Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise

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For other uses of the three-letter acronym IIE, see IIE.

The Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise (IIE) is one of the French public Grandes écoles of engineering. It is specialised in Computer Science.

The IIE was created by the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1968.

It is located in Evry, near Paris (France).

[edit] Academic studies

The admission to Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise is made through a selective entrance examination, and requires at least two years of preparation (in Classes Préparatoires). Each year, around 130~150 new students are admitted.

Courses last 3 years, and the final year can be done in a foreign university, such as the University of Manchester (UK), Oxford University (UK), Aston University (UK), University of Sherbrooke (Canada). Some of these collaborations will enable the student to obtain both the IIE degree and the Master's degree of the host university.

The studies are divided into three major components:

Computer Science: Programming, Databases, Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, Networks, Hardware, Robotics, Security, ...
Mathematics: Operational Research, Formal Methods, Probabilities, ...
Economics & Management.

Some Humanities topics are added: Languages (students have to successfully pass the TOEIC before the end of their studies), Epistemology, ...

A considerable amount of time (11 months during the whole studies) is spent working in companies or research laboratories, corresponding to 3 internships: 3 months at the end of the 1st and 2nd year, and 5 months at the end of the 3rd year.