Paul Sabatier University

Overview

Paul Sabatier University

Paul Sabatier University (Université Paul Sabatier, also known as UPS or Toulouse III) is a public research university in Toulouse, France. It was established in 1969 and is one of the several successor universities of the University of Toulouse. UPS is named after Paul Sabatier, winner of the 1912 Nobel prize in chemistry. A member of the Academy of Toulouse school district, the university is an acknowledged academic leader in France's Midi-Pyrénées region.

Paul Sabatier University Key Statistics

The university comprises six faculties, namely, the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Purpan Faculty of Medicine, Rangueil Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Sports and Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Faculty of Science and Engineering. It offers undergraduate courses in eight areas, postgraduate programs in six areas, and doctoral degree courses in multiple areas.

Toulouse III has a student population of approximately 32,000. It employs 2,350 academic staff and 1,500 administrative staff. The university has nine sites, located in Toulouse, Bagnères de Luchon, Castres, Castanet-Tolosan, Tarbes, Auch, Lannemezan, Bagnères de Bigorre, and Moulis.

The library system of UPS includes multiple libraries, namely, the Sciences BU, the Rangueil Health BU, the Health BU Allées Jules Guesde, and various research and IUT libraries. The university operates the Jardin Botanique Henri Gaussen, a botanical garden created by Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse in the Jardin des Plantes.

Other Paul Sabatier University key statistics include its heritage science collections of several thousand pieces and various specimens dating back to the beginning of the 19th century.

Paul Sabatier University Research

Research at Toulouse III is mostly funded by external funding agencies such as the European Research Council and the European Regional Development Funds.

The university's top three research fields are medicine, materials science, and biology. Its researchers have been published in publications like Science, Nature Materials, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Its researchers get invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences, such as the IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches Reasoning and Uncertainty.

The most cited publication from Paul Sabatier University research is Simon and Gogotsi’s (2008) “Materials for electrochemical capacitors,” published in Nature Materials, with a total of 11,337 citations to date. The second most cited work is York et al.’s (2000) “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary,” published in the Astronomical Journal. It has received a total of 10,319 citations. The university’s third most cited publication is Klionsky et al.’s (2021) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th Edition),” published in Autophagy. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 7,847 times so far.

Toulouse III has several joint research units and laboratories. These include the Center for Studies and Research Work Organization Power, the Evolution and Oral Health Laboratory, the Agri-Food and Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, the Toulouse Center for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, the Digestive Health Research Institute, and the Toulouse Institute of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases.