The Lille 1 University of Science and Technology (French: Université Lille 1 : Sciences et Technologies, USTL) was a Frenchuniversity located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, near Lille (Hauts-de-France – European Metropolis of Lille), with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004). 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140 CNRS researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs. University Lille 1 was a member of the European Doctoral College Lille Nord de France, which produces 400 doctorate dissertations every year. The university is ranked in the world top 200 universities in mathematics by the Shanghai ranking.
University Lille 1 faculties include
- UFR biology
- UFR chemistry
- UFR geography
- UFR mathematics
- UFR physics
- UFR economy and social sciences
- UFR earth sciences
- UFR electronics, electrotechnics, control and computer sciences