France
France welcomes nearly 200,000 foreign students every year. Throughout its history, France has been a centre for creativity and the dissemination of culture. Still today, France holds a prominent position in the field of math and sciences (mathematics, astrophysics, biology, medicine, genetics, physics). Over the past ninety years, the French scientific community has been awarded twenty-six Nobel prizes. The French government finances 50% of scientific research. The large public research institutions (the National Centre for Scientific Research, the National Institute for Health and Medical Research, the National Institute for Agronomical Research) admit many foreign students and high-level researchers each year.
Continental France is divided into four climatic zones:
- Oceanic and humid climate with cooler summers to the west of a line from Bayonne to Lille;
- Semi-continental climate with harsh winters and hot summers in Alsace, Lorraine, along the Rhone corridor and in the mountainous massifs (Alps, Pyrenees and Massif Central);
- Intermediate climate with cold winters and hot summers in the north, and in the Paris and central regions;
- Mediterranean climate with mild winters and very hot summers in the south of France.
Universities:
- IAE - Institut d’Administration des Entreprises
- IFAM Business School
Language Schools:
- ACCORD language school
- Collège International de Cannes
