Université de Limoges

The University of Limoges (Université de Limoges) is a public multidisciplinary university in Limoges, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France, formally constituted on 1 October 1968 from higher-education institutions whose medical lineage reaches back to 1626利摩日大学（Université de Limoges）是法国中部新阿基坦大区利摩日的一所公立多学科大学，于1968年10月1日由当地多所高等教育机构合并正式成立，其医学渊源可追溯至1626年

It enrolls about 17,900 students and employs roughly 2,000 teachers, researchers and teacher-researchers across five faculties, and it is the only university in the former Limousin region, with sites in eight towns of the Academy of Limoges该校约有1.79万名学生，聘有约2000名教师、研究人员与教师兼研究人员，下设五个学院，是前利穆赞地区唯一的大学，在利摩日学区的八座城镇设有教学点

History

• Higher education in Limoges traces its origin to the Abbey of Saint-Martial, founded in 848, whose school and scriptorium made the city one of the intellectual centres of medieval Europe利摩日的高等教育可追溯至848年创建的圣马夏尔修道院，其学校与缮写室使该城成为中世纪欧洲的知识中心之一
• In 1626 the city's apothecaries established a master's course in pharmacy, taught in a room of the Jacobins convent, and this course became the nucleus of the present Faculty of Pharmacy1626年，利摩日的药剂师在雅各宾修道院的一间厅堂里开设药学硕士学位课程，这一课程后来成为今日药学院的前身
• A Royal College of Medicine was founded in 1646 and developed into the Faculty of Medicine, giving Limoges one of the oldest uninterrupted medical teaching traditions in France1646年成立的皇家医学院后来发展为医学院，使利摩日拥有法国最古老且未曾中断的医学教学传统之一
• When the French Revolution closed the universities of the ancien régime in 1793, medical and pharmaceutical teaching in Limoges continued, which is why the university counts 1626 rather than 1968 as its oldest lineage1793年法国大革命关闭旧制度下的各大学时，利摩日的医学与药学教学仍在延续，因此该校把1626年而非1968年视为最久远的渊源
• The modern expansion began in 1909, when the city supported the creation of a School of Law and Notarial Studies, which became a free faculty of law in 1927现代扩张始于1909年，当时市政府支持创建法律与公证研究学校，该校于1927年成为自由法学院
• After the Second World War, university-level teaching was organised under the patronage of the University of Poitiers, starting with medicine and pharmacy in 1955 and exact and natural sciences in 1958二战后，大学层次的教学在普瓦捷大学的主导下组织起来，1955年先设医学与药学，1958年再设精密科学与自然科学
• Law and economics followed in 1966, and letters and human sciences were taught from the same year in the Collège littéraire universitaire on rue Albert-Thomas法律与经济学科于1966年设立，文学与人文科学同年开始在阿尔贝·托马街的大学文学院授课
• The Academy of Limoges was created in 1965 by detaching the district from the academies of Poitiers and Clermont-Ferrand, a decision that prepared the ground for an autonomous university利摩日学区于1965年从普瓦捷学区与克莱蒙费朗学区析出而设立，这一决定为建立自治大学铺平了道路
• The University of Limoges was formally constituted on 1 October 1968 by grouping the main higher education and research institutions of the city, at a time when it counted 7,000 students利摩日大学于1968年10月1日由该市主要高等教育与科研机构合并正式成立，当时共有7000名学生
• At its foundation the university combined four traditional faculties, law and economics, exact and natural sciences, medicine and pharmacy, and letters and human sciences, together with a university institute of technology建校时该校由四个传统学院组成，即法律与经济、精密科学与自然科学、医学与药学、文学与人文科学，另有一所大学技术学院
• Its statutes were adopted in 1970 by a constitutive assembly chaired by Robert Savy, a professor of law who later presided over the Limousin regional council该校章程于1970年由制宪会议通过，会议主席为法学教授罗贝尔·萨维，他后来担任利穆赞大区议会主席
• The creation of an autonomous university, separate from Poitiers, was supported by Jacques Chirac, then a secretary of state and deputy for Corrèze, and by Louis Longequeue, mayor of Limoges建立脱离普瓦捷的自治大学，得到时任国务秘书、科雷兹省议员雅克·希拉克与利摩日市长路易·隆格克的支援
• The National School of Industrial Ceramics, founded in Sèvres in 1893, moved to Limoges in 1979, reflecting the city's centuries-old porcelain and enamel industry国立工业陶瓷学院1893年创办于塞夫尔，1979年迁至利摩日，映照出该市数百年的瓷器与珐琅产业传统
• The Institute of Preparation for General Administration was created in 1986, and the National Engineering School of Limoges, known as ENSIL, was founded in 1991 with support from the Limousin region一般行政竞考预备学院于1986年创建，利摩日国立高等工程师学院（ENSIL）则在利穆赞大区支持下于1991年成立
• In 1993 ENSIL became a founding element of Ester Technopole, a science park designed to connect university research with local industry, particularly ceramics and electronics1993年，ENSIL成为埃斯特科技园的创始成员，该科技园旨在把大学研究与本地产业联系起来，尤其是陶瓷与电子产业
• The ceramics school joined the university in 2001, and the Limousin teacher-training institute, the former normal school, became a university component in 2005陶瓷学院于2001年并入大学，利穆赞教师培训学院这一原师范学校则于2005年成为大学组成部分
• A university business school, the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, was founded in 2007, and the university gained extended financial and staffing competences in January 2009大学企业管理学院于2007年成立，该校又于2009年1月获得扩大的财政与人事自主权
• A partnership foundation was created in 2011 to fund chairs of excellence and large innovative projects, while the computer engineering school 3iL attached its research to the university in 20102011年该校设立伙伴基金会，用于资助卓越教席与大型创新项目，计算机工程师学校3iL则于2010年把研究工作挂靠大学
• In January 2017 ENSIL and ENSCI merged into a single engineering school, ENSIL-ENSCI, which offers five departments covering ceramics, materials, electronics, water and computer engineering2017年1月，ENSIL与ENSCI合并为单一的工程师学校ENSIL-ENSCI，下设五个系，涵盖陶瓷、材料、电子、水利与计算机工程
• The university opened an international welcome centre in 2008 in the former army selection buildings on rue Saint-Martial, providing residence and services for foreign students and researchers2008年，该校在圣马夏尔街原陆军选拔站建筑内设立国际接待中心，为外国学生与研究人员提供住宿与服务
• In the 2020s the university has consolidated its sites around Limoges while maintaining teaching centres in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Tulle, Guéret, Égletons, Meymac, Ahun and La Souterraine进入2020年代，该校在整合利摩日本地校点的同时，仍保留在布里夫拉盖亚尔德、蒂勒、盖雷、埃格勒通、梅马克、阿安与苏泰兰的教学中心

