This itself was a re-establishment of the original University of Nantes which was established by papal bull in 1460 but was abolished during the French Revolution.

This embodied the wish of François II to affirm his independence towards the French king, while near the duchy in Angers in 1432, Poitiers in 1432 and Bordeaux in 1441, universities were created.

[8] Founded under the structure of a studium generale, this university taught the traditional disciplines: Arts, Theology, Law and Medicine.

Henry IV wanted to punish Nantes, which was loyal to the Catholic League, for its support of Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur.

These places are distributed by the CROUS on a social status basis taking into account the yearly income of the student's parents or legal representative, the number of siblings remaining under the parents' responsibility and the distance between the university and the student's place of residence.

[13] There are two types of residences: The CROUS from Nantes manages the different student restaurants on campus as well as the meals they offer.

Most of the restaurants are open for lunch and dinner from Monday to Friday and offer a complete meal at a price regulated on a yearly basis.

The existing partnerships are ruled according to different international conventions such Erasmus (Europe), ISEP and CREPUQ (Quebec).