Bachelor of Global Engineering

Overview

The newly created Bachelor of Global Engineering is a joint undergraduate program between CentraleSupélec and McGill University’s Faculty of Engineering.

Over the course of four years, an international cohort will study an intensive and multidisciplinary engineering curriculum taught in English within a French-speaking culture. Students spend two years at CentraleSupélec, where they follow a common curriculum and benefit from the French excellence in mathematics and science within a Grande École. They then spend two years at McGill, specializing in one of the 9 streams offered as part of the program. This new joint program aims at tackling the challenges of the modern world: environmental, societal, and corporate challenges. The curriculum mixes the best of the two systems, develops scientific excellence and best practices for global engineering (in both the multicultural and multidisciplinary sense).

Beyond the strong curriculum, students will enjoy two very different campuses. CentraleSupélec is just 20km away from Paris, in the heart of the “French Silicon Valley,” and the campus hosts numerous sport facilities and student clubs. McGill is in heart of downtown Montreal, one of the most multicultural and vibrant cities in the world.

Upon graduation, students will have the opportunity to join industry, in a broad spectrum of capacities (by working for consulting or engineering firms, or as an entrepreneur), or to continue their studies at the master’s level in France, Canada, or anyother top university.

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Spirit of the program

This new Bachelor aims at reinventing undergraduate engineering programs. It was created around a strong set core of values: excellence, multiculturalism, and sustainable, social and corporate impact.

We summarize the spirit of the training offered by the Global Bachelor of Engineering with the word “global.” On the one hand, it involves exposing young people to different cultures, through the international cohort and through the two countries visited. On the other hand, it involves training engineers with a strong multi and interdisciplinary core training, by exposing them to today’s engineering and corporate challenges, with a specialization in one of 9 important streams.

This program was designed for a fast-changing world, to address corporations’ needs for engineers, and to train future leaders. Over and above a classic engineering curriculum, students will develop and further study relevant issues and develop critical skills during the four years, including  climate change, new technologies, digitalization and programming, innovation, complex problem solving, team work, interculturality, communication, corporate behaviour, and analytical capabilities.

After graduation

Given that no student  has yet graduated from the program, we cannot provide data on future career paths of the program’s graduates. Based on statistics of McGill graduates, 60% continue their studies beyond the bachelor’s degree. They will be competitive candidate for admission to the best masters programs around the world, in engineering, as well as other disciplines. Of course, graduates of the program will be able to apply to graduate school at McGill or in accelerated tracks at French engineering schools, including CentraleSupélec. Students in the program will graduate with 240 European Credits (ECTS), recognized all around Europe, allowing them to pursue masters in M1 or in certain cases directly M2.
The program was designed to address companies’ needs in the context of globalization. Graduates from the program thus will be readily accepted into companies in France, in Canada, but also around the world, from start-ups to  multinationals, as well as companies in between .