École des hautes études en sciences sociales

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Other names	EHESS
Former names	École pratique des hautes études, VI Section (1947–1975), École libre des hautes études (1941-1946)
Type	grande école (informal) Grand établissement EPCSCP
Established	January 23, 1975
Budget	€60 million
President	Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
Academic staff	830
Administrative staff	450
Students	3000
Undergraduates	0
Location	Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon, France
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL University)
Website	EHESS.fr

The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; also known as EHESS) is a French grande école (higher education establishment outside the framework of the public university system) specialised in the social sciences, and a constituent college of PSL Research University.

Originally a department of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, an institution created in 1868 with the purpose of training academic researchers, the EHESS became an independent institution in 1975. Today its research covers the fields of Economics and Finance (through the Paris School of Economics), Cognitive Sciences, Humanities, Political Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Development studies, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Musicology, and Philosophy of social science.

The institution is heavily focused on research and some of its faculty (known as "directeurs d'études") have achieved international recognition in different areas: from economics as Thomas Piketty and Nobel Prize Jean Tirole, historians such as Fernand Braudel or Lucien Febvre, anthropologists such as Claude Levi-Strauss and Marcel Mauss, sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Edgar Morin and Alain Touraine, philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, and interdisciplinary scholars such as Marcel Mauss and Raymon Aron.
As a higher education institution under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Education, the EHESS trains academic researchers and professors specialised in the Social Sciences. It delivers postgraduate degrees such as the Master of research, the Doctorate and a school diploma. Some of them are awarded conjointly by institutions such as the École Normale Supérieure, the École Polytechnique, the École pratique des hautes études, and some of the universities of Paris.