Strategy

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A mission: building the worlds of tomorrow. Tackling major societal challenges has been essential to the School’s history and continues to guide it. So building a future in a world that is becoming aware that resources are limited and that human activities affect the environment at planetary scale, is a formidable challenge that the young generations graduating from the School will need to take on.

An aspiration: to be a leading international player

In a fast changing environment of globalized education and research, with growing international competition, École nationale des ponts et chaussées maintains its aspiration to be a leading international player in higher education and research.

Working on big societal challenges:

City and mobility systems
The industries of the future
Economics, practices, and society
Management of risks, resources, and environments

With influence in three major academic domains:

Civil engineering, Environment, Transportation, Cities
Economics, Finance, Industrial Engineering
Mathematics, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Sciences

Four major priorities

The quest for interdisciplinary and partnership-based excellence

Through an enhanced scientific positioning, the School is developing research focused on innovation and knowledge transfer in support of business competitiveness.

Renewed educational programs

The engineering education program has been reformed, new Masters programs and Executive Masters have been created in response to the new societal priorities and to the needs of companies.
Three primary orientations drive the development of education at École nationale des ponts et chaussées: lifelong learning, training in innovation and entrepreneurship, a graduate school program for education through research.

A strong international presence and influence

International mobility and language learning are at the heart of the engineering program, with 72 partner universities in 34 countries on 4 continents, and 9 languages taught at the School.
The School’s teaching programs are open to the best students from partner universities, who now account for 25% of engineering graduates.
Finally, the School is a member of prestigious networks (T.I.M.E., IDEA League), which confirms the international reputation of its educational programs.

Enhanced special relationships with businesses

The School has close relations with more than 400 companies and organizations. This web of rich, long-term relationships feeds into both teaching and research, fostering innovation and professional adaptability in our graduates.