The University of Paris 06 is the ideal university in France according to the Educational Rating of Entire world Universities (ARWU). The ARWU is revealed by the Institute of Increased Education and learning at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a number of indicators of tutorial or analysis efficiency are utilised to build the ranking, these incorporate hugely cited researchers, articles indexed in major citation indices and staff profitable Nobel Prizes. 
The Best-five universities in France
There are twenty-a few French universities in the Word’s Top-five hundred universities (2008). The Top-five universities in France are: 1. College of Paris 6 (ranked forty second in the planet) two. College of Paris 11 (ranked forty ninth) three. Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (73rd) four. Kampus Teladan of Paris seven (one zero one-151) and University of Strasbourg(one zero one-151). The University of Paris 6 has been the best college in France because 2003, when the ARWU was very first published.
French Universities
Universities in France are predominantly general public institutions. Curiously, the very best pupils go to the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ [‘Grand Schools’] (a greater education and learning establishment outdoors the mainstream framework of the community universities system). Whilst the universities are open up to all students who end their high university training (with a ‘Baccalauréat’), the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ demand an extra entrance examination which is hugely aggressive.
In comparison to French universities, the ‘Grandes Ecoles’ are reasonably small establishments. For example, the College of Paris six (rated 42rd in the planet) has 30,000 students although the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (rated 73rd in the entire world) only has two,000 college students.
Compared to other OECD countries, France has an typical density of prime universities (.four universities per 1 million inhabitants in France compared to .four for OECD international locations as a whole. It is hanging to note that nine out of the 23 universities (39%) that look in the ARWU are positioned in Paris.
The College of Paris
The historic College of Paris was started in the mid twelfth century, In 1970 it was reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I-XIII). The university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne. The universities are now primarily impartial of each and every other. Regardless of this hyperlink, and the historical ties, there is no College of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic stage.