École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
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Director | Nathalie Carrasco |
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Postgraduates | 1,360[1] |
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Location | , France |
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The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (also ENS Paris-Saclay or Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay), formerly ENS Cachan, is a grande école and a constituent member of Paris-Saclay University. It was established in 1892. It is located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department near Paris, Île-de-France, France.
ENS Paris-Saclay is one of the most prestigious and selective French
In 2014, ENS Paris-Saclay became a founding member of the Paris-Saclay University, an initiative to integrate and combine resources from a number of different grandes écoles, public universities, and research institutions.
The school moved in 2019 to a new campus located in the
Overview
École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay is a Grande École, a French institution of
The main mission of ENS Paris-Saclay is to train world-class academics, but it is also a starting point for public administrative or private executive careers. It recruits mostly from the very competitive "classes préparatoires" (see also
Students follow the standard university curriculum (
There are 17 departments : the scientific departments of Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Fundamental Physics, Chemistry; the engineering departments of Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering; Economics and Management, Social Sciences, Languages, Design.
ENS Paris-Saclay cooperates with many foreign universities, for example in student exchange programs. One of them is
.Admission
The admission to the ENS Paris-Saclay as normalien is made through a highly competitive entrance examination, and requires at least two years of preparation after high school in
Curriculum
Though normaliens follow the standard university curriculum, they have the opportunity to pursue their studies in other
Notable alumni
- Philippe Aghion (French economist)
- Alain Aspect (French physicist)
- Julie Battilana (Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School)
- Laurent Batsch (French economist-President of Paris Dauphine University)
- Elie Bursztein (French computer scientist)
- Dassault Systemes)
- Mérouane Debbah (Director Huawei France R&D)
- Erwan Dianteill (French cultural anthropologist)
- Aawatif Hayar (Moroccan Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and the Family)
- Michel Lallement (French sociologist)
- Marie-Noëlle Lienemann (French politician)
- Nancy Peña (French comics author; children's literature illustrator)
- Éloïc Peyrache (French economist)
- Olivier Rubel (Business school professor)
- Marc Yor (French mathematician)
- Gabriel Zucman (French economist)
See also
- École Normale Supérieure (Ulm)
- École Normale supérieure de Lyon
- Grandes Écoles
- Classes préparatoires
References
- ^ ENS Cachan Key figures
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