École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
| Type | EPCSCP |
|---|---|
| Established | 1892 |
| Director | Pierre-Paul Zalio |
| Postgraduates | 1,360 |
| 260 | |
| Location | Cachan, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France |
| Nickname | ENS Paris-Saclay, Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay |
| Affiliations | UniverSud Paris, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, ASTech |
| Website | www.ens-paris-saclay.fr |
The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (also ENS Paris-Saclay or Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay) used to be ENS Cachan. It is located in Cachan within the Val-de-Marne department near Paris, in the Île-de-France region of France.
It is one of the most prestigious and selective French Grandes Écoles. Like all the other Grandes écoles, this higher education institution is not included in the mainstream framework of the French public universities. It belongs to the informal network of French écoles normales supérieures, along with the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the ENS de Lyon and the ENS de Rennes .
In 2014 it became a founding member of the confederal University of Paris-Saclay.
Its main mission is to train world-class academics, but it is also a starting point for public administrative or private executive careers. It recruits mostly from the very competitive "classes préparatoires" (see also Grande École). Students of the ENS Paris-Saclay who passed the entrance exam are civil servants and are known as "normaliens". Normaliens are paid a monthly salary (around 1300 €) by the French government for their studies and have to work for a French public administration for six years when their four-year curriculum at the ENS is completed. ENS Paris-Saclay also recruits some students from the university; the latter are not required to work for a French public administration but are not paid either.
Students of the ENS Paris-Saclay follow the standard university curriculum (Licence, Master, and most of the time PhD). They are encouraged -though it is not mandatory- to take then the Agrégation competitive examination.
There are 17 departments : Mathematics, Computer Science, Fundamental Physics, Chemistry, Biology for the scientific department, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering for the engineering departments, Economics and Management, Social Sciences, Languages, Design.
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