Jean Monnet University is a public research university which is under the administrative entity of the University of Lyon, which gathers schools in Lyon and Saint-Etienne.
The university offers about 300 programmes from undergraduate to doctorate level.
The main campus is in central Saint-Etienne, in the area of Trefiliere. It is where arts, languages and letters courses, law, economics and management, human sciences and the administrative building are housed.
The Department of Political and Territorial Studies has close ties to Sciences Po Lyon¡¯s Saint-Etienne campus. Research laboratories have been established at the university to foster connections between education and research.
Sciences and sports are studied at the Metare campus. Also in Metare is the university institute of technology, which provides short courses that last over two or three years.
Optics and vision and the engineering school - called Telecom Saint-Etienne - are housed in the Carnot Campus in the north of the city. The medical faculty is located at the Bellevue Campus.
The Hubert Curien Laboratory works in association with the university. It is comprised of about 90 researchers, professors and assistant professors, 20 engineers and administrative staff and 130 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and carries out research in optic, image and computer science.
There is a further campus in the city of Roanne, which includes a second University Institute of Technology.
Scholarships of 10,000 euros are offered to high-achieving international students through the Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme.
Leisure parks with tracks for mountain biking, hiking, skiing as well as a nautical base for sailing are just 15 minutes away from the university.
