The French educational system is highly centralized, organized, and ramified. It is divided into three different stages:

• the primary education (enseignement primaire);
• secondary education (enseignement secondaire);
• higher education (enseignement supérieur).

This degrees are recognized by the Bologna Process

Bologna process

The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...

 (EU recognition):

• Licence and Licence Professionnelle (Bachelor)
• Master (Master)
• Doctorat (Doctorate)

While the French trace the development of their educational system to Napoléon, the modern era of French education begins at the end of the nineteenth century.