Ecole Centrale de Nantes School of Engineering

• Year of foundation: 1919
• Location: Nantes, France
• Age of students: from 18 years.
• Number of students: 2410
• Language of instruction: French
• Type of education: public autonomous educational institution.

Centrale Nantes is a graduate school of engineering offering excellent opportunities for students. Centrale Nantes, founded in 1919, trains versatile engineers of high scientific and technical level, endowed with a strong managerial culture, able to study scientific subjects in a global context, combining environmental and social problems.

Centrale Nantes is a public institution of scientific, cultural, professional nature, which has the status of a school outside the universities. The university has autonomy in the educational, scientific, administrative, financial fields.

Centrale Nantes offers students an equipped campus off the Atlantic coast.

Centrale Nantes maintains ongoing partnerships with CROUS, some private residences. The Department of International Relations helps to book accommodation for international students.

In most cases, student residences or homeowners will ask for a guarantor of the lease in France. The guarantor is legally liable for rent delays. The university cooperates with VISALE (acts as a free guarantor for students under 31 years of age, whose monthly rent does not exceed 600 € / month), GARANTME (open to French and foreign students, provides a reduction in tuition fees for Students of Centrale Nantes).

Students, staff, teachers have access to a canteen on campus.

Centrale Nantes offers more than 110 clubs and associations that hold a variety of events all year round: robot club, image club, poker, cooking, Zik, ski week, regional and national events - Créadanse, Jet d'@ncre competition, Challenge Nemo, international week.

1. A member of the Groupe des Ecoles Centrales (Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris), Centrale Nantes provides first-class education for selected students, welcoming more than 2,000 students to its campus in Nantes.
2. The school's cooperation with the best universities in the world allows graduates to build an international career. The institution enjoys the advantages of one of the most popular networks, continues to expand the scope of activities, develops contacts with India, Japan, Brazil, Russia.
3. Centrale Nantes relies on numerous strong industrial and institutional partnerships to deploy academic, applied research at European and global level. Research and education have always been close to each other: the scientific modules taught are part of the research of teachers who conduct their research in the laboratories of the school.
4. The school maintains contacts with the world of economics. Focused on research, entrepreneurial spirit, concrete implementation, studying at Centrale Nantes confronts students with the major challenges of the twenty-first century, combining theory and practical skills.
5. Centrale Nantes for 20 years creates the main tools for innovation: unique research platforms (oceanic basins, Rapid Manufacturing), an incubator for creating projects. Since an engineer must develop products for society, each engineering student gets acquainted with the work of the company, develops the ability to create, develop, manage innovative projects. The Centrale Audencia incubator is a valuable tool for those who wish to start their own business. The school supports each of its students in their personal, professional projects. That's why every course is different, the support that every student receives is aimed at personal growth and professional development.
6. In 2021, Centrale Nantes took 5th place in the Ranking of Best School Experience, published by Speak & Act (category of engineering, IT schools).

Centrale Nantes provides students with:

• 45 classrooms
• 6 lecture amphitheaters
• 13 computer rooms (almost 180 PCs with full software)
• 1 media library
• 6 laboratories.

Sports and cultural facilities:

• Gym
• Multisport/Dojo Hall
• Squash courts
• Piano room.

Facilities for students:

• Student House
• Student dormitories.

On the basis of the School there is a digital portal for students - Onboard with schedules, notes, presence management, distance learning resources. The Moodle platform and its collaborative features are available to teachers and target students (resource repository, teams, forum, online assessments).

Students also have access to conference rooms, educational innovations, video box equipped with video projectors, cameras, interactive panel for preparing presentations, projects.

Médiathèque de Centrale Nantes provides documentary resources:

• 8000 books in the public domain
• More than 1000 theses
• About 50 subscription magazines online
• E-books
• Scientific databases.

The school is registered with the Eduroam mobility service for the RENATER community. This service provides secure wireless Internet access for employees of higher education institutions, research institutes while driving.

The Eduspot wireless network simplifies access to the wireless network for employees, students of French higher education institutions, research institutions.

It has installed a VPN gateway (virtual private network) that allows you to securely connect to Centrale Nantes' internal network from anywhere.

• The start date of the semester is September 2.
• Integration Weekend (WEI) – from 10 to 12 September
• The fall semester ends On January 31
• Spring semester begins Feb. 1
• Classes close on June 30.

Vacation:

• All Saints' Day – 25 to 29
• Christmas – from December 20 to December 31
• Winter – February 14-18
• Spring – April 18-22.

Admission to the bachelor's degree

• Competitive examination
• Bac+ certificate or equivalent
• GPA conversion (60%)
• Math grades (20%)
• English language skills: TOEFL: 60-120, IELTS: 5.0-9.0.

Requirements for applicants to engineering specialties

It is advisable to pass DUT in the following specialties:

• Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
• Industrial design and maintenance
• Quality, production logistics and organization
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Physical measurements.

It is advisable to conduct BTS in the following specialties:

• Industrial product design
• Shipbuilding
• Mechanical and industrial automation
• Industrialization of mechanical products
• Industrial service.

Requirements for admission to the magistracy

The course accepts international students with a bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Technology) or equivalent in a field related to science, technology.

French and European students with a license or equivalent degree must complete their studies by the end of August in order to enroll in the Centrale Nantes Master's program (September). Candidates must have a good command of mathematics, fluent in written and spoken English. A candidate whose mother tongue is not English must pass a recognized international English language test.

Requirements for knowledge of English:

• TOEFL – IBT 80 or ITP 550, paper test 60
• Cambridge B2 First Test – 173 or higher
• Cambridge C1 Advanced Test – 160 or higher
• IELTS – 6.5 or higher
• TOEIC – from 800.

Centrale Nantes Elite scholarships – up to €3000 for two years – are awarded to students of non-European descent accepted for the first year of one of centrale Nantes' master's programmes.

Centrale Nantes develops special scholarship programs with industrial companies such as TOTAL.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision