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 19th 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.
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.
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
Academics institutionals partners
École Centrale Group
The five Écoles Centrales located in France (CentraleSupélec, École Centrale Lille, École Centrale Lyon, École Centrale Marseille and École Centrale Nantes), form the École Centrale Group, an association governed by Law 1901 and chaired by CentraleSupélec, in which each school is a founding member. They share a vision of training generalized engineers who are internationally minded and trained to a high scientific level. Each conserving their distinct identity, autonomy and degree programs, they are committed to developing their enriching complementarities and synergies, as well as their combined potential for companies.
ESSEC Business School
Initiated in 2009 with the creation of the joint double degree, CentraleSupélec and ESSEC Business School forged an excellence alliance in 2014 to train the engineer-manager profiles of the future. Through this strategic bilateral alliance, the two institutions work to develop joint programs, share their international networks (especially their locations abroad), and to bring their ICTE resource centers closer together.
Paris-Sud University is particularly renowned for the quality of its fundamental research (mathematics and physics) and also in the fields of health sciences, law and sports science. Since its creation, Paris-Sud University scientists have been awarded two Nobel prizes and four Fields medals for research.
CentraleSupélec and Paris-Sud University offer a double degree, as well as a Biomedical specialization University Diploma to 2nd-year student-engineers, managed by the French Institute for Biomedical Higher Education (IFSBM) of Paris-Sud University.
Scientific research and training are fundamental missions for ENS Paris-Saclay. Beyond career perspectives associated with higher education, the school also trains executives for public bodies and large companies. Over four years, the school prepares students for careers in higher education and research, and in public and private sector research and development departments that require significant scientific experience.
The degree awarded validates the equivalent of a Baccalaureate +5 years of higher education according to the international standard; this equates to a Master’s degree. ENS Paris-Saclay co-manages the CentraleSupélec LPQM laboratory.
T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) is the leading European network for the training bicultural and bilingual engineers. Created in 1989, it enables its 50 members (TUM, Politecnico di Milano, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, etc.) to offer an Engineering graduate diploma (Master’s degree level); the members are major technological universities mainly located in Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK, etc.) as well as in Brazil, Australia, China and Japan.
The 5+6 double degree exchange program was created in 1995 between the École Centrale Group (lien vers partie dédiée GEC) and six Chinese universities. As a result, there are currently nearly 900 double-degree graduates.
For more than 13 years, the 5+6 program established between the École Centrale Group (lien vers partie groupe École Centrale) and six Brazilian universities has trained double-degree engineers. More than 700 Brazilian students and 150 French students have taken advantage of this program. Partner Brazilian universities of the five Écoles Centrales are:
On the strength of their longstanding cooperation, Politecnico di Milano, CentraleSupélec, Technische Universität Berlin and University College London decided to create Alliance4Tech, a strategic alliance to develop together new approaches and programs of excellence that are both attractive and innovative, on a European scale and which meet the needs of companies in world markets. This association is developing joint actions in teaching and research and forging company relationships.
One of the first actions concerns à la carte mobility in the field of industrial engineering, but other fields will follow, including entrepreneurship, professional mobility and ongoing training.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA) and its international campus Georgia Tech-Lorraine, located in the Metz Technology Park, is an innovative teaching and research institution that offers training programs (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD) in engineering sciences disciplines, including Electrical Engineering, IT Engineering and Mechanics. CentraleSupélec and Georgia Tech have a strategic agreement in place covering research, teaching, innovation, entrepreneurship and academic mobility.
The Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) is a non-profit association of universities and large European institutions, founded in 1990. Its objectives are to guarantee high quality teaching in the field of Engineering Sciences, as well as to improve the links between partner institutions for research and ongoing training.
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
Supélec Foundation
Missions and values
The Supélec Foundation, recognized for its public utility and labeled as a Research Foundation, had capital of €17 million in 2015, including €11.6 million of long-term provision (adjustable for inflation). Budgets and programming are established on the basis of capital income and supplemented by donations in the form of capital flows, according to donors’ intentions.
The Supélec Foundation has always positioned itself atypically, ever since its creation in 2003, with a capital model to help the school in its long-term development in France and internationally. These two dimensions that have guided the Foundation are today integrated within the CentraleSupélec strategy.
