Young people and University in the «Nord-Pad-de-Calais» Region: between Mobility and Captivity In some areas, including the «Nord-Pas-de-Calais» region, to facilitate higher education démocratisation process, new places of formation have been created, first in the form of establishments depending on mother Universities, then new universities have been built. University patterns have been completely modified by these recent establishments for ten years. In the same time, a general growth of the population of students and a progressive compensation between different areas became to be visible. The spatial localisation of the establishments is crucial : the distance between the residence of potential students and universities has a determinan...