Academics

• Teaching is organised in five faculties, Law and Economics, Medicine, Pharmacy, Letters and Human Sciences, and Sciences and Technology, which together cover law, health, humanities and engineering教学由五个学院组织，即法律与经济学院、医学院、药学院、文学与人文科学学院、科学与技术学院，合起来覆盖法律、健康、人文与工程等领域
• Six institutes and schools complete the offer, the Limousin University Institute of Technology, the IAE business school, IPAG, the ILFOMER rehabilitation institute, the INSPE teacher-training institute and the ENSIL-ENSCI engineering school另有六所学院与学校使学科布局更完整，即利穆赞大学技术学院、IAE企业管理学院、IPAG、ILFOMER康复职业学院、INSPE教师培训学院与ENSIL-ENSCI工程师学校
• The university enrolls 17,883 students and employs about 2,000 teachers, researchers and teacher-researchers, a scale typical of a medium-sized French provincial university该校注册学生17883人，聘有约2000名教师、研究人员与教师兼研究人员，规模属于法国外省中型大学的典型水平
• It awards bachelor, master and doctoral degrees organised on the European Bologna model, and its national diplomas are accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research该校按欧洲博洛尼亚模式颁发学士、硕士与博士学位，其国家文凭由法国高等教育与研究部认证
• The IAE Limoges, founded in 2007, delivers 14 management programmes to about 600 students each year, with specialisms in health management, accounting and finance, and innovation利摩日IAE企业管理学院成立于2007年，每年为约600名学生开设14个管理类课程，专长包括健康管理、会计金融与创新管理
• The Centre for Sports Law and Economics is both a training centre and a research laboratory, and it is known for its diploma for managers of professional sports clubs体育法与经济中心既是培训中心也是研究实验室，以其职业体育俱乐部经理文凭而闻名
• Research is grouped into five institutes, the largest of which is XLIM, a joint research unit with the CNRS numbered UMR 7252 and formed by the merger of four laboratories科研整合为五个研究所，其中最大的是XLIM，它是与法国国家科研中心共建的联合研究单位，编号UMR 7252，由四个实验室合并而成
• XLIM brings together more than 350 professors, CNRS researchers and doctoral students working in computer science, mathematics, optics, electromagnetism and electronicsXLIM汇集350余名教授、法国国家科研中心研究人员与博士生，研究领域包括计算机科学、数学、光学、电磁学与电子学
• The materials institute, now named IMPEO, combines the IRCER ceramics laboratory, the E2Lim environment laboratory and the GC2D civil engineering laboratory材料研究所现名IMPEO，整合了IRCER陶瓷实验室、E2Lim环境实验室与GC2D土木工程实验室
• OmegaHealth gathers the university's research units in biology, health, chemistry and environment, while the SHS institute covers human and social sciences and GIO studies the governance of institutionsOmegaHealth汇集该校生物学、健康、化学与环境领域的研究单位，SHS研究所覆盖人文与社会科学，GIO则研究机构治理
• Research priorities reflect the local industrial fabric, namely ceramics and materials, photonics and telecommunications, water and environment, and health and therapeutics研究重点与本地产业基础相呼应，即陶瓷与材料、光子学与电信、水与环境、健康与治疗学
• The university maintains 482 active cooperation agreements, including 241 conventions in Europe, 29 framework agreements in Africa and 34 in Latin America, and it hosted 2,276 international students in 2017-2018该校维持482项有效合作协议，其中欧洲241项协议、非洲29项框架协议、拉丁美洲34项框架协议，2017至2018学年接收了2276名国际学生
• ENSCI, the industrial ceramics school, was founded in 1893 and is one of the oldest French engineering schools specialised in ceramic materials and process engineering工业陶瓷学院ENSCI创办于1893年，是法国最早专门从事陶瓷材料与工艺工程的工程师学校之一
