100,000 students at the Aix-Marseille Academy are able to enjoy university education, consular training, preparatory classes, sections for higher technicians and university technology institutes.

High-level professional training courses attest to the commitment to meet the expectations of the business world. The Marseille metropolis offers a comprehensive range of professional university-level qualifications, professional university institutes (IUP), professional degrees, IUT departments, and has a Business Administration Institute.

International education

Marseille Provence Metropolis is rolling out an offering for students that would like to receive international schooling: bilingual nursery and primary school classes, European sections in secondary schools, and international sections in colleges.

This offering makes it possible to check the growing level of appeal: one out of every three students comes from another academy and the university network welcomes 10% of foreign students each year, representing 45 countries.

Key figures:

•   3 universities

- A dozen higher education schools: engineering, business, art, architecture, merchant navy

•   100,000 students

- 1,700 public researchers

•   176 recognised research centres

- 6 research institutes (instituts fédératifs de recherché, IFR)