École des Mines de Paris
| École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris | |
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| Motto | Théorie et Pratique |
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Motto in English
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Theory and Practice |
| Type | Grande école |
| Established | 1783 |
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Paris, France Coordinates: 48°50′42″N 2°20′21″E / 48.844952°N 2.339193°E |
| Campus | Paris, Fontainebleau, Évry, Sophia Antipolis |
| Affiliations | PSL*, Institut Mines-Télécom (Mines Télécom Institut of Technology), ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), Groupe des Écoles des mines, Conférence des Grandes écoles |
| Website | http://www.mines-paristech.eu |
MINES ParisTech (officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech), also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines Paris or simply les Mines), created in 1783 by King Louis XVI, is a most prominent and prestigious French engineering schools in France (see Grandes écoles) and a member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology) and PSL* (Paris Sciences et Lettres).
MINES ParisTech is reputed for the outstanding performance of its research centers and the quality of its international partnerships with other prestigious universities in the world, which include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS), Novosibirsk State University, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Tokyo Tech.
The École des Mines de Paris also publishes a world university ranking based on the number of alumni holding the post of CEO in one of the 500 largest companies in the world: the Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities.
Created by decree of the French King's Counsel on March 19, 1783, the first school of Mines was located in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, in Paris.
The school disappeared at the beginning of the French Revolution but was re-established by decree of the Committee of Public Safety in 1794, the 13th Messidor Year II. It moved to Savoie, after a decree of the consuls the 23rd Pluviôse Year X (1802).
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