These programs give students the opportunity to complete a semester or even an academic year in immersion in an interdisciplinary program covering science, engineering and social sciences.

CentraleSupélec has adopted the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Students can complete international placements of varying lengths in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd year (no tuition fees owing for students from partner universities), or in laboratories of the school to develop projects. Results obtained are transmitted to students’ home universities:

• 1st-year classes (3rd year of higher education) for the Supélec Engineering program: Fall Semester and/or Spring Semester
• 2nd-year classes (4th year of higher education) for the Supélec or École Centrale Engineering programs: Fall Semester and/or Spring Semester.
• 3rd-year classes (5th year of higher education) for the École Centrale Engineering program: entire year + internship
• Classes + research project in one of the CentraleSupélec laboratories. Students should contact the research laboratory director before applying. 

Course Catalog Centrale track

Academic calendar

1^st and 2^nd years of Engineering studies

• Fall Semester (1^st semester): beginning of September – end of January
• Spring Semester (2^nd semester): beginning of February – mid-June

3^rd year of Engineering studies

• 1^st period (classes): beginning of September – end of March
• 2^nd period (internship): beginning of April – end of September

Since 1989, CentraleSupélec has developed partnerships with high-ranking international universities in order to forge double-degree agreements.

Today, students from more than 80 universities with double degree agreements spend two years completing their engineering studies with CentraleSupélec and can simultaneously obtain engineering diplomas from the school and from their home universities.

Conditions of admission

Students must be registered with a partner university that has signed a double-degree agreement with CentraleSupélec (Supélec/École Centrale Engineering programs); these students may apply once they have been nominated by the International Relations office of their home universities

Double degree programs:

1st year + 2nd year double degree (3rd & 4th year of higher education)
International students having completed at least two years of higher education studies can apply to CentraleSupélec for the 1st year (Supélec or École Centrale Engineering programs) and return to their home universities to finalize their Master’s degree or equivalent

2A+3A double degree (4th & 5th year of higher education)
International students having completed at least three years of higher education can apply for the CentraleSupélec Engineering program to enter in the 2nd year.

Understanding the Grandes Écoles system

In France, scientific and technical training at Master’s level are provided:   

• either by the university stream according to the B.M.D. organization which follows the harmonization of European higher education programs
• or through the Grandes Écoles, which admit students after a national entrance exam which they prepare for intensively over two years in Preparatory Classes (very advanced lessons in mathematics and physics) in Grandes Écoles.

CentraleSupélec is an engineering Grande École, ranked among the three best engineering schools in France.

The school delivers a Master’s level Engineering degree after two years of intensive coursework in fundamental, technical and human sciences, followed by scientific Preparatory Classes and three years of interdisciplinary training in engineering sciences and complex systems.

In France, an Engineering graduate can also pursue a doctorate.

T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) – 53 partners

The T.I.M.E. network was founded in 1989 (the former École Centrale Paris was one of the founding members) and unites 53 of the best engineering schools and universities in Europe and more recently from all over the world (Brazil, China, Japan). Of the more than 3,000 double-degree graduates in the network, more than half completed a CentraleSupélec double degree.

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Groupe des Ecoles Centrale (GEC)

Created in 1990, this unites the five Écoles Centrales: École Centrale Marseille, École Centrale Nantes, École Centrale Lille, École Centrale Lyon and CentraleSupélec. These five schools aim to work together on international education, research and innovation, and on recruiting the best international students.

Alliance4Tech

Alliance4Tech

is a strategic alliance created by CentraleSupélec, Politecnico di Milano, Technische Universität Berlin and University College London with the objective of creating a European campus without borders to facilitate student and instructor/staff mobility.

Alliance4Tech is founded on shared values:

• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Leadership and creativity
• Social and ethical responsibility
• Cultural diversity and an international environment

Through its various actions, Alliance4Tech aims to:

• promote shared programs and provide students with the opportunity to spend one or two trimesters in partner universities;
• encourage instructor exchanges’
• develop a shared strategy concerning emerging countries.

