The Third University takes its character mainly from language study, offering 23 different foreign language departments. The numbers of students also increased after 1968 and is still on the up today. There is at present a total of 60,000 students at Lyon.
學生人數也在六八年之後大增，至今仍在繼續成長，總計目前里昂大學學生，共達六萬人。