Capitalized donations help the school each year by supporting the innovative projects of our instructor-researchers, doctoral students and students.
THE MISSION of the Supélec Foundation is to contribute to the worldwide reputation of CentraleSupélec and partners’ scientific research and higher education.
THE VALUES of the Supélec Foundation are focused on four axes:
shared responsibility among all actors involved in our projects to help leading talents to emerge in society to confront the major challenges of the future;
transparency, ethics, integrity and rigor in the way in which we collect and manage funds;
international cooperation to multiply our network, exchange and share, beyond borders;
lasting commitment, as all the projects and relationships we develop with our students, former students, teaching body, researchers, industrial partners and all other actors are, for us, investments in the future.
The founders
ABB, EDF, FIEEC, RTE, Schlumberger, Schneider Electric and “Les Supélec”, now called EPSCP CentraleSupélec.
A few words from some beneficiaries
Xiang Liu - (GeePS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Laboratory of Paris and L2S, Signals Laboratory/DRE) - Gif-sur-Yvette campus
“Thanks to the Supélec Foundation, I am completing my program in France and my research on electromagnetic system modeling within the school’s teams. Thank you for this opportunity, which is an important step in my career as an engineer and as a future doctoral graduate.”
Supélec Foundation supports the school’s talents
Damien Rontani’s experience
Damien was one of the very first beneficiaries of the Supélec Foundation who, in 2006, defended his thesis, completed over three years (internationally co-directed between Supélec and Georgia Tech). After that, Damien was awarded the Supélec Foundation Publication Prize in 2011, as a Supélec doctoral graduate having achieved the best publication results from the beginning of his thesis right up until the end of the year in which he defended it.
Publication Prize Awards, given during the 2011Prestige Evening, hosted by the Supélec Foundation
He completed a post-doctoral degree in the Department of Physics of Duke University (USA) between 2011 and 2013. Today, he is a senior lecturer within the OPTEL research team and received an IBM Faculty Award in 2015. The IBM Faculty Award rewards researchers of physics applied to IT processing; his subject explored “Cognitive Computing” and focused on the development and characterization of a neuro-inspired time-space optical calculator.
A few figures
€17 million in donations
€1.4 million donated in support of CentraleSupélec in 2015
More than 50 beneficiaries supported through funding, including 20 thesis completions, four sabbaticals, four visiting professors, five chairs, 12 instructor-researcher positions created, student scholarships, five publication awards, and more.
La Fondation Supélec remercie chaleureusement l’ensemble de ses donateurs.
CentraleSupélec Foundation - Alumni
The CentraleSupelec Foundation was born from the merger between the Centrale Paris Foundation and the Supelec Foundation.
Our mission is to support CentraleSupélec's strategic projects and to offer our students the best conditions to reach their full potential, with the vision of extending the influence of French engineering education throughout the world.
-Capital of €22 million in 2019, including €15 million in non-consumable assets and €7 million in consumable assets.
Nearly 7,000 individual donors and more than a hundred corporate sponsors.
7 chairs managed by the Foundation, funded by our corporate partners
180 students have received financial support from the Foundation: €405,000 in allocated financial aid and €145,000 in loan guarantees.
25 M € collected for the construction of the new Saclay campus.
10% of the new CentraleSupelec campus was funded by Alumni donations which were raised during the Saclay 2017 patronage campaign : 5,000 graduates of the School were involved and they raised €25 million.
CentraleSupélec research is at the heart of major technological and societal challenges
Covering all of the engineering and system sciences. Our research sustains and guarantees the teaching excellence of our faculty members, and consistently brings new knowledge and innovative answers to the major technological challenges, and societal values of the 21st century.
To do so, the school focuses on seven major themes:
The CEA is a public research agency, focusing on four fields: Defense and Security, Nuclear Energy (fission and fusion), Technological Research for Industry and Fundamental Research (matter and life sciences).
The National Center for Scientific Research is a multidisciplinary public research agency. It undertakes research in all scientific, technological and societal fields, ranging from Mathematics, Physics, Science and IT and Communication Technologies, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Planetary and Universe Sciences, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Human and Social Sciences, and Environment and Engineering Sciences.
