Paris Dauphine University
Paris Dauphine University - PSL (French: Université Paris Dauphine - PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 universities formed by the division of the ancient University of Paris (metonymically known as the Sorbonne). It is the only French institution of higher education that is both a grande école and a university.[4] Dauphine is also a founding member and constituent college of PSL University.[5]
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL | |
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Type | College, Grande école, Grand établissement (EPSCP) |
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Established | 1968 |
Parent institution | PSL University |
Budget | €116 million (2022)[1] |
President | El Mouhoub Mouhoud |
Academic staff | 579 (2020)[2] |
Administrative staff | 517 (2020)[2] |
Students | 9,400[1] |
Location | |
Campus | Urban |
Colours | Blue |
Affiliations | Conférence des grandes écoles, Couperin consortium,[3] EQUIS |
Mascot | Dolphin |
Website | dauphine.psl.eu |
As of 2022, Dauphine has 9,400 students in 8 fields of study (law, economics, finance, computer science, journalism, management, mathematics, social sciences), plus 3,800 in executive education.[1][6] Dauphine is a selective university with the status of grand établissement;[7] this unique legal status within the French higher education system allows Dauphine to be a selective university.[8] On average, 90 to 95% of accepted students received either high distinctions or the highest distinctions at their French High School National Exam results (Examen National du Baccalauréat).[9]
Research at Dauphine concerns "organization and decision sciences", organized in 6 research laboratories (5 of which are mixed units also staffed by CNRS researchers): the CEREMADE Center for Research in Decision Mathematics, the CR2D Dauphine Law Research Center, DRM Dauphine Management Research, the IRISSO Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Social Science, the LAMSADE Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Decision Support Systems, and the LEDa Dauphine Economics Laboratory. A total of 519 research staff work at Dauphine.[1]
Dauphine is also a founding member and constituent college of PSL University; it ranks 1st in France and in the top 50 worldwide.[10][11][12][13] It is also a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
History
Founded in 1968, Dauphine specializes in the organization and decision sciences: Management, Economics, Law, Political Science, Sociology, Applied Mathematics, Management Information Systems and Languages.
In 2009, Université Paris-Dauphine gained EQUIS (EFMD Quality Improvement System) accreditation, awarded by the European Foundation for Management Development.
In 2011, Université Paris-Dauphine became one of the 16 partners and co-founders of Paris Sciences et Lettres University .

International relations
Dauphine's international relations cover:
- Paris Dauphine University - PSL has a campus in Tunis offering bachelors and masters programs,[14] and a campus in London offering courses in cooperation with University College London.[15]
- 180 agreements with more than 40 countries, including the Australian National University, New York University in the US, the University of Toronto and McGill University in Canada, LSE and UCL in the UK, the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Bocconi University and Bologna University in Italy and Humboldt-Universitat-zu Berlin in Germany.
- 6 joint diplomas with three universities:
- The Autonomous University of Madrid
- Goethe University, Frankfurt
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice
- 24.9% international students enrolled in various programmes or diplomas in 2004/2005, including several students from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia.
Admissions
The University Paris IX Dauphine is one of the very few universities allowed to legally practice the selection at the entrance of students in France. The legal vagueness related to this "status" as an experimental university allowed it to select students on the bases of their bac scores. This situation led Dauphine transitioning to the status of Grand établissement in 2004. On the other hand, there has always been a form of selection at the entrance to the 2nd cycle (graduate) for the Masters.
There is no admission bar as such at Paris-Dauphine University, since many criteria are taken into account in the evaluation of a bachelor's degree. However, 94.4% of those admitted in the first year of bachelor in June 2013 had obtained a good or very good honors degree.
67% of its students achieved "Very good" (distinction – summa cum laude) in the General Baccalaureate. Regarding Dauphine's most sought-after master's degrees, the admission rate is 3%.
