École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay
| ENS Paris-Saclay | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1912 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Cachan , France |
| Rector | Pierre-Paul Zalio |
| Students | 1800 |
| Annual budget | 103 M € (2010) |
| Website | http://www.ens-cachan.fr/ |
The École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris-Saclay) - formerly École normal supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan) - is an interdisciplinary French Grande École that belongs to the network of the Écoles normales supérieures and is a founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay . It is one of the most prestigious scientific universities in France.
history
The ENS Paris-Saclay was founded in 1912 as the École normal de l'Enseignement technique , renamed in 1932 as the École normal supérieure de l'Enseignement technique (ENSET) and since 1985 it has been called the École normal supérieure de Cachan .
Since 1956, the university has been located on its current campus in Cachan in the south of Paris . The humanities sections went to the ENS in Fontenay and Saint-Cloud in 1976 and faculties of mathematics, chemistry, economics and social sciences were established in Cachan in the 1980s. The profile of the university is becoming increasingly clear: applied natural sciences, technology and economics.
In 1994, the ENS Cachan branch was founded in Ker Lann near Rennes in Brittany, which has been independent as ENS Rennes since 2013 . In 2014 the university founded the University of Paris-Saclay with 8 other Grandes Écoles and 2 universities . The move to the new campus in the south of Paris is planned for 2018. At the beginning of the course in 2016, the name was changed to École normal supérieure de Paris-Saclay .
Admission
As usual at Grandes écoles, admission to the ENS Cachan does not take place immediately after the Abitur ( Baccalauréat ). Rather, those interested have to complete two more school years in so-called preparatory classes ( Classe préparatoire ), which prepare for the extremely selective selection process ( Concours ) of the ENS Cachan. Every year, 360 students are selected and accepted from around 6,000 applicants. With admission to the ENS Cachan, the students designated as normaliens receive a civil servant-like status and salary. However, many of the students start out in the private sector.
Education
The university is the largest of the four French Écoles normales supérieures and offers courses and preparation for agrégation in the fields of natural sciences, technology and economics. Many of the study programs offered are collaborations with other prestigious French universities such as B. the École Polytechnique , HEC Paris , ENSAE ParisTech and University of Paris-South .
As a research-intensive university, it also maintains a large number of international partnerships. There are close collaborations with the University of Oxford , EPFL , HU Berlin , TU Munich , RWTH Aachen , University of Erlangen , University of Tokyo and University of Padua .
research
As at the other Écoles normales supérieures, there are numerous research groups at the ENS Cachan, such as 12 laboratories belonging to the CNRS and covering the entire spectrum of courses. It is also affiliated with 3 institutes that focus on basic research, engineering and social sciences.
Well-known graduates
(ENS Cachan graduates. The year of admission in brackets.)
- Alain Aspect (1965), physicist
- Bernard Charlès
- Marie-Noëlle Lienemann (1972), politician
- Bernard Menez (1944), actor and singer
- Gabriel Zucman (2005), economist
- Bernard Charlès (CEO of Dassault Systèmes)
- Frédéric Teulon
- Laurent Batsch (President of the Paris-Dauphine University)
- Philippe Aghion (economist, Harvard University)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intégrer l'ENS Cachan ( Memento from October 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://universite-paris-saclay.fr/fr
- ↑ Accords et partenariats ( Memento from December 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
ENS (Paris) | ENS Paris-Saclay | ENS Lyon | ENS Rennes | Former: ENS LSH | ENSJF
