École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

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École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées


Established	1747
Type	French Grande Ecole, member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology)
Director	Philippe Courtier
Students	1200
Undergraduates	No undergraduate student
Postgraduates	1,000
Doctoral students	150
Location	Paris, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Nickname	Les Ponts
Affiliations	ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Website	www.enpc.fr

The École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) ("National school of Bridges and Roads"), often referred to as les Ponts, is the world's oldest engineering school and remains to this day one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles of engineering.

It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and in Marne-la-Vallée (suburb of Paris). It is among the oldest and most prestigious institutes members of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).

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With traditional core competences in civil engineering, environment, transport, town and regional planning, mechanics, industrial management and logistics, ENPC offers high-level programmes in an extensive range of fields, from applied mathematics to economics and management.

Three major types of programmes are on offer :

Engineering programmes: leading to a 5-year postgraduate engineering degree (accessible, after competitive examinations, by both undergraduate-graduate curriculum and the 2-year master course) or to masters of science
Doctoral programmes: DEAs^{[citation needed]} and Ph.D.s
Professional programmes for postgraduates: Mastères spécialisés (M.S.), MBA.
In conjunction with Temple University-Philadelphia, USA, ENPC is the first leg of the Fox School of Business International MBA, with study in Paris, Philadelphia, and Tokyo.