Top 10 Universities & Colleges in France - 2022

The demand for high quality education, new learning spaces, and growing investment opportunities has led to higher education industry becoming very demanding across the globe. And, France is one such country that quite promisingly provides it. Thanks to its rich culture, gastronomy, architecture, and thriving student life that makes it ideally a good place for international students to pursue their higher education degrees.

If one wants to pursue a good quality higher education, look no further because France is capable of providing it. The statistic reveals that the share of education spending in France went from 7.3 percent in 2000 to 6.62 percent of GDP in France in 2019. Also, in 2019, there were 2.73 million students enrolled in higher education (public and private) in France, a quarter of which were covered by the Greater Paris region. The increase in enrolment is particularly significant in certain academies (Nantes, Versailles, and others) and has continued in 2020 (2.78 million) and in 2021 (2.81 million) due to exceptional baccalaureate success rates that allow students to study at university level. As due to pandemic, for the first time, the world has more than 6 million mobile students, with Europe being their most popular destination. There are 365,000 international students in France alone, with an increase of 18 percent in enrollments over five years, earlier. Frankly, the highest representation among these 365,000 students comprises of students from Morocco, Algeria, China, Italy, and Senegal.

Foreign students account for 13 percent of all students in France and 40 percent of doctoral students. Île-de-France is home to more than a third, followed by Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and Occitanie. The French government had even provided scholarships to nearly 7,700 international students and trainees in 2020-21. Hence, with all such prospective aspects about the higher education in France, it's definitely seems to be a great destination for higher education. There are many old and newly entrenched colleges leveraging their productive curriculum for the career making of an individual, but to look for one best college can be difficult, one can get in dilemma.

Higher Education Review, in this issue presents a list of `Top 10 Universities & Colleges in France - 2022' who have been offering best-in-class education in the country. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board.