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- French:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Date:
- 1968 – current
Aix-Marseille College, coeducational, state-financed, autonomous establishment of upper studying based underneath France’s 1968 Orientation Act, reforming higher education. The establishment developed out of the unique College of Provence, based in 1409 as a studium generale by Louis II of Provence and acknowledged by papal bull in 1413. From the fifteenth to the 18th century it developed as an establishment of classical studying, liberal arts, theology, law, and medicine. It was suppressed through the French Revolution, reestablished in Aix and Marseille, and got here to be generally known as Aix-Marseille.
In 1896 Aix-Marseille turned one among 17 self-governing regional universities financed by the state. Beneath the Orientation Act of 1968, Aix-Marseille was divided into three establishments, every with unbiased models of educating and analysis. The College of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) was primarily a college of languages and letters. It had an observatory and a centre for tele-education. The College of Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille II) was primarily a college of drugs and sciences. The College of Legislation, Economics, and Science (Aix-Marseille III) was added in 1973 in a restructuring of Aix-Marseille I and II. In 2011 the three entities had been united and have become Aix-Marseille College with its campus in Marseille.
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