The
Université Lille 1 is a
French university located on a dedicated main campus in
Villeneuve d'Ascq with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004). 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140
CNRS researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs. University Lille 1 is a member of the
European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais] which produces 400 doctorate dissertations every year. The university is ranked in the world top 200 universities in
mathematics by the
Shanghai ranking.