These University Studies represent the first year of a process to integrate foreign students in the French university system.

Three objectives:

• Place the students in a situation of language immersion so they will be prepared to follow courses in management, marketing, sales, etc., (taught in BUT Marketing Techniques) or mechanics, mathematics, electronics, computering, etc., (taught in BUT in Mechanical and Production Engineering / Applied Physics / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
• Help foreign students to know more about the methods of teaching in French universities.
• Reinforce and complete the required knowledge in different majors to enter a BUT / Bachelor Degree.

What to do after getting the DU FLEST?

• 75% enter a BUT
  Marketing Techniques, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering,
  Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• 20% enter a 1st year of Bachelor Degree
• 5%: other

Courses spread over 32 weeks, from 20 to 25 hours per week at the IUT, plus personal work.

Marketing techniques (3 teaching units / majors)

• Languages and communication (including 380 hours of French as a foreign language)
• Firm environment
• Sales Techniques

Engineering (3 teaching units / majors)

• Languages and communication (including 380 hours of French as a foreign language)
• Basic sciences
• Scientific techniques

Throughout the year, foreign students are tutored by French students (2 hours a week). French students provide foreign students with an individual help depending on the needs.

Requirements for entering first year undergraduate degree (at the end of the preparation year in French):

• No teaching unit below 8 points out of 20
• Minimum of 10 points out of 20
• 400 points at the TCF (B2 of the Common European Framework)

Class attendance is compulsory.