Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. It is divided into the three stages of primary education, secondary education, and higher education. The main age that a child starts school in France is age two and since 2022, education is obligatory from the age of three. Two year olds do not start primary school, they start preschool. Then, by the age of six, a child in France starts primary school and soon moves onto higher and higher grade levels until they graduate.
The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées is a French engineering university.
Université TÉLUQ is a public French-language distance learning university, part of the Université du Québec system. Originally founded in 1972 as the Telé-université, Université du Québec commission to develop distance education courses, Université TÉLUQ is now a full university which offers programs in undergraduate and graduate studies. It is the only French-language university education institution in North America to offer all of its courses and programs at all three university cycles remotely and continuously. Though it is based in Quebec City, Quebec, about two thirds of its professors work from its Montreal offices.
Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is a French graduate business school.
Paris-Panthéon-Assas University or Assas University, commonly known as Assas or Paris 2, is a university in Paris, often described as the top law school of France. It is considered as the direct inheritor of the Faculty of Law of Paris, the second-oldest faculty of Law in the world, founded in the 12th century.
The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes also known as Sciences Po Rennes, is a French university established in 1991 in Rennes, the regional capital of Brittany. The institution is one of 10 political science institutes in France and is considered one of the grandes écoles.
Sciences Po Aix, also referred to as Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) d'Aix-en-Provence, is a Grande École of political studies located in Aix-en-Provence, in the South of France. It is associated with Aix-Marseille University and is part of a network of ten Institut d'études politiques, known as IEP.
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay University.
ICN Business School is a Grande Ecole of management triple accredited AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. Associated with the University of Lorraine, the school is authorized to issue a diploma targeted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research for its programs. Founded in 1905 in Nancy, the school now has four campuses: two in France and two in Germany. Association law of 1901 non-profit, ICN Business School is labeled EESPIG by the French state.
The INSEEC School of Business and Economics is a French private business school grande école and a member of the French Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). The conférence is the French equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the United Kingdom, the C9 League (九校联盟) in China, or the Imperial Universities in Japan.
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) is an institution of higher education located in the Cocody section of Abidjan and the largest in Côte d'Ivoire. With over 50,000 students, the UFHB has 13 faculties and several research centers providing diplomas from two-year undergraduate to professional academic, medical, legal, and specialist degrees. From 1964 to 1996, it remained the main campus of the national University of Abidjan system. It is state owned and operated by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In 2008, it had 53,700 students.
Paris Sciences et Lettres University is a public research university based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constituent schools, with the oldest founded in 1530. PSL is located in central Paris, with its main sites in the Latin Quarter, at the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève campus, at the Jourdan campus, at Porte Dauphine, and at Carré Richelieu.
The Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE), French for "Conference of Grandes Écoles", is a French national institution, created in 1973. It mainly acts as an association of Grandes Écoles, providing representation, research and accreditation. A Grande école is a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Russel Group in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.
NEOMA Business School is a French business and management school founded in 2013, following the merger of Reims Management School and Rouen Business School.
A Collège de droit in France is a selective training inside a faculty of law for top students selected among the French student body. Students from these programs are much more likely to enter prestigious master's degrees or law firms.
ESC Clermont Business School is a business school located in France, in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. Established in 1919, the school of management is a Grande Ecole that is recognized by The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The business school holds AACSB accreditation since 2005 and its Bachelor programme received the EPAS accreditation in 2018. The school obtained the AMBA accreditation in 2020. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Strate School of Design is a French private institution for technical education founded in 1993. Its main campus is in Sèvres south-west of Paris. It is dedicated to the teaching of industrial design, 3D modeling and design thinking. The school is recognized by the French state and its design degree is certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.
Magali Vaissière is the Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency (ESA), a post she has held since 2008. She is responsible for the agency's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications System (ARTES).
The Pierre Mendès-France centre of University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, which hosts undergraduate lectures, is regularly blocked by students in order to protest reforms of the government. Lectures are then cancelled, up to several months.
trouvermonmaster.gouv.fr is a Web portal that lists all national master's degrees in France, as well as the procedures for applying for them, the number of places available, the selection criteria and the timetable. The site is not designed to collect applications, which are sent directly to the institutions.
