École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes
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| 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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[edit] General information
It is located on two distinct campuses:
- "La Chantrerie" in the city of Nantes
- "Gavy" in the city of Saint-Nazaire
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]
[edit] References
- ^ "2007: The engineering Grandes écoles ranking" (in French). Challenges.fr. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
