communication studies, document engineering and digital media, and it reflects the university's long engagement with information professions.信息科技研究所把传播学、文献工程与数字媒体联系起来，体现了该校在信息职业领域的长期投入。
• Nearly 20,000 students are enrolled, a number that makes Paul-Valéry one of the larger humanities universities in France outside Paris and includes students on the Béziers campus as well as those in distance programmes.该校注册学生接近 20,000 人，这使保罗·瓦莱里成为巴黎以外规模较大的法国人文类大学之一，其文学、语言与艺术专业的招生规模在全国同类院校中名列前茅。
• Research is organised in doctoral schools covering languages, literatures and cultures, humanities and social sciences, and education, and doctorates are awarded in each of those fields.科研由覆盖语言、文学与文化，人文与社会科学，以及教育学的博士生院组织，各领域均可授予博士学位。
• The Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, the university's own academic press, publishes monographs and journals in literature, history, linguistics and Mediterranean studies.地中海大学出版社是该校自设的学术出版社，出版文学、历史、语言学与地中海研究领域的专著与期刊。
• Language teaching is supported by a multimedia centre and by self-access laboratories where students practise listening and interpreting with native-speaker recordings.语言教学由多媒体中心与自主学习实验室支持，学生在其中借助母语者录音练习听力与口译。
• The university awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees under the European Bologna system, and its credits transfer across French and European universities.该校按欧洲博洛尼亚体系授予学士、硕士与博士学位，本科学制通常三年、硕士两年，其学分可在法国及欧洲各大学之间转换。
• Several master's programmes are taught partly in English, particularly in cultural studies and Mediterranean studies, and they attract students from North Africa and the Middle East.若干硕士项目部分以英语授课，尤以文化研究与地中海研究为多，吸引来自北非与中东的学生。
• Teacher training is a core activity, and the university prepares candidates for the French national teaching competitions in letters, languages, history and physical education.师资培养是核心业务，学校为文学、语言、历史与体育等科目的法国国家教师资格考试培训考生。
• The university library system includes a central library on the route de Mende campus and subject libraries in the teaching units, with a separate collection in Béziers.大学图书馆系统包括芒德路校区的总馆与各教学单位的分馆，并在贝济耶设有独立馆藏，读者可跨馆借阅，语言与文学类藏书是其重点。
• Academic staff are appointed nationally as lecturers and professors, and promotion depends on publication, supervision of doctorates and participation in research centres.教职人员按国家制度聘为讲师与教授，晋升取决于发表成果、指导博士论文以及参与研究中心工作。
• International exchange runs through Erasmus agreements with universities across Europe and through cooperation with Francophone institutions in Africa and the Maghreb.国际交流通过 Erasmus 项目与欧洲各大学的协议，以及与非洲和马格里布法语区院校的合作开展。
• The university's research centres include units on Mediterranean societies, on language sciences and on the history of art, several of them shared with the national research centre.该校的研究中心包括地中海社会、语言科学以及艺术史等方向，其中若干与国家科研中心共建。
• Continuing education and distance programmes allow working adults to obtain diplomas in languages, communication and social work without attending the campus full time.继续教育与远程项目使在职成年人无需全时到校即可取得语言、传播与社会工作方面的文凭。

Campus

• The main campus lies on the route de Mende in the north of Montpellier, on more than 10 hectares of pine and plane trees about four kilometres from the city centre.主校区位于蒙彼利埃北部的芒德路，占地 10 余公顷，遍植松树与悬铃木，距市中心约四公里，校园不设围墙，师生可从多个入口直接进入街区。
• Its buildings are low, deliberately unlike the neighbouring science campus, and are spaced apart so that green corridors run between the teaching blocks.校舍高度较低，刻意与相邻的理科校园形成区别，楼宇之间留有间距，使绿廊贯穿各教学区块。
• The 1986 building with three lecture theatres, one seating 800, remains the largest teaching space and hosts the university's main public lectures.1986 年建成、含三个阶梯教室的教学楼仍是最大的教学空间，其中最大的教室可容纳 800 人，学校的主要公开讲座在此举行。
• The Maison des Étudiants stands on the north side of the campus near the Vert Bois university restaurant, and it houses associations, rehearsal rooms and the Jean Moulin hall.学生之家位于校园北侧、靠近绿林大学餐厅，内设社团活动室、排练厅以及让·穆兰厅。
• The campus also has a university restaurant at Vert Bois, a preventive medicine service and sports grounds, and its playing fields are shared with the physical education students.校园还设有绿林大学餐厅、预防医学服务处与运动场，其球场与体育教育专业学生共用。
• The Béziers campus occupies the former Duguesclin barracks and has its own lecture rooms and library, serving students from the western Hérault about 70 kilometres from Montpellier, who can travel between the two sites by regional train.贝济耶校区占用原迪盖克兰兵营，设有独立的讲堂与图书馆，服务埃罗省西部约 70 公里外的学生，两地之间可乘区域列车往返。
• The campus is linked to the city by tram and bus lines, and students reach the historic centre, the Saint-Roch station and the beaches by public transport.校园通过有轨电车与公交线路连接市区，电车 1 号线在校园附近设站，学生可乘公共交通前往历史中心、圣罗克火车站与海滩。
• Montpellier's old town, with its medical faculty, the Fabre museum and the Place de la Comédie, lies a short ride south of the campus.蒙彼利埃老城连同其医学院、法布尔博物馆与喜剧广场，位于校园以南不远处。
• The campus also houses the Musée des moulages, a collection of plaster casts of medieval sculpture assembled for the Faculty of Letters, which opened on 23 May 1890 and was later transferred to the Paul-Valéry site.校园内还设有石膏模型博物馆（Musée des moulages），收藏为文学院搜集的中世纪雕塑石膏翻模，该馆于 1890 年 5 月 23 日落成，后迁至保罗·瓦莱里校区。
• Because the campus was planned in the 1960s, it has abundant parking and sports fields but few of the cafés and shops that surround inner-city universities.由于校园规划于 1960 年代，停车位与运动场地充裕，却缺少市中心大学周边常见的咖啡馆与商铺。

