Our courses

Welcoming and help our students to succeed in our courses has been our goal for more than 50 years. We offer students a 3 years training in technical higher education.
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Chemistry is present in all different business sectors and can constantly be applied in our everyday lives. The subject plays an essential role in the health, cosmetics, transport and food-processing industries. From a sustainable development perspective, it also contributes to reducing pollution from human endeavours. Our Chemistry department welcomes around 200 students each year, spread between the University Bachelor of Technology (B.U.T) and one Vocational Bachelor degree (Licence Professionnelle).

If you are interested in chemistry, regardless of the field (petrochemistry, chemical industry, food industry, pharmaceutics, energy production) and you feel affected by environmental issues (water treatment, air, water and soil quality control), join the Chemistry Department at ou Sète Campus. Here you will find a welcoming work environment with a purposefully small number of students (200 students across 3 years) which helps provide an excellent quality of training and a more personalized assessment.
You can find more about the Sète Campus on their website (in French)

A great choice for your future projects! In choosing the Biological Engineering Department at the IUT Montpellier-Sète you enter a selective training offering a wide range of career opportunities. You will receive a high-quality technical training regarding cutting-edge methods and tools used in the field of biology.
Our aim is to train students to become technicians and executives who are ready to enter the field and capable of evolving to fit new economic and technological requirements : Qualifed technicians (B.U.T) ; Engineers’ assistants (Vocational Bachelors)

The Applied Physics Department offers a fascinating multidisciplinary course leading to a thriving job market with opportunities in all industrial fields, including the most prestigious and most satisfying. Qualified technicians work in close collaboration with engineers. They design tests, which they then perform and analyse. They conduct tests and other samples before reporting back to the engineer. They also sometimes work with other technicians, either as backup or to delegate tasks, or other workers in order to make any mechanical parts of electronic circuits necessary for conducting test.
Benefits of the course include: multidisciplinary courses that strike the perfect balance between theoretical and practical training. Guaranteed professional integration after graduation. Further studies for over 90% of our graduates. Work-study programme available on the 2nd year of training providing students with the opportunity to gain a professionnal experience.

The Electrical Engineering and Automation Department provides students with a joint specialisation. Industries and services have considerable needs in terms of energy, telecommunications and automation. We offer training in a wide variety of subjects with a well-balanced curriculum: scientific, technological and people skills that are all assets on the job market.

Computer Science is an up-and-coming field! The IUT’s Computer Science Department trains students for careers in computing and technical support in order to best meet companies’needs. Examples of intented professions include: Web application developer, online game developer, database administrator, network and security administrator. Our goal is to train technicians and executives who will be fully equipped and capable of adapting to companies economic and technological needs. Furthermore, thanks to the fundamental theoretical knowledge they will acquired throughout the course students can pursue further studies.

The Business and Marketing Department provides three-years courses preparing students for positions where they are qualified to collaborate with marketing departments within industrial or trading companies (marketins, sales, distribution, international trade) and craft businesses. Some students choose to start their own business or take over an existing one.

The Business and Administration Department offers a professional integration in management. The aim of this course is to ensure that students can fulfill leadership positions in organisation management: companies in the public and private sectors, administrations, public authorities and associations.