• ENSIL-ENSCI trains engineers in five departments and works closely with the porcelain, enamel and electronics industries of the Limoges regionENSIL-ENSCI在五个系培养工程师，并与利摩日地区的瓷器、珐琅与电子产业密切合作
• The Presses universitaires de Limoges publish scholarship in law, history, letters and the social sciences, and the university also supports the Limoges-based NGO Europa in European public policy research利摩日大学出版社出版法律、历史、文学与社会科学著作，该校还支持总部设在利摩日的欧罗巴非政府组织从事欧洲公共政策研究
• The Limousin University Institute of Technology, created with the university in 1968, offers two-year technical degrees and professional bachelor programmes in industrial and service fields利穆赞大学技术学院与大学同年于1968年创建，在工业与服务领域开设两年制技术文凭与职业学士课程
• The health campus places the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Pharmacy next to the Limoges university hospital, so that clinical teaching, hospital placements and biomedical research share a single site in the north of the city健康园区把医学院与药学院设在利摩日大学附属医院旁边，使临床教学、医院实习与生物医学研究集中于城市北部同一片区域
• Its 482 agreements include nine international joint diplomas with European partners, six with African partners, five with North American partners and four with Latin American partners该大学的482项协议包括与欧洲伙伴的9个国际联合文凭项目、与非洲伙伴的6个、与北美伙伴的5个以及与拉美伙伴的4个

Campus

• The university is a multi-site institution spread across the former Limousin region, with its main campuses in Limoges and teaching or research sites in seven other towns该校是一所多校点大学，分布于前利穆赞地区，主校区位于利摩日，另在七座城镇设有教学或研究点
• In Limoges the principal sites are the La Borie science campus, the law and economics faculty on the former Hôtel-Dieu site, and the medicine and pharmacy campus on rue du Docteur Marcland在利摩日，主要校点包括拉博里理学校区、位于旧主宫医院院址的法律与经济学院，以及马克朗医生街的医学与药学园区
• The law faculty occupies the exact location of a block of the Roman city, next to the university presidency and the Bibliothèque francophone multimédia法学院所在位置正是罗马时期城市街区的一角，毗邻大学校长办公处与法语多媒体图书馆
• The university council meets in the Salle Saint-Alexis, the 17th-century chapel of the old Hôtel-Dieu hospital, a building that links the institution to the city's medical history大学理事会在一间名为圣阿莱克西厅的17世纪旧主宫医院礼拜堂开会，这座建筑把学校与城市的医学史联系在一起
• The Bibliothèque francophone multimédia, a municipal multimedia library adjoining the law faculty, gives students access to collections in French-language literature, cinema and music与法学院毗邻的市立法语多媒体图书馆，为学生提供法语文学、电影与音乐馆藏
• The ENSIL-ENSCI engineering school is located at Ester Technopole, a science park on the outskirts of Limoges that hosts companies in ceramics, electronics and opticsENSIL-ENSCI工程师学校位于利摩日近郊的埃斯特科技园，园区内聚集了陶瓷、电子与光学企业
• Outside Limoges, the university maintains sites in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Égletons, Tulle, Guéret, Meymac, Ahun and La Souterraine, which host degree courses, apprenticeships and continuing education在利摩日之外，该校在布里夫拉盖亚尔德、埃格勒通、蒂勒、盖雷、梅马克、阿安与苏泰兰设有校点，开设学位课程、学徒制与继续教育
• Limoges is known for porcelain and enamel, and the national Adrien Dubouché museum, next to the city's ceramic district, gives materials students an exceptional collection to study利摩日以瓷器与珐琅闻名，国立阿德里安·杜布歇博物馆紧邻城市陶瓷区，为材料专业学生提供了极佳的馆藏研究对象
• The Limoges sites are linked by the city's public transport network, and the La Borie campus, the Hôtel-Dieu law site and the health campus together host most of the university's 17,883 students利摩日各校点由城市公共交通网络连接，拉博里校区、主宫医院法学院址与健康园区合起来容纳了该校17883名学生中的大多数