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Vison2020 (en Anglais)

Launched in April 2013, Vision2020 is a European networking platform that enables SMEs, universities and corporate to collaborate effectively through the Horizon 2020 EU funding program.
 

Vision2020 was launched to foster business-university collaboration across Europe for organizations that wanted to tap into the EU Horizon 2020 fund for research and innovation. Essentially the ethos behind Vision2020 is to bring together excellence-based research organizations and highly innovative SMEs so that they can form trusted consortia and collaborate together effectively. The main goal is to facilitate this process and connect innovators across different sectors.

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The 5+6 program with China – 5 Écoles Centrales and 6 Chinese universities

This network, which associates the five Écoles Centrales with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Southwest Jiaotong University, has existed for the past 20 years. It was developed on the same exchange model as the T.I.M.E. network and trains around 50 double-degree students per year.

The 5+6 program with Brazil – 5 Écoles Centrales and 6 Brazilian universities

At the beginning of the 2000s, this was a network uniting the five Écoles Centrales with the School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Ceará, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of Campinas, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. It was created to develop double-degree exchanges between France and Brazil. Today, École Centrale Paris trains around 15 double-degree students per year between the two countries.

CESAER – 50 institutions in 24 countries

CentraleSupélec is also a member of the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER). This is a network of excellence aiming to promote innovation and good practice to maintain standards of quality in engineering training.

Erasmus +

This program is funded by the European Union and supports exchanges between higher education institutions in Europe with the aim of:

• improving the quality and strengthening the European dimension of higher education;
• increasing mobility of university students, instructors and staff;
• reinforcing multilateral cooperation among higher education institutions themselves, and between higher education institutions and companies;
• practicing transparency and recognition of qualifications obtained in higher education and higher vocational education in Europe. 

See the Erasmus+ CentraleSupélec charter

Erasmus Mundus programs

Since 2008, the school has been committed to Erasmus Mundus programs, initially as a partner and later as a coordinator. It therefore contributes to strengthening the ties between Europe and China with TANDEM, and with the Japan/Korea region with BEAM and EASED.

Horizon2020

Horizon 2020 is the European Union funding program for research and innovation for the 2014-2020 period. It focuses its financing on achieving three priorities: scientific excellence, industrial primacy and social challenges.

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The CentraleSupélec Grand Établissement, resulting from the two Grands Établissements École Centrale Paris and Supélec, is founded on the historical international ambitions of these two institutions. With three national campuses, in Gif-sur-Yvette, Rennes and Metz, CentraleSupélec is developing international openness according to the strengths of each campus, with the following aims:

• To train the best French and international students, destined for international careers, to the highest level
• To develop research that is renowned for its excellence among peers and to serve society
• To support global companies in their markets and large organizations in their activities

For more than 25 years, CentraleSupélec, along with the other members of the École Centrale Group (École Centrale Marseille, École Centrale Nantes, École Centrale Lille and École Centrale Lyon), has developed a worldwide network of top-ranking partner universities: in the major European countries with the T.I.M.E. network (Top Industrial Managers for Europe created in 1989 on the initiative of École Centrale Paris), in China with the 5+6 double degree exchange program created in 1995, and in Brazil with the 5+6 double degree network.

Since 2000, CentraleSupélec has furthermore developed bilateral relationships with the best institutions in the USA (in particular Stanford, Columbia, Penn State and Georgia Tech), in the UK (Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, etc.), in Singapore (NUS, NTU, etc.), and in Japan (Keio, Tohoku, Waseda, etc.), South Korea (KAIST, Hanyang, etc.), South America (USP, Unicamp, etc.), Australia (UQ, UNSW, etc.) and has coordinated large Erasmus Mundus partnership programs with many regions all over the world.

