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The University of Picardy Jules Verne (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) is a very famous and popular university which is located in Amiens, France. It was established in 1970. It was arranged with the help of the 12 faculties, it is a rather impressing number for the just founded university, is not it? However, that was the only beginning.

In the beginning of the 60’s Amiens joined together in four pre-university level establishments: a law school, a national school of medicine and pharmacy, a science college, an arts school. However, the students were not able to receive a complete education there, they have to graduate somewhere else.

In 1848, the educational institution started to be governed by Lille Academy. However, the institution was aimed to become independent that is why in October 1964, it obtained an academy in Amiens. Robert Mallet was that one to govern the institution. Different faculties had started to appear under his governing, and in 1970, the status of the University of Picardy was approved.

From that time the University of Picardy Jules Verne is rapidly developing, it received such a name in 1992 in honor of the famous writer Jules Verne, who lived in Amiens for some period of time.