Reims is the site for:

• One IUT (polytechnic)
• One Higher Packaging Engineering School, Website
• One University Teachers Training College
• Two doctoral Schools featuring 1,215 teachers (including 750 researchers) and 810 non-teaching staff

URCA awards the following diplomas:

• 25 degrees (honours equivalent)
• 42 vocational degrees
• 14 Masters degrees with 60 specialities
• 1 basic legal qualification
• 1 DEUST (scientific & technical diploma)
• 14 DUTs (university technology diploma)
• 2 Engineer's diplomas
• 3 Doctor's diplomas
• 1 Midwife's diploma
• 1 Oenologist's diploma
• 1 DAEU

Although its roots go far back, the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne has existed in its present form for less than 30 years. To begin with a Cathedral School, one of Europe's largest and most important during the Middle Ages, Reims University saw the light of day in 1548, as a result of the intervention of the Cardinal de Lorraine who obtained its founding via papal bull. Shut down in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was to undergo a total eclipse for one and a half centuries, only to re-surface in the 1960s.
 
The Faculty of Science (1961), the University Literary College (1964), the University College of Law and Economics (1966), the Reims University Institute of Technology (1966), the mixed Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (1967) and the National School of Dental Surgery (1970) are successive elements on which Reims University was founded in 1971.

The creation of an IUT (polytechnic) in Troyes (1973), a Higher Institute for Technical Training (1985) and an IUT department in Charleville-Mézières (1995), the development in Troyes of a relocated branch of the Reims Faculties of Law, Economics and Arts (1991) and the opening of an IUT department in Châlons-en-Champagne (1993) now underscore the regional rooting of a university which, in 1982, became the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.

The city provides support for the university, in particular via an annual agreement.

Reims University Website

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