Centrale Graduate School
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The Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
, Lille
, Lyon
, Marseille
and Nantes
include
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
The Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
, Lille
, Lyon
, Marseille
and Nantes
include
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
The Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
, Lille
, Lyon
, Marseille
and Nantes
include
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
Thus undergraduate studies + the Centralien Programme account for more than a cumulated 300 ECTS
credit in the European education system.
Admission to the master's degree programme (workload is either M1+M2 = 120 ECTS
or M2 = 60 ECTS
) is possible upon application assessment based on academic criteria or is possible as a part of the Centralien Programme.
Several master's degrees are available from the different écoles centrales and may be taught in English and/or French, targeting diverse science and engineering domains :
Admission to specialized master's degree programmes (Mastère spécialisé
) for master's-level specialization and continuing education in specific engineering and management fields (workload is 75 ECTS
) is possible upon application assessment based on candidate profile.
- École centrale ParisÉcole Centrale ParisÉcole Centrale Paris is a French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special status...
established in 1829 - École centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de LilleLocated in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...
established in 1854 - École centrale de LyonÉcole Centrale de LyonThe École Centrale de Lyon, founded in 1857, is one of the oldest universities in France. It is considered as one of the most prestigious French Grandes écoles of engineering continuously ranking as one of the Top 6 French Engineering research institutions for the post Bachelor study...
established in 1857 - École centrale de MarseilleÉcole centrale de MarseilleThe École centrale de Marseille is a Grande école of engineering in Marseille, France, that was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions established in the late 19th century in Marseille, and that implements a Centralien educational Programme for engineers, similar to the...
established in 1890 - École centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de Nantes is one of the French Grandes écoles of engineering.-Location:The Ecole Centrale de Nantes is located in Nantes, France . Nantes is only at two hours by train from Paris...
established in 1919 - École centrale de PékinÉcole centrale de PékinIn 2005, Centrale Graduate School, as a French University-grade Grandes écoles of engineering, helped to open École centrale de Pékin, a new educational partner of their network supporting the Centralien engineering curriculum, at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in...
, established in 2005.
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
Goals
Based on nearly two centuries of recognized Centrale educational know-how in France, the Centrale Graduate School's goal is to promote and implement engineering education with the following characteristics, defined as the Centrale Programme:- multidisciplinary curriculum for engineers, with a broad scope of scientific, engineering and management fields taught to all students (civil engineering; mechanical engineering; electrical engineering; information theory & computer science; control science and signal processing; telecom; chemistry, physics and material sciences; micro-nano technologies; manufacturing; safety, logistics; mathematics; economics; statistics, finance; management ...) applicable for French-speaking students with a solid scientific background knowledge and intellectual agility;
- first two years for acquisition of a Centrale common body of knowledges, with core and elective thematic flexibility, and at least one year of in-depth thematic studies at the end of the programme ;
- close contact with the industry through joint projects and training periods, and requirements for international exposure ;
- academic education and applied research closely related to industry stakeholders ;
- a unique Centrale graduate diploma in each school.
Admission
Education programmes implemented in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
and Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
include
- Ingénieur Centralien (Centrale graduate engineering degree)
- Masters and PhD doctorate studies
- Specialized masters (Mastère MS Spécialisé)
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
ECTS
ECTS may refer to:* Elementary cognitive tasks, from psychometrics* Engine coolant temperature sensor* European Calcified Tissue Society* European Computer Trade Show* European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System...
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
The classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist in two very selective years , acting as a prep course with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrolment in one of the...
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
Baccalauréat
The baccalauréat , often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée . It was introduced by Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies...
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
- a French nationwide selective exam with numerus clausus : concours Centrale-Supelec, with examination centres located throughout France
The Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:
- École centrale ParisÉcole Centrale ParisÉcole Centrale Paris is a French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special status...
established in 1829 - École centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de LilleLocated in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...
established in 1854 - École centrale de LyonÉcole Centrale de LyonThe École Centrale de Lyon, founded in 1857, is one of the oldest universities in France. It is considered as one of the most prestigious French Grandes écoles of engineering continuously ranking as one of the Top 6 French Engineering research institutions for the post Bachelor study...
established in 1857 - École centrale de MarseilleÉcole centrale de MarseilleThe École centrale de Marseille is a Grande école of engineering in Marseille, France, that was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions established in the late 19th century in Marseille, and that implements a Centralien educational Programme for engineers, similar to the...
established in 1890 - École centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de Nantes is one of the French Grandes écoles of engineering.-Location:The Ecole Centrale de Nantes is located in Nantes, France . Nantes is only at two hours by train from Paris...
established in 1919 - École centrale de PékinÉcole centrale de PékinIn 2005, Centrale Graduate School, as a French University-grade Grandes écoles of engineering, helped to open École centrale de Pékin, a new educational partner of their network supporting the Centralien engineering curriculum, at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in...
