The university was officially founded in 1979 from several colleges founded in the 1960s and 1970s. To avoid a straight choice between the two biggest towns of the Savoie/Haute-Savoie departments, the authorities decided to set up a campus in each city for different areas of study. The university has three campuses:

The Annecy campus is the university's "technology institute" (IUT), and teaches engineering-related subjects and business and administration related subjects. Here is located the faculty of economics and management (IMUS, Institut de Management de l'Université de Savoie).
Jacob-Bellecombette (1.5 km south of Chambéry) is the campus for students of languages, literature, social sciences, law and economics. It has a library, sports hall and one cafeteria.
The Technolac campus at Bourget-du-Lac (12 km north of Chambéry) teaches science.
In addition, the university's presidence and administrative buildings are located in Chambéry.

History

Head office in Chambéry
Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of Savoy. The University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an école préparatoire, a school preparing students to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and Turin took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563.
The annexation of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an académie between 1860 and 1920, but not a university.
During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy Collège Scientifique Universitaire (CSU) was created, then a Collège Littéraire Universitaire (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the Centre Universitaire de Savoie (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the Institut Universitaire Technologique (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the Université de Savoie and then in May 2014 Université Savoie Mont Blanc [1]
Departments
Annecy
IUT d'Annecy
Département Techniques de Commercialisation
Département Mesures Physiques
Département Génie Mécanique et Productique
Département Génie Électrique et Informatique Industrielle
Département Réseaux et Télécoms
IAE Savoie Mont Blanc
Polytech Annecy-Chambéry
Jacob-Bellecombette
School of literature, languages and human sciences (LLSH)
School of law and business
IAE Savoie Mont Blanc
Bourget-du-Lac
School of applied sciences
IUT de Chambéry
Polytech Annecy-Chambéry
Notable people
Faculty
Michel Soutif (1921 – 2016) - physicist and educator
Alumni
Aicha Elbasri (born in Morocco) - writer and former United Nations official
Surano (born 1955) - geophysicist and volcanologist from Indonesia
Ulla Tørnæs (born 1962, in Esbjerg) - Danish politician
Yang Lan (born 1968, Beijing) - media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host
Bruno Wu (born 1966) - Chinese entrepreneur
Xavier Roseren (born 1970, in Chamonix) - shopkeeper and politician LREM
Yann Barthès (born 1974) - journalist, TV presenter and producer
Émilie Bonnivard (born 1980) politician LR
Léo Trespeuch (born 1987) - snowboarding champion
Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990) - sprinter
Clément Noël (born 1997) - alpine ski racer
Recipients of honorary degree
Norberto Bobbio (1909 – 2004) - Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought
Fabiola Gianotti (born 1960) - Italian experimental particle physicist; first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
References
 "A new identity for University of Savoy Mont Blanc". Savoy