Our university is named after Paul Sabatier, a French scientist born in Carcassonne in 1854. Paul Sabatier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. He was Dean of the Faculty of Sciences in Toulouse and a member of the Academy of Sciences. The Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier has more than 37,000 students and 68 research facilities on its campus.

Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier has a history dating back to the 13th century and is among some of the oldest universities in the world. It was officially founded in 1969 by a merger between the faculties of Medicine, Pharmaceuticals and Science. Its wide range of laboratories and high quality training courses in the fields of science, health, sport, technology and engineering have earned it the reputation of being one of the world's leading scientific universities for over 50 years now. It is ranked among the top 300 institutions for its scientific performance in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU ranking), also known as the Shanghai Ranking.