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Intersecting quantitative analysis using optimal matching (sequencing) with multiple qualitative interviews with students in Law or AES (French academic courses including social administration and mainly targeting professional and technological students) in and around Paris, this article shows how academic courses vary according to fields of study and chosen institutions. Typology emphasizes the prevalence of stable courses (unchanging university), whereas exit trajectories from the university system are mainly explained according to field of study and geography (Paris/suburban area). Lastly, inter-university trajectories, which are few, disclose a “positioning insight” on behalf of students who tend to appeal to the best universities because of their upscale background.