Are you sure there are more than 2410 universities in France? Running the SPARQL query below at https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%28count%28DISTINCT%20%... , I get 218 French universities with a Wikidata item (which usually means there's a corresponding Wikipedia article) but for "higher education institution" I get 675: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%28count%28DISTINCT%20%...

Query:

  SELECT (count(DISTINCT ?school) AS ?count)
  WHERE
  {
    # find instances of subclasses of university Q3918 (use Q38723 for higher education institution)
    ?school wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q3918 .

    # in France
    ?school wdt:P17 wd:Q142 .
  }