University of New Caledonia
University of New Caledonia | |
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founding | 1987 and 1999 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Numea , New Caledonia , France |
management | Gaël Lagadec |
Students | 2,800 |
Professors | 12 |
Website | www.unc.nc |
The University of New Caledonia ( French: Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie ) is a university in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia .
history
The university was founded in 1987 as the French University of the Pacific (with two centers, namely in New Caledonia and in French Polynesia ). This combination of geographically distant locations was abandoned in 1999, the French University of the Pacific was dissolved and the two higher education centers became independent as the University of New Caledonia and the University of French Polynesia .
structure
There are three departments:
- law and economy
- Literature, language and human sciences
- Science and Technology