Rankings
National rankings
- 2015: 5th business school of France according to Eduniversal ranking[16]
- 2010: 4th-best alumni network according to the Challenges magazine-Who's Who ranking[17] (ENA, Polytechnique, HEC, Dauphine)
- 2016: best Master 2 in Finance according to Best-Masters.com[18]
- 2016: 4th-best Master 2 in Business law according to Best-Masters.com[19]
- 2008: 6th business school in France (ESSEC, HEC, ESCP EUROPE, Sciences Po, EM LYON, Dauphine)
International rankings
- 2020: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 36th-best university in the world according to the Shanghai ranking[20]
- 2019: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 4th-best young university in the world according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings[21]
- 2019: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 41st-best university in the world according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings[22]
- 2018: 33rd-best master's degree in Management in the world according to QS Ranking[23]
- 2017: As a part of Université PSL, Dauphine is ranked 72nd-best university in the world according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 32nd in the "reputation" category[24]
- 2014: 36th-best university in the world for producing millionnaires[25]
- 2013: 23rd-best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking[26]
- 2012: 18th-best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking[27]
- 2011: 18th-best university in the world in "Mathematics" according to the Shanghai ranking[28]
- 2010: 97th/1,000 business schools of the world according to eduniversal ranking[29]
- 2008: 64th university in the world according to the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris ranking
Alumni

Head of States
- Boni Yayi: President of the Republic of Benin
- Raymond Ndong Sima: Prime Minister of Gabon
- Faure Gnassingbe: President of Togo
Business leaders
- Thierry Bolloré: CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, former CEO of the Renault group
- Jacques Aigrain: Chairman & CEO of Swiss Re
- Michel Combes: CEO of SoftBank Group International ("SBGI"), former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent & former CEO of TDF
- Emmanuel Roman: CEO of PIMCO
- Christophe Chenut: CEO of Lacoste
- Jean-Christophe Coutures: CEO of Chivas Brothers, former CEO of Irish Distillers[30]
- Thierry Morin: Chairman & CEO of Valeo
- François Pierson: Chairman of AXA France
- Bruno Bonnell: Chairman & founder of Infogrames, former CEO of Atari
- Régis Schultz: CEO of JD Sports
- Yannick Bolloré: CEO of Havas, chairman of the supervisory board of Vivendi, Vice Chairman of Bolloré group
- Régis Arnoux: CEO and founder of Catering International Services
- Diane Barrière-Desseigne: CEO of Groupe Lucien Barrière
- Olivier François: President and CEO of Fiat
- Jean-Luc Gérard: Chairman of Ford France[31]
- Jean-Michel Severino: CEO of the French Development Agency
- Florent Menegaux: Chairman & CEO of Michelin group
- Philippe Dupont: Chairman of BPCE
- François-Xavier Clédat: CEO of Spie Batignolles
- Claude Czechowski: ex-CEO of CSC EMEA South & West
- Arnaud Lagardère: Chairman of Lagardère and of the Board of Directors of EADS
- Marc Rolland: Group CFO of Sodexo[32]
- Jean-Baptiste Chasseloup de Chatillon: Group CFO of Sanofi[33]
Economists & Researchers
- Jean Tirole: economist; recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014; author of The Theory of Corporate Finance, Princeton University Press 2006
- Agnès Bénassy-Quéré: deputy governor of Banque de France & chief economist at the Direction générale du Trésor
- Mathilde Lemoine: Group Chief Economist of Edmond de Rothschild
- Thierry Aimar: French economist, specialist of the Austrian School of economics and history of economic thought
- Olivier Blanchard: chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
- Jacques Attali: the first head of the EBRD
- Audrey Azoulay: UNESCO Director-General
- Nicolas Bouzou: French economist
- Bertrand Lemennicier: French economist
- Guillaume Carlier: French mathematician
- Elie Cohen: French economist, Director of Research in CNRS
- Bintou Keita: UN Undersecretary General[34]
- Cédric Villani: mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 2010
- Pierre-Louis Lions: mathematician, Fields Medal in 1994
- Witold Litwin: inventor of linear hashing and first French fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Politicians
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: French politician, deputy and president of Arise the Republic
- Hervé Mariton: French politician, Deputy and former Minister
- Hervé Novelli: French politician, Deputy and former Minister
Others
- Marc Levy: author
- Roland Minnerath: Archbishop of Dijon (France)
- Bernard Ramanantsoa: Chairman of HEC Paris
- Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux: entrepreneur, founder of The Phone House
- Jean-Marc Sylvestre: French journalist
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan
- Philippe Verdier: radio and television journalist
Honorary degrees
- John Campbell: professor of economics at Harvard University
- Ronald Fagin: computer scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center
- Eleanor M. Fox: professor at New York University
- Jim Gray: computer scientist and Turing award winner
- Oliver Hart: professor of economics at Harvard University
- Paul Joskow: professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ehud Kalai: professor at Northwestern University and author of Kalai-Smorodinsky model
- Hayne Ellis Leland: professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Henry Mintzberg: professor of management at McGill University
- David Newbery: Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge[35]
- Edmund Phelps: professor at Columbia University and author of golden rule savings rate
- Myron Scholes: economist and author of Black-Scholes model and Nobel prize
- Robert J. Shiller: professor of finance at Yale School of Management and Nobel prize
- Helmut Siekmann: professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Tom Snijders: professor at Nuffield College, Oxford and at the University of Groningen
- Herbert Spohn: professor at the Technical University Munich
- Melchior Wathelet: Belgian politician
- Adriana Lleras-Muney: professor of economics at University of California, Los Angeles
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- "Les membres de Couperin", Couperin.org (in French), Paris, retrieved 12 July 2018
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- "Université Paris-Dauphine : une ambiance entre prépa et grande école - L'Etudiant". www.letudiant.fr.
- "Décret n° 2004-186 du 26 février 2004 portant création de l'université Paris-Dauphine". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- "Portrait de fac : l'université Paris-Dauphine, tout d'une grande école - L'Etudiant". www.letudiant.fr.
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- "ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities". Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- "World University Rankings 2021-22 | Global 2000 List | CWUR". Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- "QS World University Rankings 2022". Retrieved 2021-09-30.
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