The following higher education institutions gather about 12,000 students:

• The Université du Maine (Department of Letters, Languages and Humanities, Department of Sciences and Techniques)
• 4 engineering schools (ENSIM, ISMANS, ESGT)
• 16 research laboratories (teachers researchers, CNRS)
• IUFM (post-graduate teacher training institute)
• The institutes of technology (4 departments)
• The Centre de Transfert de Technologie du Mans (Centre for Technology Transfer – CTTM) : materials, acoustics, biomedical, R&D centre for the wind cluster
• Groupe CCI Formation, EGC, Groupe ESCRA ISCAM, IDFC-CEL, ISIALM

The European Institute of Acoustics

The Institute will lead a European network of research, training, innovation, economic development and scientific dissemination. With 110 persons Le Mans is the first acoustics laboratory in France.