Campus and city
There is no single campus: roughly 45,000 students are spread across about 26 sites in central Paris. The administrative heart is the Centre Panthéon (12 place du Panthéon, 5th arrondissement) and the historic Centre Sorbonne, while most first- and second-year students study at the modern Pierre Mendès-France (Tolbiac) tower in the 13th, with further sites including the Institut de Géographie, Centre Michelet, Centre Saint-Charles and the Campus Condorcet. The upside is an unrivalled location among Paris's courts, museums, libraries and institutions; the downside is fragmented, large-scale public-university life with limited integrated residential or social infrastructure and acute, expensive Paris housing — student life is what you make of it across the city rather than a contained campus community.