IP Paris : An institute of excellence

Télécom SudParis belongs to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris). IP Paris brings together five prestigious graduate schools with one ambition: create a world-class institute committed to cutting-edge research and excellence in training. The five founding graduate schools embody experience, history and roots, positioning IP Paris as a leading educational institution, both in France and internationally.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is a public higher education and research institution that is formed by five distinguished French engineering schools: École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis. Paired toghether the five shcools aim to share theire long expertise and knowledge with two major goals on mind :

• Developing training programs of excellence.
• Offering to researchers a suitable environment to produce cutting-edge research.

These activities are carried out as students and researchers take on the issues of the major transitions in digital technology, energy, industry and education.

IP Paris is also positioning itself as a world-clas Institute, where each school is leading the march in it's domaine, with notable discoveries in the industrual and technological fields for the last two centuries. In fact the five schools count among their graduates several Nobel Prizes as well as renowned personalities from political, economic and research world.

A multidisciplinary approach and high standard programs

With its five schools regroupemment, IP Paris form one of a kind Institut in the French educational and reaseach landscape. Multidisciplinary and ambitious, IP Paris aims to create synergies between different fields and schools, going from business, economics to engineering, thus promoting the inclusion of new technologies and ideas into more traditional engineering spheres.

IP Paris has developed a large program of different degrees, going from bachelor degree, masters, Masters of Science to PhD programs. With its selective recruitment process IP Paris has one of the best employment  ratio in various domains such as politics, economics or research. IP Paris high standard programs allow future graduates to constantly adapt to a very fast changing job market, offering them the necessary skills to be always matching today and future requirements.

Ambitious research and PhD programs

IP Paris ambition is to double the number of PhD students in its 30  laboratories, offering them a classic three-year PhD programs in a variety of disciplinary fields, but developing a new five-year program specific to high-level students wishing to focus their studies on research at the end of their Bachelor's degree.

The research is focused on five priority areas: energy and climate change, security, digital, technology and health. IP Paris also aims at strengthening social sciences research which have become key element to guarantee an innovation with a strong economic and societal impact.