APPENDIX II 1 



INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING; 



THEIR ORGANIZATION, DEGREES, 



REQUIREMENTS, FEES, ETC. 



Offices Furnishing Information to Foreign Students. From the 

 beginning of the thirteenth century, when the University of Paris 

 was founded, till the present day, France has always generously 

 extended to the whole world the hospitality of her schools of higher 

 learning. This hospitality has been eagerly accepted in modern as 

 well as in mediaeval times, as is evidenced by an enrollment on 

 January 15, 1913, of 5560 foreigners in the Faculties of the French 

 Universities, nearly a seventh of the entire student body. 



In order to emphasize this hospitality and render it concrete, 

 the French educational authorities have organized two offices or 

 bureaus whose business it is to facilitate in every possible way the 

 pursuit of studies in France and to render any service possible to 

 the prospective or resident foreign student. These offices are: 

 Bureau des Renseignements, at the Sorbonne, and Office National des 

 Universites et Ecoles Francises, 96 Boulevard Raspail, Paris. 

 The Bureau of Information publishes annually the "Livret de 

 1'fitudiant" of the University of Paris, which also contains a 

 complete detailed account of all the other institutions of higher 

 learning in the capital. The National Office of French Universities 

 and Schools publishes a Handbook which presents in schematic 

 outline a description of the organization, conditions of admission, 

 etc., of all the higher schools, not only in Paris, but also in the 

 provinces. The information contained in the following pages has 

 been reproduced for the most part from these two booklets, which 

 should be consulted for further details. Each University also 

 publishes a "Livret de 1'Etudiant" or "Annuaire" which gives an 

 even more detailed account of the particular University and of all 



^Prepared by Professor C. B. VIBBERT, of the University of Michigan. 

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