Reputation

• Paul-Valéry is listed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the same band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, a position it shares with many French universities outside the grandes écoles system.保罗·瓦莱里位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中也处于同一区间。
• The university is placed 1,233rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, its strongest showing among the major global tables.该校在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 1,233 位，是其在主要全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• It does not appear in the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities, which concentrates on science and medicine rather than on the humanities.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜侧重理工与医学，而非人文学科。
• Its membership of the Coimbra Group places it in a network of older European universities that includes Poitiers, Salamanca, Groningen and Uppsala.该校的科英布拉集团成员身份使其进入一个由历史悠久的欧洲大学组成的网络，成员包括普瓦捷、萨拉曼卡、格罗宁根与乌普萨拉。
• In France the university is known for languages, literature and the arts, and its applied foreign languages degrees supply translators, interpreters and international trade staff.在法国国内，该校以语言、文学与艺术见长，其应用外语学位为翻译、口译与国际贸易岗位输送人才。
• French national evaluation judges the university through the campaign of research contracts and through the review of each unit by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education rather than through global tables, and its humanities units are assessed on publications and doctoral completions.法国的国家评估通过研究合同评审以及高等教育评估机构对各单位的外部审查来判断这所大学，而非依赖全球榜单，其人文学科单位以发表成果与博士毕业情况接受考核。
• OpenAlex indexes 3,357 works and 30,569 citations for the university, a research record weighted towards the humanities and social sciences, where publication volumes are naturally lower.OpenAlex 收录该校 3,357 篇成果与 30,569 次引用，其科研记录偏重人文与社会科学，而这两个领域的发表量本就较低。
• The university holds no Nobel laureates, and its standing rests on teaching in the arts and languages, on its doctoral schools and on the academic press rather than on prizes.该校没有诺贝尔奖得主，其地位建立在艺术与语言教学、博士生院以及学术出版社之上，而非奖项。
• Within Montpellier it competes with the re-formed Montpellier University, which absorbed the law, medicine and science faculties and now ranks far higher in the global tables.在蒙彼利埃市内，它与重组后的蒙彼利埃大学竞争，后者吸收了法学、医学与理学院系，在全球榜单上的排名远高于它。
• Its arts and humanities programmes are regularly chosen by students from North Africa and the Middle East, which gives the campus a markedly international and Francophone character.其艺术与人文学科项目常被北非与中东学生选中，这使校园带有明显的国际化与法语区色彩。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and it is identified instead by the name of Paul Valéry and by the Mediterranean and multilingual character of its teaching.该校没有正式校训，其身份标识来自保罗·瓦莱里之名，以及教学中的地中海与多语种特色，校方在对外宣传中也以“语言与人文之城”自况。
• The Maison des Étudiants is the centre of student life and hosts dance, music and theatre classes, first-aid training, film screenings, debates and exhibitions throughout the year.学生之家是学生生活的中心，全年开设舞蹈、音乐与戏剧课程，并举办急救培训、电影放映、辩论与展览。
• Student associations such as Asso7, ECUME and l'Écran et son Double organise cultural events, film clubs and festivals on campus.Asso7、ECUME 与“银幕及其重影”等学生社团在校园内组织文化活动、电影俱乐部与艺术节。
• Representative organisations include UNEF, Sud étudiant and UNI, which contest elections to the university council and the academic bodies each year.代表性学生组织包括全国大学生联合会、南方学生与全国跨校联合会，它们每年角逐校务委员会与学术机构的席位。
• Turnout in the student elections of May 2006 was about 5 per cent on the Montpellier campus and nearly 20 per cent in Béziers, a contrast that still illustrates the two campuses' different cultures.2006 年 5 月的学生选举中，蒙彼利埃校区投票率约为 5%，贝济耶校区接近 20%，这一反差至今仍显示两个校区的文化差异。
• The Jean Moulin hall hosts concerts, student evenings and the cultural days that mark the start of each academic year.让·穆兰厅以二战抵抗运动领袖让·穆兰命名，承办音乐会、学生晚会以及标志学年开始的文化日，也是全校最大规模的室内集会场地。
• Montpellier's student quarter, its cheap restaurants and its tram network give the campus a social life that extends well beyond the route de Mende.蒙彼利埃的学生街区、平价餐馆与有轨电车网络为校园提供了远超芒德路范围的社会生活。
• Montpellier is one of France's largest student cities, with roughly one resident in four enrolled in higher education, and Paul-Valéry draws on a student scene that includes medicine, law, science, Montpellier Business School and several engineering schools.蒙彼利埃是法国规模最大的学生城市之一，大约每四名居民中就有一人在接受高等教育，保罗·瓦莱里所处的学生圈还包括医学、法学、理科、蒙彼利埃商学院以及多所工程师学校，城市本身因此成为课堂之外的第二所大学。
• The university's location between the Mediterranean and the Cévennes shapes its student culture, and hiking, sailing and beach trips are organised by the sports service each semester.地处地中海与塞文山脉之间，这一位置塑造了该校的学生文化，体育服务处每学期组织徒步、帆船与海滩出游。
• Because many students commute from the city and the surrounding towns, campus life concentrates in the daytime, and the Maison des Étudiants keeps evening events deliberately early.由于许多学生从市区与周边市镇通勤而来，校园生活集中在白天，学生之家也特意把晚间活动安排得较早。

