page_title: Toulouse
section_title: Colleges and universities
hierarchical_section_title: Toulouse / Education / Colleges and universities
caption_attribution_description: English: Campus toulousain de l’IPSA, école d’ingénieurs de l’air et de l’espace
context_page_description: Toulouse is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France, with 479,553 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries, and 1,360,829 inhabitants within its wider metropolitan area, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux.
  Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It also hosts the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre, the largest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, ATR, SAFRAN, Liebherr-Aerospace and Airbus Defence and Space also have a significant presence in Toulouse.
  The University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe and, with more than 103,000 students, it is the fourth-largest university campus in France, after the universities of Paris, Lyon and Lille.
  The air route between Toulouse–Blagnac and Paris Orly is the busiest in Europe, transporting 2.4 million passengers in 2014.
context_section_description: The University of Toulouse (Université de Toulouse), established in 1229, is located here (now split into three separate universities). Like the universities in Oxford and Paris, the University of Toulouse was established at a time when Europeans were starting to translate the writings of Arabs of Andalus and Greek philosophers. These writings challenged European ideology—inspiring scientific discoveries and advances in the arts—as society began seeing itself in a new way. These colleges were supported by the Church, in hopes of reconciling Greek philosophy and Christian theology.
  Catholic University of Toulouse
  Université Toulouse I, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse School of Management and Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse
  University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (Formerly University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail)
  Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
  Toulouse is also the home of Toulouse Business School (TBS), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), the Institut supérieur européen de gestion group (ISEG Group), the Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action (ISEFAC), E-Artsup and several engineering schools:
  ICAM Toulouse (Institut catholique d'arts et métiers)
  INSA Toulouse
  ISAE SUPAERO (Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace)
  ENAC (École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile)
  INP ENSEEIHT (École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, d'Électrotechnique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications)
  ENSFEA (École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole)
  INP ENSIACET (École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs en art chimique et technologique)
  INP ENSAT ('École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse)
  INP ENM (École Nationale de la Météorologie)
  EPITA (École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées)
  EPITECH (École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies or European Institute of Information Technology)
  IPSA (Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées)
  EIPurpan (École d'ingénieurs de Purpan)
caption: IONIS Education Group Toulouse campus
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