, established in 2005.
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
Goals
Based on nearly two centuries of recognized Centrale educational know-how in France, the Centrale Graduate School's goal is to promote and implement engineering education with the following characteristics, defined as the Centrale Programme:- multidisciplinary curriculum for engineers, with a broad scope of scientific, engineering and management fields taught to all students (civil engineering; mechanical engineering; electrical engineering; information theory & computer science; control science and signal processing; telecom; chemistry, physics and material sciences; micro-nano technologies; manufacturing; safety, logistics; mathematics; economics; statistics, finance; management ...) applicable for French-speaking students with a solid scientific background knowledge and intellectual agility;
- first two years for acquisition of a Centrale common body of knowledges, with core and elective thematic flexibility, and at least one year of in-depth thematic studies at the end of the programme ;
- close contact with the industry through joint projects and training periods, and requirements for international exposure ;
- academic education and applied research closely related to industry stakeholders ;
- a unique Centrale graduate diploma in each school.
Admission
Education programmes implemented in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
and Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
include
- Ingénieur Centralien (Centrale graduate engineering degree)
- Masters and PhD doctorate studies
- Specialized masters (Mastère MS Spécialisé)
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
ECTS
ECTS may refer to:* Elementary cognitive tasks, from psychometrics* Engine coolant temperature sensor* European Calcified Tissue Society* European Computer Trade Show* European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System...
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
The classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist in two very selective years , acting as a prep course with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrolment in one of the...
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
Baccalauréat
The baccalauréat , often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée . It was introduced by Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies...
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
- a French nationwide selective exam with numerus clausus : concours Centrale-Supelec, with examination centres located throughout France
The Centrale Graduate School is an alliance consisting of the following graduate schools of engineering:
- École centrale ParisÉcole Centrale ParisÉcole Centrale Paris is a French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special status...
established in 1829 - École centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de LilleLocated in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...
established in 1854 - École centrale de LyonÉcole Centrale de LyonThe École Centrale de Lyon, founded in 1857, is one of the oldest universities in France. It is considered as one of the most prestigious French Grandes écoles of engineering continuously ranking as one of the Top 6 French Engineering research institutions for the post Bachelor study...
established in 1857 - École centrale de MarseilleÉcole centrale de MarseilleThe École centrale de Marseille is a Grande école of engineering in Marseille, France, that was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions established in the late 19th century in Marseille, and that implements a Centralien educational Programme for engineers, similar to the...
established in 1890 - École centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de NantesÉcole Centrale de Nantes is one of the French Grandes écoles of engineering.-Location:The Ecole Centrale de Nantes is located in Nantes, France . Nantes is only at two hours by train from Paris...
established in 1919 - École centrale de PékinÉcole centrale de PékinIn 2005, Centrale Graduate School, as a French University-grade Grandes écoles of engineering, helped to open École centrale de Pékin, a new educational partner of their network supporting the Centralien engineering curriculum, at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in...
, established in 2005.
With about 6,000 graduate engineer students and 800 PhD doctorate students, a total faculty of 700 permanent academic members, 2200 part-time lecturers and associate professors, 450 technical and administrative staff, 2000 researchers, the Centrale Graduate School annually approves hundreds of PhD doctorate dissertations and grants 1500 Centrale graduate engineering degrees and other master degrees. Already more than 35,000 Centrale alumni are active today in business, entrepreneurship, research & development, and management in small and large industries worldwide.
Goals
Based on nearly two centuries of recognized Centrale educational know-how in France, the Centrale Graduate School's goal is to promote and implement engineering education with the following characteristics, defined as the Centrale Programme:- multidisciplinary curriculum for engineers, with a broad scope of scientific, engineering and management fields taught to all students (civil engineering; mechanical engineering; electrical engineering; information theory & computer science; control science and signal processing; telecom; chemistry, physics and material sciences; micro-nano technologies; manufacturing; safety, logistics; mathematics; economics; statistics, finance; management ...) applicable for French-speaking students with a solid scientific background knowledge and intellectual agility;
- first two years for acquisition of a Centrale common body of knowledges, with core and elective thematic flexibility, and at least one year of in-depth thematic studies at the end of the programme ;
- close contact with the industry through joint projects and training periods, and requirements for international exposure ;
- academic education and applied research closely related to industry stakeholders ;
- a unique Centrale graduate diploma in each school.