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of the table that it shares with more than one hundred institutions worldwide在2027年QS世界大学排名中，该校位列1401+区间，这是榜单末尾的开放式并列组，全球有一百多所院校同处这一区间
• It did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and it is also absent from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table该校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 1,457th, a position shaped by its research output, international collaboration and regional reputation在2026至2027年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第1457名，这一位置由科研产出、国际合作与地区声誉共同决定
• A 2009 comparison by the ministry of higher education placed Limoges fourth among the 83 French universities for licence completion by students entering in the first year, with a success rate of 39.5 percent2009年法国高等教育部的比较显示，按一年级入学者计算，利摩日的学士毕业率在83所法国大学中位列第四，成功率为39.5%
• The same study ranked Limoges 26th on a measure based on third-year students and ninth on a measure following students who completed their whole course at the same university同一项研究按三年级学生口径把利摩日列为第26名，按全程在同一所大学就读的学生口径则列为第9名
• Since July 2015 it has been a member of the Université confédérale Léonard de Vinci, a federal structure that also includes the universities of Poitiers and La Rochelle and several engineering schools自2015年7月起，该校加入列奥纳多·达·芬奇联邦大学，这一联邦结构还包括普瓦捷大学、拉罗谢尔大学与多所工程师学校
• The university is one of the main higher education institutions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and its research is concentrated in ceramics, photonics, water treatment and health该校是新阿基坦大区主要高等教育机构之一，研究集中于陶瓷、光子学、水处理与健康领域
• Within France it is recognised for medical and pharmaceutical teaching, and its health faculty cooperates closely with the Limoges university hospital在法国国内，该校以医学与药学教学著称，其健康学科与利摩日大学附属医院密切合作
• Its law faculty hosts the Centre for Sports Law and Economics, one of the few French centres combining sports law, sports economics and professional club management其法学院设有体育法与经济中心，是法国少数把体育法、体育经济与职业俱乐部管理结合起来的研究与教学机构之一
• Its engineering programmes are accredited by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur, the French body that authorises engineering degrees, and its health programmes lead to nationally recognised diplomas其工程类课程由法国工程师职衔委员会认证，该机构负责授权工程师文凭，其健康类课程则颁发国家承认的文凭

