ESPCI ParisTech

Ever since it was founded, ESPCI ParisTech has been gaining in prestige and status. Evolving from a municipal school established to train industrial production managers, it has achieved the status of a major institute of higher education in science and engineering.

• The Ingénieur degree awarded in France may be unfamiliar in other countries, where the international standard is the Doctor of Science degree. In offering a four-year curriculum that combines theory and practice, ESPCI ParisTech naturally prepares graduates to pursue doctoral studies leading to a PhD.
• 11 Research Masters degrees are conferred jointly by ESPCI ParisTech and partner institutions (UPMC, ENS,…), in the areas of physics and materials sciences, and chemistry, respectively.
• The doctoral programs in the ESPCI ParisTech research laboratories are intended to prepare PhDs for a carreer either in industrial innovation and R&D, or in research and/or academics.

Research at ESPCI ParisTech holds a unique position in the French landscape: it is performed at the fundamental level, aspires to excellence in major scientific areas, while maintaining close ties with industry. Such scheme invariably generates inventions of practical significance on a regular basis. Understanding, discovering and inventing are thus the drivers of ESPCI’s scientific enterprise, within the academic and industry realms alike.In conjunction with its education mission, the School hosts 9 research laboratories, all of them being endorsed and jointly supported by CNRS.

The quality of education at ESPCI ParisTech prepares engineering graduates for careers in every major industry. Within months of graduation, the overwhelming majority (over 90 percent) of students are in employment, with an average annual starting salary (excluding PhDs) of over €40,000. The School’s pluridisciplinary focus is particularly in demand, as industry must change to meet changes in energy resources and achieve major technological breakthroughs.