École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes

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École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes

Established: January 2000
Type: Grande école
Director: Jean-Michel SIWAK
Staff: 165 (2007)
Students: 1,250 (2007)
Location: Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France
Campus: multiple campuses
Former names: IRESTE, ISITEM & ESA IGELEC
Affiliations: University of Nantes, Polytech group, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Website: Official website in English


École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes (also known as Polytech'Nantes) is a French Grande École — a graduate school of engineering — which provides curricula and run research programmes in a variety of scientific and technological fields:

  • electrical engineering
  • electronic systems and computer engineering
  • computer science
  • thermal sciences
  • material sciences.

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It is located on two distinct campuses:


The school was created in January 2000 through the fusion of three existing engineering schools: ESA-IGELEC, IRESTE, and ISITEM.

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Polytech'Nantes is a department of the University of Nantes and a member of the Polytech group which is a network of 11 graduate engineering schools within France's leading science universities located in Marseille, Nantes, Montpellier, Nice, Grenoble, Paris, Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Tours and Lille.

A recent report has ranked Polytech'Nantes in 77th position among 140 French Grandes écoles with respect to the professional integration of its graduates.[1]

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