Notable people

• Paul Valéry, born in Sète in 1871 and buried there in 1945, studied law in Montpellier and wrote the poem Le Cimetière marin, and the university has borne his name since 1970.保罗·瓦莱里 1871 年生于塞特、1945 年葬于该地，曾在蒙彼利埃学习法律并写下《海滨墓园》，1925 年当选法兰西学术院院士，学校自 1970 年起以他命名。
• Augustin Fliche, dean of the Faculty of Humanities, inaugurated the 1939 building on the rue du Cardinal de Cabrières and was a historian of the medieval papacy.文学院院长奥古斯坦·弗利什主持了 1939 年卡布里埃枢机街校舍的启用，他本人是中世纪教廷史研究者。
• Tahar Rahim, born in 1981, studied at Paul-Valéry before winning the César Award for best actor in 2010 for his role in A Prophet.塔哈·拉希姆（Tahar Rahim）生于 1981 年，曾就读于保罗·瓦莱里，后凭《预言者》一片于 2010 年获得凯撒奖最佳男演员。
• Élisabeth Guigou, born in 1946, was French Minister of Justice from 1997 to 2000 and later Minister of Employment, and she studied at the university before entering the senior civil service.伊丽莎白·吉古（Élisabeth Guigou）生于 1946 年，1997 至 2000 年任法国司法部长，后任就业部长，进入高级文官系统前曾在该校就读。
• Thierry Ardisson, born in 1949, is a television host and producer who studied at Montpellier III before building one of French television's best-known talk-show formats.蒂埃里·阿尔迪松（Thierry Ardisson）生于 1949 年，是电视主持人与制作人，在打造法国最知名的脱口秀形式之前曾就读于蒙彼利埃第三大学。
• Brenda Marie Osbey, born in New Orleans in 1957, is a poet who served as Poet Laureate of Louisiana and studied at the university while living in France.布伦达·玛丽·奥斯贝（Brenda Marie Osbey）1957 年生于新奥尔良，是诗人，曾任路易斯安那州桂冠诗人，旅居法国期间在该校学习。
• Jean Joubert, a novelist and poet who taught at the university, won the Prix Renaudot in 1978 for his novel L'Homme de sable.在该校任教的小说家与诗人让·茹贝尔（Jean Joubert）于 1978 年凭小说《沙之人》获得勒诺多文学奖。
• Marc Gabolde, an Egyptologist known for his work on the Amarna period, teaches at the university and has published on the parentage of Tutankhamun.以阿马尔那时期研究著称的埃及学家马克·加博尔德（Marc Gabolde）在该校任教，发表过关于图坦卡蒙血统的论著。
• Marlène Zarader, a philosopher who taught at Paul-Valéry until her death in 2025, wrote on Heidegger, Levinas and the Greek sources of contemporary thought.哲学家玛莱娜·扎拉德尔（Marlène Zarader）在保罗·瓦莱里任教直至 2025 年去世，著有关于海德格尔、列维纳斯与当代思想希腊根源的研究。
• Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, an Iranian scholar of comparative literature and theatre, took his doctorate at the university and became a professor emeritus there.伊朗比较文学与戏剧学者艾哈迈德·卡米亚比·马斯克（Ahmad Kamyabi Mask）在该校取得博士学位，后成为该校荣休教授。