Education

Main article: Education in Paris

The Lyce Louis-le-Grand

The former main building of the University of Paris is now used by classes from Paris-Sorbonne
University and other autonomous campuses

Paris is the dpartement with the highest proportion of highly educated people. In 2009, around
40 percent of Parisians held a licence-level diploma or higher, the highest proportion in
France,[238] while 13 percent have no diploma, the third lowest percentage in France.
Education in Paris and the le-de-France region employs approximately 330,000 people, 170,000
of whom are teachers and professors teaching approximately 2.9 million children and students in
around 9,000 primary, secondary, and higher education schools and institutions.[239]
The University of Paris, founded in the 12th century, is often called the Sorbonne after one of its
original medieval colleges. It was broken up into thirteen autonomous universities in 1970,
following the student demonstrations in 1968. Most of the campuses today are in the Latin
Quarter where the old university was located, while others are scattered around the city and the
suburbs.[240]
The Paris region hosts France's highest concentration of the grandes coles 55 specialised
centres of higher-education outside the public university structure. The prestigious public

universities are usually considered grands tablissements. Most of the grandes coles were
relocated to the suburbs of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, in new campuses much larger than the
old campuses within the crowded city of Paris, though the cole Normale Suprieure has
remained on rue d'Ulm in the 5th arrondissement.[241] There are a high number of engineering
schools, led by the Paris Institute of Technology which comprises several colleges such as cole
Polytechnique, cole des Mines, AgroParisTech, Tlcom Paris, Arts et Mtiers, and cole des
Ponts et Chausses. There are also many business schools, including HEC, INSEAD, ESSEC,
and ESCP Europe. The administrative school such as ENA has been relocated to Strasbourg, the
political science school Sciences-Po is still located in Paris's 7th arrondissement and the most
prestigious university of economics and finance, Paris-Dauphine, is located in Paris's 16th. The
Parisian school of journalism CELSA department of the Paris-Sorbonne University is located in
Neuilly-sur-Seine.[242] Paris is also home to several of France's most famous high-schools such as
Lyce Louis-le-Grand, Lyce Henri-IV, Lyce Janson de Sailly and Lyce Condorcet. The
National Institute of Sport and Physical Education, located in the 12th arrondissement, is both a
physical education institute and high-level training centre for elite athletes.