Clermont Auvergne University comprises 22 components, divided into Training and Research Units (UFR, formerly faculties), Schools and Institutes (IUT).

On January 1, 2021, Clermont-Auvergne University status changed and it became an experimental public establishment (EPE) and integrated the National Polytechnic Clermont Auvergne Institute (itself a merger of the SIGMA Clermont Engineering School and the training activities and research of the schools Polytech Clermont-Ferrand and Institut d'informatique d'Auvergne).

The Cézeaux campus is located further south in the neighboring town of Aubière.

The Clermont Auvergne University Institute of Technology is also present in Aurillac, Clermont-Ferrand, Montluçon, Moulins, Le Puy and Vichy.

[5] The institute that trains teachers for the national public education is present in Chamalières, Moulins, Le Puy and Aurillac.