It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.

The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of a "pôles de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur" or PRES and was completed 1 January 2012.

[2] There were two semesters, each semester followed by an exam period, and another exam period in June for resit examinations.

During the university year, public holidays were observed as well as longer holidays (either one or two weeks) such as All Saint's Day, Christmas, Easter and a "February holiday", roughly equivalent to spring break.

[2] Nancy 2 is organized into 7 different faculties (UFR stands for Unités de Formation et de Recherche, meaning Research and Training Units):[5] The university also contained eight institutes:[5]