Discover all you need to know about student reception in 50 university cities in France

Welcoming international students accordingly is still France’s top priority. Every year, Campus France provides students with info sheets about student reception and life in major university cities in France. These sheets help you find useful information to discover your city of studies and prepare your arrival in a new lifestyle in France.

Practical information about reception and student life...

City factsheets provide practical information about:

• Welcome services for international students (welcome desks, international tutoring, and more)
• Accommodation
• Transports
• Administrative paperwork at your arrival (registration in your institution, residence permit, and more)
• Everyday life (bank, health, work/internship, and others)
• Social life, tourism and culture
• Exchange and sharing with the community of alumni in the France Alumni social network.

Factsheets are updated every year before the start of the academic year. They’re available in French and in English.

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... In 50 university cities in France

For the academic year 2024, city factsheets are available for 50 university cities in metropolitan and overseas France: 

Aix-en-Provence, Albi, Amiens, Angers, Annecy, Arras, and the Artois region (Béthune, Lens, Liévin, Douai), Avignon, Besançon, Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Chambéry and Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Corte, Dijon, Dunkerque, and the Opal Coast (Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Omer), Fort-de-France and Martinique, Grenoble, Cayenne, and French Guiana, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Le Mans, Lille, Limoges, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Montpellier, Mulhouse, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Nîmes, Nouméa and New Caledonia, Orléans, Paris and the Ile-de-France region, Pau, Perpignan, Pointe-à-Pitre, and Guadeloupe, Poitiers, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Saint-Denis and Réunion, Saint-Etienne, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse, Tours, Troyes, Valenciennes.

Prepare your arrival in France by downloading the factsheet of your city of studies in France