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Vision & Strategy
Université Paris-Daupine has always been an innovative institution for both research and education. The unique sense of identity that unites our faculty, researchers, staff and students has been strengthened in recent years by Dauphine's growing autonomy, increasingly global perspective and drive for diversity.
Considered a "Grand Etablissement" since 2004 and EQUIS accredited since 2009, Dauphine is recognized as one of the premier European teaching and research universities in the organization and decision sciences.
Today, Dauphine's three strategic objectives are:
- building strategic academic partnerships with prestigious French institutions notably under the PSL initiative for excellence
- strengthening Dauphine's international perspective
- reinforcing and diversifying our financial resources.

Paris Sciences and Letters (PSL*)
Dauphine is a founding member of the Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) initiative for excellence.
PSL is a pluri-disciplinary alliance of France's most prestigious and selective academic institutions who share common values and goals: to foster excellence in taught disciplines and in research, to privilege "human size" organizations and to affirm that striving for excellence requires selective recruiting.
PSL offers Dauphine the opportunity to participate in building one of the world's finest multi-disciplinary research institutions.
Strengthening our International Perspective
International exchange is one of Dauphine's top strategic priorities.
Our efforts to strengthen the Dauphine international perspective focus on:
- developing international research partnerships
- encouraging students to study abroad
- recruiting foreign faculty and students
- creating degree programs in English.
Reinforcing and diversifying our financial resources
In 2010, Dauphine's operating budget was approximately 35 million euros, 60% of which were self-financed through a variety of revenue sources: executive education programs, research contracts, tuition, corporate taxe d'apprentissage contributions…..
To continue funding our development we are reinforcing and diversifying financial resources by:
- expanding our executive education programs
- fund raising through the Dauphine Foundation
- raising fees and tuition for selected programs.