In the creation of CentraleSupélec, the partnership policy of the four national campuses will initially be shared, optimized and aligned with the institution’s global development strategy applied to the two existing Engineering programs, (École Centrale and Supélec) and research and innovation activities.

In a second step (slated for 2017), CentraleSupélec will develop a unified CentraleSupélec Engineering program, the format of which is to be defined, but having a strong international dimension and developed from the existing programs.

Already, CentraleSupélec has established a policy to intensify its international activities on each continent, strengthening its relationships with essential partners to go beyond simple student exchanges and even beyond double degrees.

In parallel, CentraleSupélec will pursue the policy initiated in 2005 by École Centrale Paris of developing a network of international campuses:

• in China with an academic partner,
• in India with an industrial partner and
• in Morocco with a State partner.

This network of institutions, a truly regional web, will be one of the important aspects of CentraleSupélec’s globalization and of the internationalization of its future unified program, its students and its teaching body.

With this across-the-board internationalization strategy, CentraleSupélec is strengthening its partnerships around three major fields: training, research and business, adopting a spirit of innovation fully embracing new digital technologies.

The aim of CentraleSupélec is to rapidly reach a level of 40% international students (Master’s, Engineering and Doctoral students), especially from other European countries. For double degrees, the school will continue to test new multi-site partnerships enabling French and foreign students to finish their studies in France or to complete a true shared experience of studies between two countries in a co-developed program.

For credit exchanges, CentraleSupélec targets the spring semester for a maximum of exchanges with a significant and thematic English component offering. A mobility specialty program is offered to students at the end of their program or seeking a specialization is aligned with their initial training.

To increase the volume of its recruitment, CentraleSupélec will develop a fee-based training program and access routes for engineering training for students from non-partner universities outside of Europe. This offering will be progressively developed with the creation of training programs taught entirely in English as well as international doctorate programs, particularly in Cotutelle (an agreement on joint supervision on the doctoral degree level), already initiated for Université Paris-Saclay. Given the expected growth of French-speaking students in the world, particularly in Africa, the English offerings will not compromise the French programs, which will remain a major asset of CentraleSupélec.

For outgoing mobility, compulsory for all CentraleSupélec students, a special effort will be made to increase the attractiveness of major non English-speaking destinations that are currently less popular among students. Brazil in particular has experienced an increase in popularity among students as a result of CentraleSupélec team measures, and conferences, forums, student trips, etc., will be proposed for these destinations.

All of these types of mobility will benefit from the international development of the Université Paris-Saclay, which is seeking to forge strong partnerships worldwide. With its partners on the Saclay Plateau, CentraleSupélec will play a central role within the future School of Engineering.

Research and large European programs

In terms of research, CentraleSupélec has high ambitions in the field of engineering sciences, particularly in complex systems science. Internationally, its objectives are:

• to be an active member of the Horizon 2020 program for European and international research;
   
• to develop mobility, especially with its main partners, for doctoral students (Cotutelle in particular), post-doctoral students and teaching staff, within Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus+ or Horizon 2020 programs;
   
• to promote close collaboration between research teams with these partners.

Consequently, CentraleSupélec is developing an expertise for responding to international and European (Erasmus+ in particular), regional and national calls for tender, as well as coordination and management of these programs in cooperation with its partners to optimize funding and scholarships for its incoming and outgoing students and staff.

Companies and professional mobility

CentraleSupélec is extending its company partnership offer to include international companies and organizations, particularly in the countries in which it has schools, such as China, India and Morocco, but not exclusively in those countries. Through such means as projects, internships, events like job fairs, visits and study trips, CentraleSupélec boasts its entrepreneurial activity and presence on six continents. Supported by regional groups of alumni graduates, CentraleSupélec intends to create a network of partner companies abroad, a powerful network which promotes the professional mobility of its students and international insertion of its young graduates.

