Add to ORKGVersion auteur incluant des modifications, septembre 2017.International audienceSince, the second half of the 19 th Century, higher education for the native people has started developing in the British, then the French, Asian colonies. Facing the three Indian universities based on the British example, the French higher schools offered a limited vocational training, aiming to provide the colony with useful auxiliaries. In the early 20 th Century, the creation of a university in Hanoi enabled the French to compete with other colonial powers in Asia, including the United Kingdom. But academic rivalries mainly revealed themselves in China, at the heart of informal empires, or at the imperial scale. Indeed, colonial higher education includes mul...