Combine the best of business and engineering in a very innovative and complete program in data sciences and business analytics, jointly coordinated by CentraleSupélec and ESSEC Business School.

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You are a high-achieving computer science undergraduate or post-graduate student and want to live an intensive digital experience (2 to 6 months) in a stimulating professional and academic environment working on key digital challenges for the major French and European companies : The digital Tech Program is made for you!

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Enjoy an intensive two-week program in Sustainability operated jointly with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) and the Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) and get ECTS!

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Broaden your horizons by spending a semester or a full academic year at CentraleSupélec. You can design your own academic path by choosing courses in English in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Maths, Applied Physics or Industrial Engineering and more.

Location & Campus Life

The CentraleSupélec, Châtenay Campus is located in a southern suburb, just 30 minutes from the Paris city center:

Grande Voie des Vignes
92290 Chatenay-Malabry, France

On campus housing is guaranteed for international students. 
There are more than 1000 students representing 30 nationalities on campus. International students have the possibility of getting involved in a range of student organizations. 

Calendar

Courses

We offer four tracks entirely in English in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Computer Science/Applied Math, Applied Physics and Industrial Engineering. It is also possible to choose courses taught in French to personalize your study program.

The course load at CentraleSupélec is usually 30 ECTS per semester and upon successful completion of the 30 ECTS, the CESI degree (Certificate of Study in Engineering Science) will be awarded. We suggest that students should take a minimum of 24 ECTS per semester.

Incoming international students can design their own academic path.

Please, note that courses are staggered thoughout the semester. Exams take place at the end of each course.

Spring '17

Full Schedule of Courses

The courses are either taught in French (F) or in English (E).
In the following list, by clicking on the name of the course, you will find precise information about it (description, main content, duration, exams schedule).

You can find further information in the Course Catalog.

• Elective course 8 - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - Jan 31 to March 31

  EN1200/1201 Fluid Mechanics (E)
  IS1220 Software engineering (E)
  SE2500 Modeling and analysis of Supply Chains (E)
  PH2813 Advanced Materials and Novel Devices for Information Technologies (E)
  PR1100 Introduction aux Matériaux
  MA2822 Advanced Statistics
  MG1200 Civil Engineering
  IS1310 Graph Theory for Computer Science: Algorithms and Applications
  PR3100 Chemical Engineering & Sustainable Development
  SE2750 Stochastic Modeling and Theory of Queues and their Applications
  WP2100 Sustainable Development and Technologies

• Elective course 9 - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - Feb 1 to March 17 

  EN1500 Nuclear Engineering (E)
  SE2550 Introduction to Purchasing (E)
  IS1240 High Performance Computing for Engineering and Finance (E)
  PH2814 Science-Fiction and Physics (E)
  SE2700 Modeling for Decision Making
  IS1330 Informatique théorique:calculabilité et langages formels
  MA2824 Differential Geometry
  MG2814 Economy and Design of Dams

•   Lab Course - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - Feb 3 to March 18

  PH1910  Physics Lab  (E)
  PR 2940  Chemical & Environmental Engineering Lab  (E)
  EN1920  Aerodynamics & Energy Science Lab  (E)
  IS2950  Electronics Lab  (E)
  MG1960  Civil Engineering Lab
  MG1970  Design of Mechanical Structures Lab
  PR1930  Materials & Corrosion Lab

• Elective course 10 - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - Feb 4 to May 12

  PH2812  Introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics (E)
  MA2814  Introduction to Random Modeling (E)
  PR4300  Cogeneration and Energy Production (E)
  MA2620  Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems
  MG2816  Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
  MG2815 Mise en forme des sols
  SE3200  Law 2

• Elective course 11 - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS  - March 29 to May 31

  EN1800 Numerical Methods in Engineering applications (E)
  PH2500  A Crash Course in Modern Mathematical Physics (E)
  SE2650  Risk Assessment and Management (E)
  IS1250  Prog for mobile devices (E)
  MA2827 Foundations of discrete optimization
  MG2812  Introduction to Acoustics : Industrial and Musical Acoustics
  EN1600   Renewable Energy
  MG1500 Biomécanique

• Elective course 12  - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - March 25 to June 2

  EN1120 Heat Transfer (E)
  MG2817 Applications of the Finite Element Method (E)
  PH2821 Applications of statistical physics to socio-economical complex systems (E)
  SE2800 Production Planning and Scheduling (E)
  MA2500 Signal Processing and Sparse Coding (E)
  IS2210 Opto-électronique
  MA2825 Algebra and cryptology
  IS1350 Mathematical Logic for computer sciences
  PR2100 Traitement de l’eau

• Elective course 13 - 36 hrs - 3 ECTS - May 15 to May 19
  EN2910 Aircraft Design (E)
  MG2818 Introduction to Petroleum Exploration and Production (E)
  IS2960 Electronics Laboratory (E)
  WL2100 Leadership in Project (E)
  WL2200 Ethics and Responsibility in Engineering
  EN2930 Powertrain Design
  MG2920 Sustainable Buildings & Architecture Laboratory
  MG2819 Siège Automobile du Future
  PH2930 Nuclear Physics Laboratory (French Passport required)

Projects

International students will have the possibilty to take part in an Innovation Project. This is an opportunity to work on a project with other students and develop team work skills. The incoming international students will choose a project that interests them upon arrival. 9 ECTS will be awarded upon successful completion.

Languages

International students usually take French and/or English courses.

How to apply

If you wish to apply to CentraleSupélec Semester Abroad Program, you must contact the International Affairs Office of your home institution to be nominated.

 Once you have been nominated by your Home Institution to CentraleSupélec, you will receive email instructions from our office.
 

• International Relations Offices are required to nominate their students wishing to apply for a Student exchange Program on Moveonnet.

  • Deadline for Fall Semester nominations : up to end of March

  • Deadline for Spring Semester nominations : mid-October

• You should then apply online following the email instructions.

  • Deadline for Fall Semester application : mid-April

  • Deadline for Spring Semester application : beginning of November

The international Office of the home institution will be informed of the students' admission by e-mail. If accepted, the student will receive an official letter.

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.

For more information visit https://www.time-association.org/

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.