Admission
Education programmes implemented in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
and Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
include
- Ingénieur Centralien (Centrale graduate engineering degree)
- Masters and PhD doctorate studies
- Specialized masters (Mastère MS Spécialisé)
The Centrale Programme (Centrale graduate engineering degree - Grade 300 ECTS
ECTS
ECTS may refer to:* Elementary cognitive tasks, from psychometrics* Engine coolant temperature sensor* European Calcified Tissue Society* European Computer Trade Show* European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System...
) includes a three The Centrale Programme typically includes a three-year curriculum with two years as the core programme ; the third year curriculum may be performed in an Ecole Centrale different from the first two years ; the third year may also include a Master (M2) degree as an elective part of the curriculum, that may be attended in either any Ecole Centrale or in other selected institutes in France or Europe, depending on the target research labs. Alternatively, students from the Centrale programme may decide at the end of the second year to enrol into the TIME double degree process which requires two additional years to get both the Centrale degree and another Master degree, instead of one third year. or fourStudents enrolled as part of the TIME double degree process have to spend two years in their home institute and two years in an Ecole Centrale in order to be granted both Master degrees. -year curriculum. Application to the Centrale Programme is possible after two/three yearConcours Centrale-Supelec competitive exam is opened to any French-speaking undergraduate students. Only bright second-year undergraduates and third-year undergraduates may actually have a chance to succeed at the exam, due to high requirements upon maths and physics knowledge. The scope of knowledges needed is up to and may be beyond a standard bachelor of sciences curriculum. For this reason, about 47,000 undergraduate French students usually attend scientific Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
The classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist in two very selective years , acting as a prep course with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrolment in one of the...
for two or three years, in order to reach the appropriate body of knowledges in these fields. The selective exam takes place every year, with several written parts taken in April-May by about 9,000 candidates simultaneously in many examination centres worldwide ; then multiple individual test sessions take place in June-July at Centrale Paris for those candidates allowed to proceed on the exam process. Candidates are then ranked by order of merit. About 1,300 of them are able to enter Centrale Graduate Schools each year and proceed with Centrale Graduate cursus. (To be compared with the 500,000 students who pass the Baccalauréat
Baccalauréat
The baccalauréat , often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée . It was introduced by Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies...
exam so as to start the French undergraduate cursus and to the 20,000 undergraduate students who actually succeed and enroll in a French engineering school, including Centrale Graduate Schools among others, each year). undergraduate studies in other educational institutes.
Admission to an école centrale requires success in either:
- a French nationwide selective exam with numerus clausus : concours Centrale-Supelec, with examination centres located throughout France Centrale Graduate School admission process for Centrale programme : Concours Centrale-Supelec examination centres are located in France métropolitaineMetropolitan FranceMetropolitan France is the part of France located in Europe. It can also be described as mainland France or as the French mainland and the island of Corsica...
(Europe) and in France Outre MerOverseas departments and territories of FranceThe French Overseas Departments and Territories consist broadly of French-administered territories outside of the European continent. These territories have varying legal status and different levels of autonomy, although all have representation in the Parliament of France , and consequently the...
including examination centres in Guadeloupe and Martinique (Caribbean), La Réunion (Indian Ocean) and New Caledonia (Asia Ocenia), and in Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia Cycle International - Centrale Graduate School admission process for Centralien programme in international examination centres :Concours Centrale-Supelec; - an entrance exam for Bachelors of Sciences : CASTing - Concours d'Admission sur Titre Ingénieur ;
- a selection process as per TIMETop Industrial Managers for EuropeTop Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities....
double degrees procedures applicable in Europe ; - a selection process as per TIME Overseas double degree procedures applicable for selected universities in Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, USA ;
- a specific application process for other international students presented by their originating University.
Thus undergraduate studies + the Centralien Programme account for more than a cumulated 300 ECTS
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
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credit in the European education system.
Admission to the master's degree programme (workload is either M1+M2 = 120 ECTS
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
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or M2 = 60 ECTS
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
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) is possible upon application assessment based on academic criteria or is possible as a part of the Centralien Programme.
Several master's degrees are available from the different écoles centrales and may be taught in English and/or French, targeting diverse science and engineering domains :
- Master's degrees at Centrale Lille
- Master's degrees at Centrale Lyon
- Master's degrees at Centrale Marseille
- Master's degrees at Centrale Nantes
- Master's degrees at Centrale Paris
Admission to specialized master's degree programmes (Mastère spécialisé
Mastère Spécialisé
The Mastère Spécialisé, also called the Specialized Master or Advanced Master is a French post-graduate program created in 1986 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles....
) for master's-level specialization and continuing education in specific engineering and management fields (workload is 75 ECTS
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
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) is possible upon application assessment based on candidate profile.