École nationale des ponts et chaussées Building the worlds of tomorrow
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Join a prestigious school where you can develop your scientific, technical, and interpersonal skills and knowledge to tackle today's environmental and social challenges!

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Engineering program - International candidate

Several options are available to you depending on the type of agreement between your institution and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

Master's programs

Energy transition, mobility, sustainable construction, environmental economics...: benefit from high-level training and a degree offering numerous career opportunities by enrolling in one of the school's many master's programs.
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Doctorate

The School offers doctoral programs notably through the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which it is a member.
International students can apply for doctoral programs.

Advanced Masters - Mastère Spécialisé®

Our advanced Masters - Mastère Spécialisé® are available as part of a career change or career development, in order to develop expertise and acquire dual skills.
Admission procedures are detailed on the pages for each program.
International students can apply.

Innovation through design - d.school Paris

d.school Paris trains and supports innovation leaders through learning and practicing user-centered design.

Student Refugee Program

On the initiative of the student association Dévelop’Ponts, the School has set up a Refugee Student Program, which welcomes and supports students who have previously studied science and are currently asylum seekers or refugees in France.

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Engineering, Masters, Advanced Masters, doctorate programs 

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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...
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Encouraging entrepreneurship

The School encourages the spirit of enterprise by offering an entrepreneur option in the engineering program, a structure of support and experimentation (business incubator, FabLab), and by fostering real-world entrepreneurial initiative as a route to...
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École des Ponts Business School

Since 1987, École des Ponts Business School has been helping executives transform themselves and lead business transformation. In business to make a better world The School has never wanted to be a business school like any other. Its founder, Celia Russo...
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Advanced Master in Railway and Urban Transport System Engineering

Background The rapid growth in the railway sector has prompted constructors and operators to turn to the grandes Ecoles to create a high-level educational programme aimed at engineers, project managers or executives likely to work in the railway or urban...
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Advanced Master in the Engineering of Large Energy Structures

Context At a time when many engineers with skills in the construction of big energy infrastructures (nuclear power stations, power plants, dams, LNG tanks, wind turbines…) are going into retirement and when French industrial and corporate expertise holds...
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Advanced Master In Civil Engineering and Ecodesign

Background This 15-month course offers engineers, whether new graduates or experienced practitioners, a multidisciplinary, in-depth grounding in civil engineering in general, and advanced structural calculus in particular. Benefits A professorial body of...
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Executive Master BIM - Building Information Modeling

BIM, Integrated Design and Life Cycles of Buildings and Infrastructures: At a time when new European directives are being adopted to encourage, or even impose, the use of BIM for public works contracts, it would seem that developing the use of digital...
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Living in a changing world: robustness vs. performance - Olivier Hamant

Each year, first-year engineering students are invited to participate in a series of lectures given by experts and renowned figures from the scientific and academic world. These lectures enable them to continually broaden their scientific and cultural...
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Admissions

Engineering degree, Masters degree, PhD, Advanced Masters (Mastère Spécialisé®): what program should you choose? What are the admission conditions, and how do you register or reregister?
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1st Symposium PhD EELISA

Take part in the 1st EELISA PhD Symposium – Budapest, 28–29 November 2025 Are you a PhD student at an EELISA institution? Don't miss the opportunity to join the 1st EELISA PhD Symposium: a chance to discuss, showcase and collaborate on your research. You...
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Deep learning and beyond: the new challenges of artificial intelligence - Yann Le Cun

Each year, first-year engineering students are invited to participate in a series of lectures given by experts and renowned figures from the scientific and academic world. These lectures enable them to continually broaden their scientific and cultural...
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