EPF École d’Ingénieurs

Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

This was posted in Universities in France

The EPF École d’Ingénieurs is developing a research policy which aims to instill in the heart of model EPF École d’Ingénieurs, a genuine “culture research.” This is to meet the requirements of the modernization of French higher education face international competition, to hold a position required by our choice of contracting with the State and the evaluation of the AERES to accompany the renovation of the repository of general engineering skills EPF and to provide our students with new career opportunities.

EPF École d’Ingénieurs (literally in French “great schools”) 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. In contrast, French public universities have a legal obligation to accept all candidates of the region who hold a baccalauréat. Usually candidates for the national exams have completed two years of dedicated preparatory classes, although this is not always the case

EPF École d’Ingénieurs like some of the Lille Catholic University (ISEN, HEI, ICAM) have partnerships with CPGE in order to have their students follow the same program (Mathématiques supérieures) as that of the CPGE. Teachers come from the CPGE for the school’s students. This prevents the students from specializing prematurely, so their program of study can still be a generalist engineer training. It also allow the student to follow a less stressfull and more open-minded formation.