Paris-East Créteil University

Paris-East Créteil University (French: Université Paris-Est Créteil, also known as Paris XII or UPEC) is a public university in Créteil, Île-de-France, France. It was founded in 1970 and offers courses in social sciences, education, economics, law, arts, humanities, and science and technology.

The university has seventeen institutes across Créteil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, and the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

 History 
UPEC was created on 21 March 1970 after the division of the University of Paris into thirteen autonomous universities. It combined the Paris-Est Faculty of Law (1967) and the Faculty of Medicine of Créteil. The medical school’s CHU Henri-Mondor facility opened in 1969. In 1970, the Créteil campus was built. Major expansions followed in 1988 (Technological centre in Sénart and Fontainebleau) and 2005 (law school moved to Créteil). The institute of International Politics Studies was established in 2021 in Fontainebleau.

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