University of Upper Alsace

University of Upper Alsace (French: Université de Haute-Alsace, UHA) is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre based in the two cities of Mulhouse and Colmar, France. Research and teaching at UHA concentrates mainly on science, technology, economics, management, arts and humanities. In 2017, UHA has more than 8000 students with about a hundred courses offered. The founding of UHA was driven by social and business players, among them was Jean-Baptiste Donnet.

University of Upper Alsace

Université de Haute-Alsace
La Fonderie Campus of Université de Haute-Alsace
Established	1975 (1975)
Affiliation	EUCOR
President	Christine Gangloff-Ziegler
Students	8353 (in 2017)
Location	Mulhouse and Colmar , Alsace , France
Website	http://www.uha.fr/

The special geographical situation of UHA, which lies close to the Swiss and German borders, is favourable to the emergence of single courses leading to double or triple degrees that are recognized in the neighbouring countries. Together with Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, University of Basel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as University of Strasbourg, the university of Upper Alsace is a member of the EUCOR, which is a trinational cross-border alliance of five universities on the Upper Rhine in the border region between Germany, France and Switzerland.^[1]

History

In 2013, the University of Upper Alsace joined the University of Strasbourg.^[2]

Departments

The university consists of ^[3] five faculties:

• FLSH - Faculte des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines
• FSESJ - Faculte des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et Juridiques
• FST - Faculte des Sciences et Techniques
• PEPS - Pluridisciplinaire d'Enseignement Professionnalisé Supérieur
• FMA - Faculte de Marketing et Agrosciences

two institutes of technology:

IUT de Mulhouse

• IUT DE COLMAR - Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar
• IUT DE MULHOUSE - Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Mulhouse

and two schools of engineering:

• ENSCMu - Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Mulhouse
• ENSISA - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingénieurs Sud Alsace (Merger in 2006 between ENSITM and ESSAIM)

Notable people

Faculty

• Bernard Heyberger (born 1954) - specialist in the history of Middle Eastern Christianity
• Jennifer K Dick (born 1970) - American poet, translator and educator/scholar

Alumni

• Mehmet Çekiç (born 1970) - Turkish Paralympic alpine skier

See also

• Upper Alsace