PhD Programs
In PhD research, the School’s policy is to foster access to excellence through Doctoral Schools (ED) affiliated with the laboratories.
In this context, an École nationale des ponts et chaussées PhD candidate (ENPC candidate) is registered with one of the four doctoral schools.
As of September 1, 2025, the administrative transfer of the doctoral program to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is effective
Doctoral student in 1st, 2nd, 3rd & more year, attached to the following doctoral schools in 2024/2025
- CEREA / CIRED / HM&Co / LEESU / LHSV / LIGM IMAGINE & NAVIER: transfer to IP Paris 626 Doctoral School
- CERMICS: transfer to MH 574 Doctoral School
- LATTS and LVMT: re-registration with VTT 528 Doctoral School
- PjSE : re-registration with 465 Économie Panthéon Sorbonne Doctoral School
Online procedure via Adum, by logging into your personal space and clicking on “I wish to request my re-enrollment in X year.”
New doctoral students (2025/2026)
- Registration with the following Doctoral Schools : 465 Économie Panthéon Sorbonne, VTT 528, MH 574 and IP Paris 626, depending on the affiliated research units and specialties
Online procedure via the creation of an account on Adum.
For doctoral students whose thesis defense is scheduled before 12/21/2025
- No transfer or administrative re-registration
- No new tuition and CVEC payments
The defense procedure is initiated by logging into your personal account and filling in the required fields.
Doctoral Schools
- The “Sciences, Engineering and Environment” Doctoral School (SIE) is a multidisciplinary institution primarily covering physics, mechanics, chemistry, geosciences, environment sciences, and life sciences. It encompasses both fundamental and applied research, theoretical, digital, or experimental, with the primary objective of tackling major societal issues such as energy, in particular renewables, new materials, innovative structures, and questions relating to environmental quality. It is the doctoral school to which the CEREA, HM&CO, LEESU, LHSV and Navier laboratories are attached.
- The “City, Transportation, Territories” (VTT) Doctoral School is a significant component of the Université Paris-Est Community’s “City, Engineering, Environment” unit and draws on this scientific dynamic to offer PhD candidates thesis topics that are both scientifically innovative and at the interface with the professional world. This Doctoral School is unusual in its positioning, since it is the only one that explicitly makes the theme of the city, transportation and territory its central concern. It is the doctoral school to which the LEESU, LATTS, LVMT, and CIRED labs are attached.
- The “Mathematics and ICT” (MSTIC) doctoral school primarily covers two major scientific fields: mathematics at its purest (analysis, algebra, geometry…) through to applied mathematics (probability, statistics, scientific calculus…), and information and communication science and technology (signal and image processing, IT, automation, diagnostics…) in which there is a significant overlap with the field of mathematics. It is the doctoral school to which the CERMICS and LIGM laboratories are attached.
- The “Organizations, Markets, Institutions” (OMI) doctoral school embraces the research themes associated with economics and management, law, political science, sociology, and philosophy. It develops the synergy between these different topics around two main focal areas, market operations and the dynamics of people and organizations. It is the doctoral school to which the LATTS laboratory is attached.
PhD researchers at the LMD mixed research unit work within the “Ile de France Environmental Sciences” and the Ecole polytechnique Doctoral Schools.