It was more than one hundred years ago that a group of well-known people in the Grenoble area, among them key figures from the university, as well as from politics and industry, decided to create a center for the study of French as an exchange student at the University of Grenoble.

Grenoble University today ...

Today there is an exceptionally varied and specialized pedagogical team of instructors at the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, France who are specialists of French as a foreign language. More than 70 nationalities meet in the corridors of the CUEF, work together in the classrooms, and mix at student restaurants on campus. Students from all over the world study abroad in grenoble, France for its rich culture. However they soon find that they are also enriched by the variety of cultures present at the University of Grenoble.

The majority of those who enroll at the University of Grenoble are university students, but two other categories of enrollees also exist - practicing teachers who want to participate in a university program either for initial training or continuing education, and working adults who simply need a good knowledge of French in their professional life.
During the course of the academic year and the summer the University of Grenoble welcomes around 3000 people who have come to take either language courses or teacher-training courses. The duration of their visits vary in length from four weeks to one academic year.

They Studied in Grenoble In 1896

A young German scholar was the pioneer student of the University of Grenoble. He was the first of many and throughout the years certain then anonymous students have gone on to become world leaders. These include Vigdis Finbogadottir, the former President of Iceland, Richard von Weizacker, former President of Germany, and more recently Masako Owada, Princess of Japan, who took courses at the University of Grenoble in July and August, 1983.