About the Location
The Université Lumière Lyon 2 is located in Lyon and has 27300 students, 5000 international students and 32 research laboratories. The Université Lumière Lyon 2 welcomes nearly 30,000 students on two campuses to its bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The University has been committed to a strong and demanding vision of Higher Education and Research, driven by a spirit and values that are also its trademark: human and humanistic, committed and supportive, democratic and civic-minded.
Lyon is a major city in south-eastern France and the second most important city in France after Paris. With 522,250 inhabitants in the city center, Lyon is the third largest city center in the country after Paris and Marseille and also the core city of the Métropole de Lyon, which has 1,424,069 inhabitants. Lyon's gastronomy enjoys a worldwide reputation. The diversity of its traditional cuisine has its origins in the rare combination of proximity to the Alps and navigable access to the Mediterranean.
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