ESIGETEL was founded in 1986 by the Melun

Melun

Melun is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Located in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, Melun is the capital of the department, as the seat of an arrondissement...

 Chamber of Commerce. Most students joining ESIGETEL follow the traditional path to the Grandes écoles

Grandes écoles

The grandes écoles of France are higher education establishments outside the main framework of the French university system. The grandes écoles select students for admission based chiefly on national ranking in competitive written and oral exams...

and come from preparatory classes (two years) and graduate in three years.

ESIGETEL is in the vicinity of Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the arrondissement of Fontainebleau...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and is a member of the Polytechnicum of Marne la Vallée.

Curriculum

ESIGETEL has been focused on teaching new technologies in the fields of telecommunications, networking, information systems, and computer science since its inception.

The three-year curriculum covers six primary domains in the first and second years:

• Computer science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  
• Networks
  Telecommunications network
  A telecommunications network is a collection of terminals, links and nodes which connect together to enable telecommunication between users of the terminals. Networks may use circuit switching or message switching. Each terminal in the network must have a unique address so messages or connections...
  
  
• Mathematics
  Mathematics
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
  
   and signal processing
  Signal processing
  Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...
  
  
• Electronics
  Electronics
  Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
  
  
• Economy
  Economy
  An economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area; the labor, capital and land resources; and the manufacturing, trade, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area...
  
  
• Languages

and four options in the third year year:

• Embedded system
  Embedded system
  An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
  
  
• Software systems and networks
  Telecommunications network
  A telecommunications network is a collection of terminals, links and nodes which connect together to enable telecommunication between users of the terminals. Networks may use circuit switching or message switching. Each terminal in the network must have a unique address so messages or connections...
  
  
• Mobile & Radio Communications
• System & Network Administration & Architecture

Official school sites

• Official school website
• Site du gala
• [irc://irc.esigetel.fr/ The School's IRC server], member of the GeekNode network

School student sites

• le BDE: bureau des élèves
• la SCER (la Junior-Entreprise)
• L'association sportive de Lafeymas (bureau des sports)
• Association 4L Clan qui participe au 4L Trophy
• Association voile Sillage
• Club BD/manga
• AAEE (Association des Anciens Elèves de l'ESIGETEL)
• Club Robotique de l'ESIGETEL