University of Toulouse
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| Formation | 1229 |
| Headquarters | Toulouse,France |
| University in Toulouse, France. | |
The University of Toulouse was a university in France that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the French Revolution in 1793, it was re-founded in 1896 as part of the reorganization of higher education. It finally disappeared in 1969, giving birth to the three current Toulouse universities: the University Toulouse-I-Capitole, the University Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès and the University Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier.
The current consortium of Universities and other institutions of higher education and research in the Toulouse area is also known as Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées.
The three Universities, along with other Toulouse schools, are participating in the reconstruction of a University of Toulouse - a joint structure of 107,000 students including 4,500 doctoral students, approximately 17,000 staff, 145 research laboratories