In the Heart of the city of Nancy and its surroundings, the University of Nancy I is an important actor in providing higher education and research in Lorraine. A multidisciplinary university in Sciences, Technology and Health, UHP has succeeded its bet to combine a prestigious historical heritage and its will of progress, which places it today among the best universities in France.

The university of Nancy I combines in Nancy and in Lorraine, 5 faculties: Sciences and Technologies, Medicine, Pharmacy, Odontology and Sport, 3 schools of engineer: ESSTIN, ENSTIB and ESIAL as well as 3 IUT in Nancy and St Dié. The university welcomes each year more than 16 000 students in its bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees. The university also offers 6500 diplomas that are professionalized at a national level. Guaranteeing high quality teaching, the research of the university groups together 45 laboratories in partnership with principal headquarters of national research centres. The University excel in these research areas: Data processing, Automatic, Electronics and Mathematical Physical, Chemistry and Mechanical Materials, Geosciences, Chemistry molecular Biology, Health and so on.

To proximity of the Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, the university benefits from a cross-border position privileged for its relations in Europe regarding research or of mobility of students. 106 bilateral agreements were signed with 21 European countries. On the international level, 120 conventions give the university a chance to interact with other universities in more than 40 countries in the world. Benefiting from a historic anchorage closely of a half century, the university Henri Poincaré aim today to further assert its mark in the international education setting.