Université Catholique de l'Ouest

Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO)
founding	1373/1875
Sponsorship	Catholic Church
place	Angers
country	France
Rector	Dominique Vermersch
Students	10,500
Networks	FIUC
Website	www.uco.fr

The Catholic University of the West (French: Université Catholique de l'Ouest , UCO ) was founded in 1373 and can look back on a long tradition since its Reformation in 1875. The UCO is based in Angers , Pays de la Loire , France .

history

The beginnings of the university in Angers can be traced back to the cathedral school there. In the early 11th century it became known under the direction of the Bishop of Rennes - later Bishop of Angers. It was enlarged in 1229 and received a large influx of English students who had previously studied at the University of Paris , as this university was directly subordinate to the French king . The University of Angers became a center of law and especially civil law ; in 1337 it was the first university to be assigned to an episcopate and received teaching permission from the Holy See , the first university statutes also date from this time . In 1364 she received the same privileges from King Charles V that had been granted to the University of Orléans . With a royal decree of 1432, the university received approval to set up additional faculties: theology , medicine , art, and canon law and civil law. Until the French Revolution (1789) the university was able to develop into a recognized teaching institution, but teaching was prohibited between the years 1791 to 1793.

New beginning

Only in 1875 with the law to create private universities and the requirement to run at least three faculties , the Catholic university received its teaching license back. Thereupon the French bishops decided to establish five Catholic universities in France and teaching was resumed at the existing university in Angers. The university was now, since it was responsible for the western part of France, renamed the "Facultés Catholiques de l 'Ouest". In the years that followed, the Faculties of Law (1875), Literature (1876), Natural Sciences (1877) and Theology (1879) were established. The first foreign students were admitted in 1947.

reorganization

Several institutes were founded by 1966 and the Catholic University began, due to the increasing number of students, with the relocation of its colleges and institutes , after some troubled years of reorganization and reorganization, what it is now called "Université Catholique l 'Ouest ( UCO) ”has been relocated to three major university areas: UCO headquarters in Angers, UCO Bretagne North in Guingamp and UCO Bretagne South in Vannes / Arradon.

The university in numbers

• Educational offers
  • Degree programs for: literature, languages ​​including French as a foreign language, art, music, psychology, social sciences, management, communication, educational sciences, mathematics, computer technology, statistics and computer scientists, biology, environmental sciences as well as theology and religious studies.
  • Exams for doctoral , master and bachelor degrees (with a high success rate).
• The university has the following facilities:
  • Audiovisual center, multimedia rooms with internet access
  • 17 departments for a wide variety of vocational training
  • Student dormitories and housing service for accommodation in apartments or with families
  • 2 university canteens
  • University library
• Staff and students
  • 10,500 students
  • 1,000 teachers in a wide variety of subjects
  • 180 full-time teachers
• particularities
  • 12 foreign languages ​​are taught
  • The UCO has 10 multimedia language laboratories for this purpose
  • The UCO has over 130 connections to other universities worldwide

See also

• List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

Web links

Commons : Université catholique de l'Ouest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• UCO website
• Website UCO Bretagne Nord ( Memento of January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Website UCO Bretagne South

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.uco.fr/fr/decouvrez-l-uco
2. ↑ https://www.uco.fr/fr/decouvrez-l-uco
3. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed October 2, 2019 .  

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '52.9 "  N , 0 ° 32' 55.3"  W.