University of Rouen Normandy

Located not in Rouen, but in the suburb of Mont-Saint-Aignan (a "township" in the Normandy region), the University of Rouen Normandy opened in 1966 as an off-shoot of the University of Caen. It is a large public university with over 25,000 students enrolled.[1]

According to U.S. News & World Report, University of Rouen Normandy made #835 (in a 3-way tie with Assiut University in Egypt and Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia) on the Best Global Universities list (published October 24, 2017) out of 1,250 universities being judged.[2][3] University of Rouen Normandy was also compared to 66 other French universities and was ranked #45.[4] These rankings are based on the reputation of the university as well as the extent and quality of the research performed at each location.

• First transcatheter aortic valve implantation in the world performed by Prof. Alain Cribier in 2002.{{[5]}}

Students do not live on campus at University of Rouen Normandy, as housing is not available through the university. Nearby apartments are available and booked through the state agency CROUS.[6][7]

The University of Rouen Normandy takes part in the XL-Chem Graduate School of Research[8] project, funded by the State via the National Research Agency.

Faculty

• Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta (1766-1837) - Italian historian; university rector
• Paul Rollin (1932, in Bordeaux – 2003) - university president
• Michel Thellier (born 1933, in Arcueil) - plant physiologist.
• André Vauchez (born 1938, in Thionville) - medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality.
• Annie Ernaux (born 1940) - Nobel Prize-winning (2022) French writer and professor of literature.
• Claude Dellacherie (born 1943, in Lauwin-Planque) - mathematician, specialising in probability theory
• Alain Cribier (born 1945) - cardiologist
• Jacques Legrand (born 1946, in Rennes) - linguist and anthropologist; specialist in Mongolian literature, history and language
• Dominique Perrin (born 1946) - mathematician and computer scientist
• Catherine Virlouvet (born 1956) - historian of Ancient Rome
• Loïc Vadelorge (born 1964) - historian
• Catriona Seth (born 1964) - British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas
• Pierre Cosme (born 1965) - historian specialising in ancient Rome

Alumni

• Robert Lecourt (1908 in Pavilly - 2004) - member of French resistance; lawyer; President of the European Court of Justice
• Olga Kosakiewicz (1915 in Kiev – 1983) - theatre actress
• Paul Sebag (Tunisian Arabic: پول صباغ), born 1919, in Tunis - 2004, in Paris) - French-Tunisian sociologist and historian
• Michel Bercovier (Hebrew: מישל ברקוביאר; born 1941, in Lyon) - French-Israeli computer scientist
• Maxime Crochemore (born 1947) - computer scientist
• Jean-Pierre Florens (born 1947, in Marseille) - economist
• Django Sissoko (1948-2022) - Prime Minister of Mali 2012-2013
• Christian Gouriéroux (born 1949) - econometrician
• Justine Mintsa(born 1949, in Oyem, Gambia) - writer
• Yaou Aïssatou (born 1951) - Minister of Women's Affairs, Cameroon
• Sheila Copps (born 1952, in Hamilton, Ontario) - Canadian politician; Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (1993-1997)
• Pascal Morand (born 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) - economist; Executive President of the Fédération française de la couture
• Habib Abdulrab Sarori (born 1956) - Yemeni computer scientist and novelist
• Catherine Morin-Desailly (born 1960, in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime) - politician (UDI)
• Lama Salam (born 1961) - Lebanese activist
• Christian Robert (born 1961) - statistician, specialising in Bayesian statistics
• Laurent Ruquier (born 1963, in Le Havre) - television presenter, radio host and comedian
• Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo (born 1968, in Le Havre) - pharmacist and politician (Horizons)
• Emmanuel Maquet (born 1968, in Dieppe) - politician (LR)
• Christophe Bouillon (born 1969, in Rouen) - politician (PS)
• Stéphan Perreau (born 1969) - musician and art historian
• Raphaëlle Branche (born 1972) - historian
• Audrey Pulvar (born 1972, in Martinique) - journalist, television and radio host and politician (PS)
• David Cormand (born 1974) - politician (EELV)
• Sira Sylla (born 1980) - politician of (LREM)

Recipient of honorary degree

• Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) - Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic

• List of public universities in France by academy

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