[3][4] The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

The campus of Paris VI was built in the 1950s and 1960s, on a site previously occupied by wine storehouses.

The Dean, Marc Zamanski, saw the Jussieu campus standing as a tangible symbol of scientific thought in the heart of Paris, with the Faculty of Science, set in the Latin Quarter, as part of an intellectual and spiritual continuum linked to the university history of Paris.

[5] UPMC was a large scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of research with scope and achievements at a high level.

[7] UPMC had more than 125 laboratories, most of them in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).