Université Jean Monnet, founded in 1969, is a comprehensive university enrolling approximately 17,000 students.
It consists of

• 5 faculties: Arts, letters, and languages; humanities and social sciences; law; science and technology; and medicine.
• 1 department: politic sciences
• 4 institutes: Institute of business administration; Télécom Saint-Etienne (a school of engineering); and the Saint-Etienne and Roanne university institutes of technology.