CAEN and the surrounding area
Caen, the 3rd best student city in France!
Caen has climbed to third place in l’Étudiant’s 2024 ranking of the best student cities in France, ex aequo with Toulouse, behind Montpellier and Rennes! With 36,000 students, over a third of the city’s population, Caen is a true student metropolis. Both cultural and festive, the city offers an ideal environment in which to study and have fun.
With a total score of 90 out of 121 points, the city scored 14/20 for attractiveness, 17/20 for education, 24/30 for student life, 29/41 for quality of life and 6/10 for employment. The city’s attractive housing offer is another plus for young people looking for quality higher education and a fulfilling student life!

Culture
3 cinemas : Gaumont Pathé located at the Rives de l’Orne and 2 art-house cinemas: “Le Café des images” and “Le Lux”
3 concert halls : the Cargö, the Big Band Café et the Zénith
Festivals : Beauregard, Nördik Impakt, the Boréales…
Museums : Museum of Fine Arts, Normandy Museum, Memorial of Caen
Theaters : The Theatre and the Comédie de Caen
Sport Activities
Swimming pools : Aquatic sports center, Chemin-Vert, Grâce de Dieu …
Stadiums : Hélitas Stadium, Venoix Velodrome Stadium, Michel d’Ornano football stadium
Sea Sports : 10 kilometres from Caen
Hiking and Mountain Bike tours : in the woods of Grimbosq – 15 km from Caen
Social life
The Port where you can find the best restaurants, bars and nightclubs
The Rue de Geôle, next to Campus 1, a 100% student atmosphere with student prices
The rue Ecuyère, street known as the most festive street of Caen
Football matches of the Caen football team at the Ornano Stadium
Caen Open Tennis tournament at the Zenith
Caen Carnival, the biggest students carnival in Europe
Running events : the Courant de la Liberté, the Rochambelle…
CAEN, in Normandy
Traditionally known for its history and culture, Caen is an attractive place to study, near the sea and Norman countryside, and only 2 hours from Paris.
At the heart of a metropolitan area of over 300 000 inhabitants, including 34 000 students, Caen is close to many major historical and cultural sites including the D-Day landing beaches, the Memorial for Peace and the Mont-St-Michel.
Caen is a city of innovation and challenge, committed to the high-tech industry and offering higher education and research in all the major subject areas.
Caen is an attractive city for all kinds of sporting activities (on land and water), art galleries and historical museums, as well as music festivals. The area also offers :
- theatres, concert halls, cinemas, shopping centres,
- and a football stadium–home to the Caen national League 2 team.
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For further information
Caen and its region
Caen la Mer : https://www.caenlamer.fr/
La région : https://www.normandie.fr/
Tourist Office of Caen : https://www.caenlamer-tourisme.fr/
Accommodation
Kley : https://www.kley.fr/caen/
Sphinx : https://www.sphinx-residences.fr/
Partélios : https://www.partelios.fr/
CROUS : http://www.crous-normandie.fr/
Traveling
Trains: SNCF : https://www.sncf.com/fr
Buses : https://fr.ouibus.com/
https://www.flixbus.fr/
Airport Carpiquet : https://www.caen.aeroport.fr/
Administration
Prefecture : http://www.calvados.gouv.fr/
Public Transportation
Twisto : https://www.twisto.fr/
Networks



Contact our team
International Office
+33 (0)2 31 45 27 72
international@ensicaen.fr