Intergroupe des Écoles Centrale

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The Intergroupe des Écoles Centrale is the association of the following school of engineering :

• Ecole Centrale Paris
• Ecole Centrale de Lyon
• Ecole Centrale de Lille
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes
• Ecole Centrale de Marseille
• École Centrale de Pékin, recently founded in Beijing

[edit] Goal

Its goal was originally is to promote the education of the following type of engineers :

• multidisciplinary engineers, with a very strong backgrounds in a big number of scientific fields
• a specialization during the final year
• close contact with the industry and international partners during the engineer formation
• educators should have close links with academic and private research
• only one engineer diploma in each school : the specialization is not so strong as in a number of other institutions

It is now more generally to educate students to all the Sciences for the Engineer and as a consequence also to do research in these fields.

[edit] Admission

Different types of studies are possible. One can do the Centralien program, a Mastère Spécialisé, a Master of Science or PhD doctoral studies.

The entrance in the Centralien program is possible after two years of university-level studies. At this point, there is different ways to enter in an Ecole Centrale:

• a selective exam with numerus clausus for the majority of the french students
• a selection by the TIME network'sprogram or by an academic jury for the others