The French National Institute for Research in Computer Sciences is a scientific and technological public research agency. It promotes “scientific excellence applied to technological transfer and society”. Inria has 2,700 employees hand-picked from the best universities all over the world, who together are tackling the challenges of information sciences and mathematics.
The French National Institute of Health and Medical Research is a scientific and technological public research agency specialized in medical research, under the dual authority of the Ministry for Research and the Ministry of Health.
The French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture is a public research agency which, for over 30 years, has worked on the major issues concerning responsible agriculture and sustainable urban planning, water management and associated risks, drought, floods, the study of complex ecosystems and biodiversity in their interrelations with human activities.
ONERA is the French National Aeronautics, Space and Defense Research Lab. A multidisciplinary agency with unrivalled resources for experimentation in Europe, it places its skills at the service of programming agencies, institutions and industrial actors.
Located in a town called Pomacle, the European Center of Biotechnology and Bioeconomy in the Champagne-Ardennes region brings together four private and public research teams via its innovation platform: the CentraleSupélec Biotechnology Center, the Agro-Bio-Industry Center of AgroParisTech, the NEOMA Business School Bioeconomy Center and a future center supported by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
School of Entrepreneurship at CentraleSupélec has developed a unique environment: companies closely associated with the whole curriculum, dedicated training courses and modules, a digital pathway, an Open Innovation Institute of which we are a founding member, as well as a (link to site) technology incubator and a Fab Lab, which have already accompanied more than 70 startups.
CentraleSupélec offers numerous training courses dedicated to entrepreneurship as part of its engineering curriculum as well as its specialised masters. At the same time, the school has developed, in parallel, an ecosystem around training for entrepreneurship.
Our developments
The Digital Track / Paris Digital Lab
In early 2015, CentraleSupélec launched a Digital Track, the Digital Tech Year, an additional year in the engineering curriculum, intended for full-time technological immersion at Paris Digital Lab In the service of business innovation. Its objective is to offer the students who are most motivated by information technologies an innovative experience working with businesses, centred on innovation. Integrated within the Innovation Factory it hosts 25 high potential students selected from CentraleSupélec.
The Open Innovation Institute
CentraleSupélec is a founding member of the Open Innovation Institute. It aims to build lasting, constructive and balanced relationships between key accounts and start-ups.
The activity of the Institute is divided into 3 parts: creation and running of business accelerators, training courses dedicated to open innovation, conducting studies and research.
The Incubateur CentraleSupélec: a technology incubator
CCreated in 2001, the CentraleSupélec incubator welcomes and supports innovative and ambitious projects, at a very early stage, carried out either by graduates of CentraleSupélec or others within the network. The incubator now specializes in supporting technological projects focused exclusively on one of the seven major societal challenges: Health and Biotechnology, Nanosciences, Transport - Aeronautics, Business Systems, Communication Systems, Environment - Risks and Energy.
Over 13 years, the CentraleSupélec Incubator has seen:
541 jobs created, as well as hundreds of internships,
business survival rate of 79% (including projects that were halted during incubation)
business survival rate of 88% among companies that came out of the incubator.
1 MOOC dedicated to corporate finance and incubation
CentraleSupélec has been committed to teaching innovation since 2013, and was the first in France to offer a MOOC dedicated to corporate finance and incubation, taught by Jean-François Galloüin, Managing Director of Paris & Co and Professor at CentraleSupélec. His course saw than 11,000 participants.
The majority of the students of CentraleSupélec are destined for high-level positions in corporations, who have in turn always been associated with the life of the school as trainers in their own right and as partners of the Research Center: CentraleSupélec has 13 industrial research chairs, 140 companies involved in educational programs, including more than 20 SMEs / ETIs.
Seeking partnership proposals
CentraleSupélec offers a catalog of partnerships enabling corporations to accompany the curriculum and to benefit from considerable visibility with the students. At the heart of this partnership is the sponsorship of one or more third-year options / majors in the engineering programs. Companies regularly participate in the form of courses, conferences, case studies or cooperative projects.
