University technical institute (France)

A university technical institute or IUT (French: instituts universitaires de technologie) is a type of post-secondary vocational college in France, similar to the yrkeshögskolan in Sweden.

This is a type of educational institution, usually in small and medium-sized towns, that offers post-secondary study programmes designed to provide higher vocational education or the technical skills needed to perform the tasks of a particular and specific job. While the academic level is the same as a bachelor's degree (licence), the programme is different, with much more practical work, projects, apprenticeships and work placements, unlike a traditional bachelor's degree.

Its main diploma, the bachelor universitaire de technologie (in English "University Bachelor of Technical Studies"), is very similar to a Bachelor of Applied Science.

The model of a university technical institute in France is similar to that of a university technical college in England or a post-secondary vocational school. Unlike them, a French university technical institute is attached to a university and offers programmes ranging from associate degrees to bachelor's degrees. University technical institutes have nothing in common with the institutes of technology or Universités de Technologie in France, which are engineering schools.

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