University of Montpellier Paul Valéry (French: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), also known as or UPVM or Montpellier III is a public research university in Montpellier, France. It is one of the three successor universities of the University of Montpellier. The university specialises in arts, language and social sciences.
The university is a member of the Coimbra Group, an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard.
The University of Montpellier (French: Université de Montpellier) is a public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world.
The university was split into three universities (the University of Montpellier 1, the University of Montpellier 2 and the Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3) for 45 years from 1970 until 2015 when it was subsequently reunified by the merger of the two former, with the latter, now named Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, remaining a separate entity.