Student life

• Unlike the medieval universities of France, Limoges has no formal Latin motto or founding charter, and its ceremonies emphasise the 1968 foundation and the older medical lineage of 1626与法国的中世纪大学不同，利摩日大学没有正式的拉丁校训或建校特许状，其典礼同时强调1968年建校与1626年的医学渊源
• Student life is organised largely at faculty level through student bureaux and associations that run orientation weeks, social events and sports activities学生生活主要在学院层面组织，由各院学生理事会与社团举办迎新周、社交活动与体育活动
• The university sports service offers students access to facilities and competition in team and individual sports, and the surrounding Limousin countryside is used for hiking and outdoor activities大学体育服务机构为学生提供团队与个人项目的设施与比赛机会，周边的利穆赞乡野则用于徒步与户外活动
• The Centre for Sports Law and Economics organises conferences and professional meetings that bring sports managers, lawyers and club administrators to the law faculty体育法与经济中心举办法学会议与职业交流，把体育经理人、律师与俱乐部管理者请到法学院
• Limoges is a compact student city where the law faculty, the presidency and the multimedia library stand within a few minutes' walk of the historic centre利摩日是一座紧凑的学生城市，法学院、校长办公处与多媒体图书馆距历史中心仅几分钟步行路程
• CROUS Limoges provides student residences and university restaurants, and the international centre on rue Saint-Martial houses foreign students and researchers利摩日大学事务中心提供学生宿舍与大学食堂，圣马夏尔街的国际中心则为外国学生与研究人员提供住宿
• The city's porcelain and enamel museums, notably the Adrien Dubouché museum, and its annual decorative-arts markets give students a cultural life tied to craft and design该市的瓷器与珐琅博物馆，尤其是阿德里安·杜布歇博物馆，以及一年一度的装饰艺术市集，为学生提供了与工艺和设计相连的文化生活
• Like other French universities, Limoges takes part in the Fête de la science, created in 1991, when laboratories open to school classes and the public each October与其他法国大学一样，利摩日大学参加创建于1991年的科学节，每年10月向学校班级与公众开放实验室
• Student associations also draw on the Contribution Vie Étudiante et de Campus, a national levy created in 2018 that funds sports, culture, health and orientation projects on campus学生社团还获得“学生与校园生活贡献金”的支持，这一全国性征费创设于2018年，用于资助校园体育、文化、健康与迎新项目

Notable people

• Claude-Auguste Lamy (1820-1878), a chemist associated with the university, discovered the element thallium in 1861 while analysing selenium residues与该校有关的化学家克洛德-奥古斯特·拉米（1820至1878年）于1861年在分析硒残渣时发现了铊元素
• Nicole Belloubet (born 1955), a jurist and former rector, taught at Limoges and later served as French Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2022法学家、前大学区区长妮科尔·贝卢贝（1955年生）曾在利摩日任教，后于2020至2022年出任法国司法部长
• Jacques Fontanille (born 1948), a semiotician, presided over the university from 2005 to 2012 and held a chair at the Institut universitaire de France符号学家雅克·丰塔尼耶（1948年生）于2005至2012年担任该校校长，并持有法国大学研究院教席
• Bertrand Westphal (born 1962), a professor of comparative literature, developed the theory of geocriticism and directed the research team on human spaces and cultural interactions比较文学教授贝特朗·韦斯特法尔（1962年生）提出地理批评理论，并主持人类空间与文化互动研究团队
• Pierre Dusart, a mathematician at Limoges, is known for explicit bounds on the prime-counting function that sharpen estimates used in number theory利摩日大学数学家皮埃尔·杜萨尔以素数计数函数的显式界著称，其成果改进了数论中使用的估计
• Louis Pérouas (1923-2011), a historian of French Catholicism, taught at the university and wrote on religious practice in the Limousin region法国天主教史学家路易·佩鲁阿（1923至2011年）曾在该校任教，并撰写有关利穆赞地区宗教实践的著作
• Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (born 1951), a graduate in law, has been Prime Minister of Djibouti since 2013法学毕业生阿卜杜勒卡德尔·卡米勒·穆罕默德（1951年生）自2013年起担任吉布提总理
• Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (born 1954), an Argentine lawyer and diplomat, studied at Limoges and presided over the International Criminal Court from 2015 to 2018阿根廷律师与外交官西尔维娅·费尔南德斯·德古尔门迪（1954年生）曾就读于利摩日，并于2015至2018年担任国际刑事法院院长
• Mamadou Tangara (born 1965), a Gambian diplomat, studied at Limoges and later became Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Gambia冈比亚外交官马马杜·坦加拉（1965年生）曾就读于利摩日，后来出任冈比亚外交部长
• Amadou Koné (born 1953), an Ivorian writer and academic, studied at Limoges and has published novels and studies on African literature科特迪瓦作家与学者阿马杜·科内（1953年生）曾就读于利摩日，出版过多部小说与非洲文学研究著作
• David Jaomanoro (1953-2014), a Malagasy writer and playwright, studied at Limoges and became one of the leading voices of Malagasy theatre in French马达加斯加作家与剧作家达维德·雅奥马诺罗（1953至2014年）曾就读于利摩日，是法语马达加斯加戏剧的代表人物之一
• Faustine Fotso (born 1965), a Cameroonian computer scientist, environmentalist and politician, trained at Limoges and later founded an organisation promoting digital technology in rural Cameroon喀麦隆计算机科学家、环保人士与政治家福斯蒂娜·福措（1965年生）曾在利摩日学习，后来创立了推动喀麦隆农村数字技术的组织