Institution

Beyond those activities cited above, CentraleSupélec will also pursue its goal to become more international within the Université Paris-Saclay itself by:

• increasing recruitment of foreign instructors and researchers;
• developing trips abroad for instructors, researchers and staff members;
• increasing the international dimension of training programs by offering courses taught entirely in English and creating new international programs;
• training support staff to work more closely with international student/instructor/researcher/staff profiles.

For CentraleSupélec, forging partnerships in programs or networks with high global visibility is aligned with its desire to gain an international reputation among students, companies and institutions all over the world.

Developing an international group

With a network of 176 partner universities in 45 countries, CentraleSupélec is building a truly global group of interconnected schools, which will continue to expand. We are an international institution with a 30% student population from overseas, representing nearly 70 nationalities. 50% of our local students opt for a double-degree internationally.

In November 2015, the 5 schools of the Groupe École Centrale revamped their organisational framework, reflecting the schools' desire to strengthen their cooperation and develop their international policy.

The Groupe Ecole Centrale has also been making strides in the developing the project of the Ecole Centrale Afrique Australe ​​in Mauritius. The group also signed, in October 2015, a memorandum of understanding with the University of São Paulo to study the advisability of opening a new school in Brazil.

CentraleSupélec, a higher education institution with a global vision 

In our diverse and changing world, international development is at the heart of CentraleSupélec’s strategy. An integral part of our DNA since the creation of École Centrale Paris and École Supérieure d’Électricité in the 19^th century, their international openness has taken on a spectacular dimension in the past 30 years, particularly with the vision of the double degree program, the creation of the T.I.M.E. network, compulsory international mobility for our students and the creation of international campuses. The creation of CentraleSupélec in 2015, forged in a merger of the two historical mother schools, has enriched and consolidated this dynamic to project the institution into the future with a 2030 vision, in which only the most innovative and value-creating institutions will thrive.

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Today, CentraleSupélec has already been recognized for its enthusiastic and innovative international actions, which make it highly visible and attractive both in France and worldwide:

• The school is a key national actor as well as within the European Higher Education and Research Area.
• It is positioned at the highest level among its academic peers worldwide.
• It offers the best opportunities for international mobility and programs for students and staff.
• It attracts and exchanges with the top professionals in the world of research and business and attracts and trains the best students.

The new CentraleSupélec, a founding member of Université Paris-Saclay and leader of the École Centrale Group, is forging a path through a complex and competitive terrain with the aim of becoming a school of reference in its field, visible and attractive in the panorama of higher education and research and ranked among the best institutions in the world.

• Technicien en Biotransformation

• Ingénieur d’Etudes informatique sur le domaine de la scolarité

  MISSION : Nous cherchons un ingénieur d’études pour le domaine Scolarité et Développement Commercial qui aura pour missions principales :

  • analyser les pratiques des utilisateurs opérationnels et comprendre leurs besoins
  • formaliser des propositions d’évolution des applications pour mieux répondre aux besoins et optimiser les processus
  • formaliser le cahier des charges à l’attention des développeurs internes ou externes
  • piloter les fournisseurs le cas échant
  • paramétrer les logiciels (sur étagère ou spécifiques)
  • effectuer les recettes suite aux développements ou aux paramétrages
  • créer les supports de formation et former les utilisateurs
  • assurer un support au quotidien

CentraleSupelec Management:

• Mr Romain Soubeyran, President of CentraleSupélec

• Mr Philippe Dufourcq, Deputy Director General

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is composed of founding members representing the following public authorities:

Ministry of Higher Education:

• Françoise Moulin-Civil

Ministry of Industry:

• Vincent Thery

Regional Council:

• Olivier Mousson

Paris-Saclay University:

• Sylvie Retailleau, President

Qualified representatives:

