ELECTRICAL SCIENCE SCHOOL : SUPÉLEC

Established in 1894 by the emerging electrical industry to meet its needs, Supélec has become, in the course of various scientific and technological advances, the main engineering school for information science and energy, encompassing information technology, telecommunications, electronics, signal processing, control engineering, electrotechnology and electrical engineering. In international terms, it is comparable with the most prestigious electrical engineering and computer science departments of major American and European universities.

Supélec is under the twofold supervision of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of State for Industry, from which it receives grant support under a four-year contract within the framework of an agreement signed jointly by both ministries.

Supélec aims to train top-level science and technology engineers able to take on a wide range of responsibilities in business. This training covers a number of aspects: a broad scientific and technological education; knowledge of business and working in business; in-depth knowledge and know-how in one of the School's fields of expertise; a spirit of enterprise and international experience. One student in three currently takes a degree jointly with a foreign university and over one graduate in five comes from abroad.

With its 270 members of staff, including 120 teacher-cum-researchers distributed between its three campuses of Gif-sur-Yvette, Metz and Rennes, the School awards degrees to 360 engineers every year. In accordance with the decisions taken by the Interministerial Commission for the Information Society on 10 July 2000, it is taking steps to increase its admissions to 440 engineers each year. Foreign students can enter Supélec in the first or second year depending on the agreements on joint degrees and international exchanges signed with their home universities.

ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE D'ÉLECTRICITÉ : SUPÉLEC