I wouldn’t recommend the University experience there. It’s like a super decrepit and super overcrowded* community college for the first year or so, even though the lectures can be good.
- it’s not like in the US where if the lecture hall has 300 students, you register 300 people. In France, the assumption is that if conditions are bad enough 1/3 will give up trying to enter the room before November or December and it’ll be less overcrowded, so everything is booked without much attention to how many students register for the 300-sized hall. If it’s very obvious - like, if 800 students chose the major and it’s a mandatory class, there have been tactics of lottery (people randomly chosen to attend) or sometimes an extra room with a screen and livefeed is opened.