L’université de La Rochelle est une université française pluridisciplinaire de 7 000 étudiants. Fondée en 1993, son campus est située dans le quartier des Minimes à La Rochelle.
The University of La Rochelle is a French university, based in La Rochelle. It is under the Academy of Poitiers. The university was founded in 1993, and is the youngest university in France. The first stone was laid by François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl. It attempts to stand out by offering innovative courses in business law and the Asian-Pacific world. At the start of the year 2000 there were 6000 students. Alongside these university courses there are other colleges like the hotel school, the law school, the business school, the School of Mass Communications etc.