Most notably, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, who came from Poland in 1891 and joined the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris, was also the first woman to become a professor at the Sorbonne.

As of 2021, its alumni and professors have won 33 Nobel Prizes, six Fields Medals, and one Turing Award.

In February 1257, he had a house (domus) officially established which he intended for a certain number of secular clergy who, living in common and without concern for their material existence, would be entirely occupied with study and teaching.

[3][4] Under the Bourbon Restoration, the faculty welcomed an average of 1,000 to 1,500 students a year, rising to 2,000 under the July Monarchy.

But the number of teaching staff remained limited: between 1809 and 1878, only 51 professors taught at the Faculty of Humanities.

The Jussieu campus is now the main site of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Science and Engineering.

[11] It has 79 laboratories in the Paris region, most in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

[14] Besides the monuments of the Cour d'Honneur, the Sorbonne Chapel and the Grand Amphithéâtre,[15] the building houses the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Paris Rectorat, the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, and part of the universities Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Cité and the École Nationale des Chartes as well as the École Pratique des Hautes Études that are constituent schools of PSL University.

The chapel was built in 1622 by the then-Provisor of the University of Paris, Cardinal Richelieu, during the reign of Louis XIII.

Under the supervision of Pierre Greard, Chief Officer of the Education Authority of Paris, Henri-Paul Nénot constructed the current building from 1883 to 1901 that reflects a basic architectural uniformity.

With the former archives of the now-defunct University of Paris, 2,500,000 books, 400,000 of them ancient, 2,500 historical manuscripts, 18,000 doctoral dissertation papers, 17,750 past and current French and international periodicals and 7,100 historical printing plates, the Sorbonne Library is the largest university library in Paris and was entirely refurbished in 2013.

The Sorbonne University Library's Arts and Humanities Department (French: Pôle Lettres de la Bibliothèque de Sorbonne Université), part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, offers its students and teaching staff access to 18 libraries and thematic collections.

The Pitié-Salpêtrière Campus is home to Sorbonne University Faculty of Health Sciences and its Department of Medical Studies.

It is located at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and University Center (CHU), founded in 1657 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

Two other campuses are the Clignancourt and Malesherbes centers of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in Philosophy, History, Geography, Musicology, English and Spanish take their classes at the Clignancourt center.

All undergraduate students in these academic disciplines study in the central Sorbonne building in their third year.

The Malesherbes Library contains 200,000 works specializing in the study of foreign languages and cultures and 1,200 past and current French and international periodicals.

It hosts the Michelet Library that contains 100,000 volumes of work on art history and archeology with 100 French and international periodicals.

Only 10,000 of the art history and archeology works are open to students, the others requiring special authorization of usage.

The Maison de la Recherche campus is the central building for doctoral studies that hosts the history and geography departments.

The Marcel Bataillon Library houses the Institut d'Études Hispaniques' collection of 25,000 works on Iberian and Latin-American culture.

SUAD is jointly governed by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and by SUAD's board of trustees, with six members, three of whom are appointed by the home Sorbonne University and the other three appointed by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council.

[40] Sorbonne University, in partnership with INSEAD, also offers all of its alumni and PhD students a professionalizing course in business management to complete their curriculum.

This diploma highlights and gathers the skills of the doctors and researchers from the institutions that form Sorbonne University.

This innovative cross-disciplinary approach was embodied with the creation of four new academic positions gathering several establishments of the group:[42] Sorbonne University has formed several partnerships enabling bilateral research programswith academic institutions such as the China Scholarship Council or the Brazilian foundation FAPERJ.