Founded in 1970, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, which emerged from the former Faculty of Arts of the Université de Paris, combines the heritage of the Sorbonne with a spirit of continual innovation.
Offering an extensive range of high-level multidisciplinary courses in the fields of Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences, which benefit from the support of its 30 research units, the Sorbonne Nouvelle awards Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees that attract students and researchers from all over the world.
These qualifications provide a wide variety of career opportunities: in teaching and research, publishing, library science, the performing arts (theatre, cinema and television), communications and journalism, cultural and creative industries, translation and interpreting, and in European and international relations.
The Sorbonne Nouvelle is ranked 2nd in France in Communication and Media Studies as well as in Modern Languages (QS 2021).
Preparing Graduates for tomorrow's world
The Sorbonne Nouvelle offers degrees in:
Film & Audio-Visual Studies
Theatre Studies
Communication & Media Studies
Cultural Industry Studies
Language Sciences & Language Pedagogy
Languages & Literatures: Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Sanskrit, Spanish, etc.
Comparative literature
Translation and Interpreting
European and International Studies, Latin American Studies
These qualifications provide an extensive range of employment opportunities in creative and cultural industries, communications, journalism, the performing arts, publishing and library science, teaching and research, translation and interpreting, and cooperation and development. The Sorbonne Nouvelle also provides an ideal platform for students interested in European and international careers.
Ensuring employability
Encouraging academic success and developing the employability of all our students are essential objectives of our training programmes which provide students with skills expected by the job market:
The ability to analyse, report and interpret information
Autonomy, adaptability, and critical thinking
Curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness
Effective oral and written communication
A member of PEPITE Créaj-IDF, the Sorbonne Nouvelle provides "student entrepreneur" programmes allowing students to create their own jobs, acquire innovative professional skills, and work towards a graduate degree in entrepreneurship. The University's Knowledge Transfer department offers advice and support to help students build relevant and sustainable professional networks.
Socio-professional fields covered by our training programmes
Design, management and implementation of cultural and artistic projects, and organizationsc
Image didactics and contemporary image practices
Audio-visual production, editorialization and digital writing
Theatrical writing, performance, creation, production, stage archives, creative and cultural industries
Design: scenography, set design, event management, costume and fashion design
Cultural and creative industries
Heritage and exhibition curation, music curation, digital curation
Museums and new media, cultural tourism, and the geopolitics of art and culture
Corporate and institutional communications, news, health and environment
Intercultural and digital communications, project engineering and data analysis
E-training and e-learning, data analytics and data management
Media, gender and cultural studies, bilingual, transnational and cultural journalism
French as a foreign language or second language, and interculturality
Management and marketing, international project management
Cultural management and tri-lingual communications, international sales negotiations
Social sciences and cooperation and development
Digital humanities, digitization, management and exploration of textual resources
Teaching and pedagogy, research, teaching and engineering professions
Social intervention: writing consultancy, writing, culture, media
Linguistics, language acquisition, language disorders, language theory, translation, language circulation
Linguistics and language diversity, discourses and corpora, phonetics and phonology
Sociolinguistics and social approaches to language
Automatic language processing: research and development
Legal and financial translation and terminology
Conference interpreting, interpreting and French sign language
Translation studies, editorial, economic and technical translation
Foreign languages, literatures and societies, translation, literature and philosophy
Research
The Sorbonne Nouvelle’s training programmes benefit from the university’s internationally renowned research in the Arts, Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences.
Attracting researchers and students from all over the world, our university has more than 680 scholars working in 30 different research units. Each year, it also plays host to more than 70 scientific events and awards upwards of one hundred PhDs.
The 1,130 doctoral candidates in our five Doctoral Schools work in close partnership with the university’s internationally recognised research units. Professional development programmes also enable doctoral candidates to benefit from employment in projects managed by private companies and non-profit organisations.
Campus Life
The Sorbonne Nouvelle is strongly committed to promoting a dynamic environment that encourages students’ personal development and creativity. To this end, it provides access to an extensive cultural programme, with over 250 film screenings per year and a choice of more than 30 sports activities.
Finally, with a network of close to 40 civil society organisations, the Sorbonne Nouvelle helps students to set up, finance and promote a wide range of innovative projects.
Distance Learning
The university’s digital gateway, iCampus, offers access to a virtual learning environment, communication tools, office software and a wealth of multimedia resources.
Students can choose from 20 distance learning programmes ranging from access to higher-education diplomas to Masters qualifications.
Interaction between teachers and students is also facilitated by Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals which offers a range of collaborative tools, most notably video conferencing and virtual classrooms.
Library
Sorbonne Nouvelle Library (BSN)
A range of services to foster academic success: individual and group work areas, equipment loans, photocopying, scanning and printing services….
Renowned collections (books, journals, comics, DVDs) in the Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences, available in the physical library and 24-7 online
The Gaston Baty Performing Arts Library (TGB)
120,000 documents on the performing arts
Heritage, iconography, multimedia, and archival collections
Loans of props for theatrical practice
Key Figures
16,160 students, a third of whom are international students
876 doctoral candidates, of whom 52% are international
5 doctoral schools and 30 research units
84 Major/Minor combinations at Bachelor’s level
67 Masters
13 university diplomas (DU)
13 International degrees
28 courses combining work and academic study
20 distance learning courses
2 French-government certified « Laboratoires d'Excellence »
2 UNESCO Chairs
2nd university in France in Communication and Media Studies and Modern Languages (QS 2021)
More than 140 international agreements and 328 Erasmus+ agreements
92% of Masters graduates in Arts, Humanities and Languages, and 87% in Social Sciences find jobs within 18 months
International Cooperation
With a network of some 400 higher education institutions in nearly 30 countries, international cooperation is a major priority for the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Our university is actively involved in collaborations and partnerships throughout the world, notably in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. With 328 Erasmus+ agreements and 140 international agreements, the Sorbonne Nouvelle enables more than 1,000 students to participate in exchange programs every year.
Continuing Education
All training courses are available via the continuing education service
Degree courses in English, Portuguese, and French as a Foreign Language
Access to higher-education diploma, option A
Language skills qualifications:
The Sorbonne Nouvelle is the only officially certified university in the Île-de-France region to prepare students for Cambridge English exams
CELPE-BRAS: Portuguese Language for non-native speakers
DELF and DALF: French language for non-native speakers
Academic Alliances
On 7 January 2021, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the ESCP Business School founded Sorbonne Alliance. The Sorbonne Nouvelle is also a member of Campus Condorcet, one of the world’s leading research centres in the Humanities and Social Sciences.