•     Christine Benard, former Director of Research and Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and former Scientific Director of MICHELIN
•     François Darchis, former Executive Director of AIR LIQUIDE (research, innovation)
•     Delphine Ernotte Cunci, President of FRANCE TELEVISIONS
•     Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, President and CEO of ESSEC
•     Christian Galivel, Deputy Director General of RATP
•     Marie-Luce Godinot, Deputy CEO of BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION
•     Valérie Kniazeff, President of ALCIMED
•     Laurence Lafont, VP Industry Sales Google Cloud EMEA
•     Hugues Lavandier, Senior Partner, McKinsey New York
•     Carmen Munoz-Dormoy, Director of EDF's downstream R&D activities
•     Laurent Tardif, Chairman of the Board, PRYSMIAN Cables and Systems France
•     Catherine Langlais, member of the Académie des Technologies, former Deputy R&D Director of SAINT-GOBAIN Recherche
•     Corine Dubruel, President of the CentraleSupélec Alumni Association, VP&Chief Public Affairs Plug Power Europe
•    Jean Luc Barlet, Vice-President of the CentraleSupélec Alumni Association - Group Chief Compliance Officer of MAZARS
•     Philippe Carli, President of the CentraleSupélec Foundation - President of EBRA, CREDIT MUTUEL press division

Representatives of University Professors and equivalents:

• Didier Clouteau
• Sylvie Guessab
• Pascale Le Gall
• Dominique Marcadet

Representatives of other teaching and research categories:

• Marc-Antoine Weisser
• Benoît Valiron
• Jérémy Fix

Representatives of non-teaching staff:

• Erika Jean-Bart
• Célestin Kynyock
• Virginie Martinez
   

Representatives of users:

• Margaux Fallion-Dalmonte
• Ibtissam Hamich
• Etienne Cassel-Dupont
• Jean Prolhac

Composition of the Board of Directors:

• President: Delphine Ernotte Cunci
• Vice president: Sylvie Guessab
• Clerk:
   

Ways and Means Committee

Qualified persnnalities :

• Carmen Munoz
• Christine Benard
• Jean-Claude Barlet
• Valérie Kniazeff

First College Professors:

• Dominique Marcadet
• Sylvie Guessab

Second College Professors:

• Jeremy Fix

Non-teaching staff:

• Erika Jean-Bart
• Marie-Agnès Loiseau

The Scientific Committee:

• Romain Soubeyran, Director
• Olivier Gicquel, Director of Training
• Paul-Henry Cournède, Director of Research
• Christophe Bidan from the Rennes campus
• Claude Marchand, director of the GeePs laboratory
• Bernard Yannou, director of the LGI laboratoryRomain Soubeyran, directeur

Qualified representatives, named by the Dean of the Institution:
 

• Bruno Aïdan, Air Liquide, Chief Data Officer
• Hervé Arribart, GEC, es directeur scientifique de Saint-Gobain
• Patrick Bastard, Groupe Renault, directeur de la recherche
• Brigitte Cardinael, Orange, VP, responsable du domaine de recheche "Software Infrastructure"
• Jean-Paul Chabard, EDF, directeur scientifique
• Eric Deustch, Institut Gustave Roussy, professeur, chef du département d'oncoloradiothérapie
• Valérie Guénon, Safran, directrice des affaires institutionnelles R&D
• Hélène Oriot, Onera, maître de recherche
• Anne Pacros, ESA, Solar Orbiter Mission and Payload Manager
• Henri Souchay, GE Healthcare, Clinical Research Manager for France
• Martine Soyer, CEA Iramis, adjointe au chef Institut Aramis

As elected representatives of the professors:

- First College

• Hervé Gueguen
• Véronique Aubin
• Zeno Toffano

- Second College:

• José Picheral
• Damien Rontani
• Wassila Ouerdani

As elected representatives of the non-teaching staff:

• Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
• Nadège Terny

As elected representatives of the users:

• Hugo Waltzburger
• Fanny Pan

Substitute:

• Matthieu Roux

Also members of of the Scientific Comitee as representatives of partners:

• Etienne Augé : Université Paris-Sud, Professeur de Physique, Vice-président de l’Université Paris-Sud en charge de la Recherche et de l’Innovation.
• Sylvie Boldo : INRIA, Directrice de Recherche, Déléguée Scientifique Adjointe de l’INRIA Saclay- Ile-de-France.
• Laurent Nicolas : CNRS, Directeur de Recherche, Directeur adjoint scientifique à l’institut des Sciences de l’Ingénierie et des Systèmes (INSIS-CNRS).
   