Depending on their level of partnership, companies can go even further by accompanying students, for example, from the first year onwards, or by participating in numerous events and meetings such as the Business Discovery Evenings, Professional Round Tables, Careers Forums and so on. Proposal of subjects related to education: stakes, innovation, CIS + internships.
In 2015/2016, CentraleSupélec was ranked by QS 35th world for the employability of its graduates and 7th worldwide in reputation employer.
Partner companies of the school.
CentraleSupélec boasts 140 partner companies: large international groups and SMBs alike.
To become one of the best scientific institutions in the world, CentraleSupélec has developed its presence in the major countries of the future in order to meet the growing demand of highly qualified engineering companies:
École Centrale Beijing
In 2005, convinced by the excellence of the École Centrale education, broad-based and open towards the world and business, École Centrale Paris, with the École Centrale Group and Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) created École Centrale Beijing.
CentraleSupélec thus became the first French Engineering Grande École to export its excellence and teaching model abroad.
École Centrale Beijing offers a six-year program to train high-level generalized, versatile and trilingual engineers. After intensive language training, students spend two years completing Preparatory Classes before entering the three remaining years of the Engineering program, recognized by the French Commission for Engineering degrees (http://www.cti-commission.fr/).
École Centrale Beijing has signed privileged partnership agreements within the business world, a lever for it to develop economic links between France and China by providing non-specialized and bicultural engineers for employment.
Beyond initial training and the close relationships with industry, the school has a strong culture of research. It collaborates closely with the Beihang University on specific research projects.
Today, École Centrale Beijing boasts more than 700 students and 300 graduates.
Mahindra École Centrale
In 2014, a new École Centrale opened in India: Mahindra École Centrale (MEC).
Mahindra École Centrale is a private teaching institution created by CentraleSupélec with Mahindra Educational Institutes (Mahindra Group) in partnership with the Jawaharlal Technological University. The school is located on the Bahadurpally campus of Tech Mahindra in Hyderabad.
The Engineering program leads to the award of an Indian State diploma. This diploma is also recognized as a French Engineering degree.
The two first years are modeled on the two first years of Preparatory Class in French Grandes Écoles. Introductory lessons in engineering are progressively integrated with management and creativity lessons. The two final years enable students to specialize (in Mechanical Engineering, IT and Logistics Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering).
The teaching is inspired by CentraleSupélec teaching, with lessons adopting a systemic approach, activities dedicated to developing skills including leadership, creativity, teamwork and a real openness to the world of business and the world via student exchanges, internships and participation of international professionals and instructors.
In September 2016 Mahindra École Centrale welcomed its 3rd class, now boasting nearly 700 students across its three class years.
In 2015, CentraleSupélec strengthened its international presence by opening a third international school: École Centrale Casablanca.
Developed on the Écoles Centrales model, the École Centrale Casablanca three-year post-Preparatory Class Engineering program leads to the award of a Moroccan state diploma.
The first year is spent completing the joint series of modules of the program. Students are encouraged to go abroad for a semester to study with a partner school or university, or work in a company within the network.
For those who wish to explore the international dimension further, or gain a long-term professional experience, the school offers the opportunity to complete a placement year at the end of the 2nd year.
Over the course of the 3rd year, students gain sectorial specialization and discover careers. The program ends with an eight-month internship, and an end-of-studies project that supports their evolution towards the world of work.
Alongside its engineering program, École Centrale Casablanca also offers a Specialized Master’s (SM) degree in leadership and innovative projects, aiming to train high-level professionals with the skills to manage complex projects.
In September 2016, the school welcomed 80 students to its second class year. École Centrale Casablanca will inaugurate its new Bouskoura campus, located on the outskirts of Casablanca, beginning of 2017.
École Centrale Casablanca is the first non-specialized school of engineers in Morocco, with innovative teaching that aims to train high-level scientific engineers with an interdisciplinary culture and very open to the world. École Centrale Casablanca positions itself as a university hub on a Pan-African dimension, entirely integrated within the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the French-speaking region of West Africa, providing access to the international network of the other Écoles Centrales and the best international scientific research, with the explicit aim of training the elite directors of the African continent of tomorrow.
