| Type | Grandes Ecoles |
|---|---|
| Active | 1990–2017 |
| Location | , France |
| Campus | Nantes |
| Affiliations | Institut Mines-Télécom (Mines Télécom Institut of Technology), Groupe des écoles des Mines, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles |
| Website | www |
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TheÉcole des Mines de Nantes (French pronunciation:[ekɔldemindənɑ̃t]), orÉcole nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes (pronounced[ekɔlnɑsjɔnalsypeʁjœʁdemindənɑ̃t]),Mines Nantes, EMN, was a French engineering school (grande école), part of theInstitut Mines-Télécom. The school was based inNantes, in the west of France. On 1 January 2017, it merged withTélécom Bretagne to form theIMT Atlantique.
The school offers 10 majors:
The EMN has also signed agreements withAudencia Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies. The school depend on the French minister ofindustry.
Although it offers a fairly typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach to the technical and business skills it teaches. Manifestations of this philosophy include programs such as the "Apprentissage par l'action" ("Learning through action"), a case-based approach to sciences that places students in front of industry-inspired puzzles and develops students' analytic skills and intellectual curiosity. The EMN is also a partner of "La main à la pâte" ("Hands in the dough"), an innovative initiative to teach sciences in primary courses supported byGeorges Charpak, who won theNobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
EMN offers four Master of Science programs fully taught in English:
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