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| Type | Grande école Grand établissement |
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| Established | 1829(École Centrale Paris) 1894(Supélec) 2015 : merger of both schools |
Parent institution | Paris-Saclay University |
| Budget | € 100 million |
| President | Romain Soubeyran |
Academic staff | 852 |
| Postgraduates | 5,350 (1,000 Engineers/year) |
| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Université Paris-Saclay,TIME,CESAER |
| Website | www.centralesupelec.fr |
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TheCentraleSupélec (CS) is agrande école inGif-sur-Yvette,France. It is one of the constituent members ofParis-Saclay University. It was established on 1 January 2015, as a result of merger between two prestigiousgrandes écoles,École Centrale Paris andSupélec.[1] CentraleSupélec is considered to be among the best engineering schools in France and Europe, with an admission rate of 8% in 2019.[2][3]
It is a key founding member of theParis-Saclay University, theTIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network and also theCESAER association of European engineering schools.
École Centrale Paris was founded in 1829 on a private initiative byAlphonse Lavallée, who financed its creation and became its first president, and three distinguished scientists:Eugène Peclet,Jean-Baptiste Dumas, andThéodore Olivier. The founding vision was to promote the development of 'industrial science', or practical applications of recent major scientific discoveries, and to educate multidisciplinary engineers to lead the emerging industrial sector. The institution was offered to the Frenchstate in 1857.
Initially located in the Hôtel de Juigné (now Hôtel Salé and home to theMusée Picasso), it was transferred to rue Montgolfier in 1884. It stayed there until 1969, when it relocated toChâtenay-Malabry, near theParc de Sceaux. It moved to its current location in 2015.
Supélec was founded in 1894 byEleuthère Mascart, a prominent academic who was elected as a Perpetual Member and Secretary of theAcadémie des Sciences and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society. He was also a professor at theCollège de France, and recipient of the Bordin Prize in 1866 as well as the Grand prix de l'Académie des sciences in 1874.Supélec was created in order to educate engineers for the then booming electrical industry.
Supélec was originally based in Rue de Staël, 15th district of Paris. It was then relocated toMalakoff close to Porte de Vanves, and Gif-sur-Yvette in 1975, where the main campus is currently located. A second campus was established inRennes in 1972 and a third inMetz in 1985.
Since December 2008, a strategic alliance was announced between the two schools, known today through the joint name of CentraleSupélec.Hervé Biausser became the director in 2013, 1 September, while keeping the directorship ofCentrale Paris.CentraleSupélec now has three campuses in France: Gif-sur-Yvette, Metz and Rennes.
Since 2008,École Centrale Paris andSupélec have participated in the creation of the campus of theParis-Saclay research cluster. TheParis-Saclay University is a French research university, which aims to become the top university of continental Europe in theARWU rankings.
Since October 2023, the school has been a partner ofIPSA for double degrees inaerospace.[4]
TheParis-Saclay University was ranked 14th in the world in the 2020Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranking. In subject rankings, it was placed first in the world forMathematics and 9th in the world forPhysics (1st in Europe), as well as receiving a top 25 place forMedicine andAgriculture.[5]
The majority of students admitted to the engineer's degree program are selected among candidates from Frenchpreparatory classes, which is usually a two to three-year post-secondary program with a focus on certain subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, and Industrial Sciences. CentraleSupélec offers 142 places in the Mathematics and Physics program (MP), 88 places in the Physics and Chemistry program (PC), 93 places in the Physics and Engineering Sciences program (PSI), 10 places in the Physics and Technology program (PT), and 10 places in the Technology and Industrial Sciences program (TSI). The acceptance rate is 8% for MP students, 6% for PC students and 7% for PSI students.[6] The school also recruits top students from overseas partner universities as well as some graduates of French public universities to join the engineer's degree program.
Before 2018, students at CentraleSupélec were admitted to either the Centralien or Supélec engineer's degree programs (but not both), and consequently students enrolled before this year receive the academic degree bearing the name of their respective engineer program upon graduation.[7] On the other hand, all engineering students admitted in 2018 and onward are placed in a 'unified' engineer program and graduate with the same academic degree
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| ARWU World[8] | 14 (2020) |
CentraleSupélec is considered to be among the best engineering schools of France, some ranking it second just below Polytechnique.[9] According to several salary surveys, graduates from both the Ecole Centrale and Supelec Engineering Programs are among the highest-paid in France.[10] As part ofParis-Saclay University, it has been ranked 14th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020.[11]
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