The Board of Studies:
 

• Romain Soubeyran, Director
• Olivier Gicquel, Director of Training
• Didier Dumur, Director of Engineering Studies
• Erick Herbin, Department Director
• Philippe Benabès, Department DirectorRomain Soubeyran

As qualified representatives, named by the Dean of the Institution:
 

• Nathalie Lassau, Institut de Formation Supérieure BioMédicale, directrice
• Fabien Mangeant, Airbus Group Innovation, directeur du département Applied Mathematics and Simulation
• Félix Papier, ESSEC, directeur général adjoint
• Philippe Sajhau, IBM France, vice-président
• Isabelle Demachy, Université Paris-Sud, vice-présidente Transformations Pédagogiques de l'Université Paris-Sud
• Yves Bernard, Université Paris-Sud, directeur de Polytech Paris Sud
• Emilie Poirson, Ecole Centrale Nantes, Professeure et Directrice de la formation ingénieur généraliste
• Véronique Le Courtois, Ecole Centrale Lille, enseignant-chercheur
• Nicolas Gazeres, Dassault Systèmes SE, R&D Biosphère Technology Director

As representatives elected by the First College of Professors:

• Paul-Henry Cournede
• Jean-Louis Gutwiller

Second College:

• Yves Houzelle
• Nabil Sadou

As representative elected by non teaching staff:

• Jean-Daniel Polizzo

As representatives elected by the users:

• Chiara Widua
• Luca Froger
• Molka Ben Marzouk

Substitutes:

• Paul Saurou
• Laure Coquelet
• Matthieu Dominici

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Strategic Orientation Committee

The Strategic Orientation Committee is an advisory committee directly reporting to the Director of the Board of Directors. The committee issues recommendations and analyses relating to the Institution’s strategic development. Its recommendations provide input and assist the Director in his deliberations. The committee is composed of top-level experts from the business world as well as from academia who are committed to an international and long-term-based approach.

Composition: Members are named for a two-year term by the Director in charge of convening and chairing the meetings:

• Christine Bénard, former Director of Research and Scientific Studies at the ENS, former Scientific Director of Michelin

• Sébastien Candel, professor emeritus at CentraleSupélec, president of the Académie des Sciences

• Rémi Carminati, Professor, Director of Research, ESPCI Paris Tech

• Henri de Combles, Partner, McKinsey

• Gérard Creuzet, President of the Institut Photovoltaïque d'Île-de-France, member of the Académie des Technologies

• Philippe Dufourcq, Deputy Director, CentraleSupélec

• Delphine Ernotte Cunci, Chairman of the Board, President of France Télévisions

• Gilles Gleyze, entrepreneur and entrepreneur in the field of professional training

• Etienne Klein, research director at CEA

• Valérie Kniazeff, President of ALCIMED

• Ghita Lahlou, Director of the Ecole Centrale of Casablanca

• Hugues Lavandier, Senior Partner, McKinsey

• Jean-Claude Lehmann, former President of the Academy of Technologies, former Director of Research at Saint Gobain

• Martine Liautaud, President of Liautaud et Cie

• Daniel Rigout, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of CentraleSupélec

• Bernard Salha, Director of Research and Development, EDF

• Martin Sion, President of Safran Electronics & Defense

• Romain Soubeyran, Director of CentraleSupélec

• Laurent Tardif, Chairman of the Board, Prysmian Câbles et Systèmes France

• Pierre Vareille, Director of Bernos Advisors