Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Overview

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees

The Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees (UFTMP) is a COMUE—a group of higher education and research institutions—in Midi-Pyrenees, France. It was established in 2007 as University of Toulouse and came into effect in 2015 as Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees. This university group is ranked among the top 500 universities worldwide.

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees Key Statistics

UFTMP comprises 23 higher education member institutions and 7 research organizations. Some of these universities and research units include the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse 1 Capitole University, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse, École Nationale de L'aviation Civile, and École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux.

The university group offers an extensive array of multidisciplinary courses which are categorized under four key areas: science, technology, health and engineering sciences, human and social sciences, law, economics and management, and arts, humanities and languages.

The Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees has over 100,000 students enrolled, around 40% of whom are international students. It employs over 7,000, including 5,100 academic staff.

Other Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees key statistics includes its library network comprising 61 individual libraries which share a common catalog. It has around 1.1 million references and over 2.4 million printed volumes. Likewise, the university also has a university hospital center serving the medical needs of the academic community and Midi-Pyrénées residents.

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees Research

UFTMP is classified as the pioneer research university in France for its excellent and efficient research activity per year. It has over 9,000 researchers and research professors as well as conducts collaborative research with over 1,500 universities and organizations in 110 countries. Most of the university’s research funding, estimated at $600 million a year, comes from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of France, and FINEP.

The university’s top three research fields are astrophysics, physics, computer science. Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees research outputs have been published in renowned publications, including the Microelectronics Journal, the International Journal of Thermal Sciences, and Computer in Chemical Engineering. The researchers have attended various international conferences such as ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, EMC: International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, and ECC: European Control Conference.

The most cited research output produced by UFTMP researchers is Vicente et al.’s (2011) “Getting into networks and clusters: Evidence from the Midi-Pyrenean Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) collaboration network.” Published in Regional Studies, it has been cited 117 times. The second most cited work is Florens et al.’s (2001) “Assessing GMM estimates of the Federal Reserve Reaction Function,” published in Research Papers in Economics with 120 citations. The third most cited UFTMP research publication is Xuewu Fu et al.s (2016) “Isotopic composition of gaseous elemental mercury in the free troposphere of the Pic du Midi Observatory, France.” It was published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal and has been cited 53 times so far.

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees research comprises several research facilities including the Jean-Francois Champollion University Center for Research, The Institute of Systemic Biology, and The Microbiology and Bioprocesses Laboratory.