The DU Passerelle - Students in exile is aimed at non-French speaking students:
- not having been able to join the university in their country of origin (baccalaureate level) or having had to interrupt their university studies
- university graduates (from bachelor's to master's) who need to acquire a very good command of French to practice their profession, take exams and equivalence competitions or partially reorient themselves to access the French labor market.
The DU Passerelle is reserved only for students with refugee status, asylum seeker or who are under subsidiary protection regime.
Students enrolled in this DU take the same courses as other CIEF students but are exempt from registration fees.