École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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Main entrance of the Ens-Lyon

The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENSL, ENS-Lyon or Normale Sup' Lyon) is an elite grande école located in Lyon, France, in the district of Gerland. Similar in status to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, it trains researchers and teachers in the scientific fields.

Teaching subjects include:

pure and applied mathematics, computer science
physics and chemistry
life and earth sciences.

[edit] History

This university was raised from the scientific part of two universities, ENS of Saint-Cloud (built in 1882) and Fontenay-aux-Roses (1880), created by Jules Ferry. They were allowed respectively to men and women. In 1987, the Saint-Cloud university was moved to Lyon, and restricted to scientific topics. The Fontenay-aux-Roses followed in 2002 and became the École normale supérieure lettres et sciences humaines, specialized in languages, social science, and literature.