[4] The university headquarter is located in the École de Médecine building, in the 6th arrondissement at boulevard Saint-Germain.

[10] Their proposal was adopted on 12 November 1968;[10] in accordance with the new law, the faculties of the University of Paris were to reorganize themselves.

The projects put forward by these initial meetings of institutions were not retained in the first phase of the campus plan of April 2008, and new links are being formed.

[4] Paris Cité University is a scientific, cultural and professional experimental public institution.

The teaching facilities and the research laboratories are housed in the Cordeliers Convent centre and the Saints-Pères building (the former Nouvelle Faculté de Médecine), as far as the medical school and the social sciences school are concerned, and in the Bichat and Villemin university campuses.

The headquarters of the Department of Physics is in the Condorcet building, in The Great Mills of Paris campus.

The undergraduate program of Paris Cité University is selective, with an acceptance rate of 11% (for Descartes campuses only).

[22] On 11 October 2019, the board of directors elected Clarisse Berthezène as vice-president and Alexandré Severin as manager of scholarship administrators.

The president is elected by the executive board for a four-year term, renewable once, from among teacher-researchers, researchers, professors or lecturers, associates or guests.