Paris 8 University

Overview

Paris 8 University

Paris 8 University is a public research university in Paris, France. Established in 1969, it was formerly known as the Centre Universitaire Experimental de Vincennes before it gained university status and adopted its current name in 1971. It is one of the 13 successors of the University of Paris, which is the world’s second-oldest academic institution. With a selective admission policy and high employment rate, Paris 8 is recognized as one of the premier French universities worldwide.

Paris 8 University Key Statistics

The university is organized into multiple academic departments. These departments are the Department of Feminist Studies, the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Cinema Arts, and the Department of Political Sciences. It offers more than 100 undergraduate, postgraduate, and diploma courses, specializing in the fields of psychology, law, political science, and philosophy.

Paris 8 has more than 20,000 students, including over 14,000 undergraduates and nearly 6,300 postgraduates. It employs more than 1,000 administrative and academic staff members. These staff members are spread across its campus buildings and facilities.

Other Paris 8 University key statistics and facilities are student housing, sports gyms, cafeterias, and a library. The university library has roughly 400,000 printed and audiovisual documents and offers access to over 300,000 electronic books, 40,000 journals, and 50 databases through its Octaviana portal.

Paris 8 University Research

The university has been actively delivering high-quality outputs that improve the way of living in the Saint-Denis region. Its research projects are funded by grants and fellowships from Topio Networks and the International Monetary Fund. They have also forged institutional partnerships with research institutions such as Paris Lumieres University, the Condorcet campus, and the MSH Paris Nord.

Paris 8 University research is recognized worldwide for its work in mathematics, discrete mathematics, and computer science. They have also presented their outputs in CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, ISIT: International Symposium on Information Theory, and ITW: International Theory Workshop.

Its most cited research output is Bonatti et al.’s (2005) “Linguistic constraints on statistical computations the role of consonants and vowels in continuous speech processing,” which was published in Psychological Science and cited 362 times. Meanwhile, Paris 8’s second most popular work is Barles (2009) “Urban metabolism of Paris and its region,” which was published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology and has 301 citations.

On the other hand, the university’s third most popular work is Endress and Bonatti's (2007) “Rapid learning of syllable classes from a perceptually continuous speech stream.” This article which talks about dependencies in linguistic classes was published in Cognition and cited by students and research professionals worldwide 148 times.

Other Paris 8 University research facilities are its research units that include the UR Aesthetics, Musicology, Dance and Musical Creation, the UR Laboratory of Studies and Research on Contemporary Logics of Philosophy, and the Center for the History of Medieval and Modern Societies. The university also has joint research units such as the Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research, the Laboratory Architecture City Urbanism Environment, and the Laboratory of Social Dynamics and Recomposition of Spaces.