University of Grenoble (French: Université de Grenoble) or Grenoble University was a university in Grenoble, France until 1970, when it was split into several different institutions:
- Grenoble I: Joseph Fourier University (Université Joseph Fourier or UJF) for sciences, health, technologies
- Grenoble II: Pierre Mendès-France University (Université Pierre Mendès-France) for social sciences
- Sciences-Po Grenoble: Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble) affiliated with Grenoble II
- Grenoble III: Stendhal University (Université Stendhal) for humanities
- Grenoble-INP: Grenoble Institute of Technology (Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble or Groupe INP Grenoble, formerly INPG for engineering
The institutions share campus and other facilities. As of 2010, there is a project to merge the five organizations, but it has not yet been implemented. Thus post-1970 the name "Grenoble University" (Université de Grenoble) denotes some kind of shell organization with little real existence.
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