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Higher Education Centres in France

41 higher education centres with a profile on SpainExchange. Open a profile for programmes, fees and admission details.

  • Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies

    Paris 13e, France In an official register

    Arts et Métiers (École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers, ENSAM) is a French engineering Grande École and technology institution, headquartered at 151 boulevard de l'Hôpital in Paris and present on eight campuses across France, including Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Angers…

  • Centrale Lille Institut

    Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France In an official register

    Centrale Lille Institut is a public engineering institution based on the Cité Scientifique campus in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, near Lille, in northern France. Its history goes back to the École des Arts industriels et des mines, opened in 1854. Since 2019-2020 it has grouped four…

  • Centrale Lyon

    Écully, France In an official register

    École Centrale de Lyon (Centrale Lyon) is a French grande école of engineering with campuses in Lyon-Écully and Saint-Étienne, where its in-house school Centrale Lyon ENISE is based. It belongs to the Groupe des Écoles Centrale and has 330 researchers and teacher-researchers…

  • Centrale Méditerranée

    Marseille 13e, France In an official register

    Centrale Méditerranée is a French grande école of engineering with campuses in Marseille (Technopôle Château-Gombert) and Nice. It belongs to the Groupe des Écoles Centrale, together with CentraleSupélec, Centrale Lille, Centrale Lyon and Centrale Nantes, which trains…

  • Conservatoire national des arts et métiers

    Paris 3e, France In an official register

    The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) is a French public higher education and research institution (grand établissement) founded in 1794, with its headquarters at 292 rue Saint-Martin in Paris. It specialises in higher professional education throughout life…

  • École des hautes études en sciences sociales

    Paris 6e, France In an official register

    The École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is an international institution for fundamental research in the social sciences, founded in 1975. It brings together researchers, students and staff and offers training through research, based on seminars, fieldwork…

  • École normale supérieure de Lyon

    Lyon, France In an official register

    The École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon) is a higher-education institution in Lyon that trains students through and for research. It covers all disciplines except law and medicine, from the sciences to the humanities, social sciences and arts. Its main site is at 15…

  • ESIEE Paris

    Noisy-le-Grand, France In an official register

    ESIEE Paris is an engineering school at the Cité Descartes in Marne-la-Vallée (Noisy-le-Grand and Champs-sur-Marne), less than 15 minutes from the Porte de Bercy in Paris, on a campus of 17,000 students. It is one of the schools of Université Gustave Eiffel and specialises in…

  • IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School

    Paris, France In an official register

    The IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School is the university management school associated with the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which awards its students' degrees. Founded in 1956, it celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2026. Since May 2026 it has been based on a new…

  • Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

    Paris 13e, France In an official register

    The Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) is a public institution of higher education and research in Paris, created in 1795. It teaches more than 100 languages and civilisations of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania…

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées Centre Val de Loire

    Bourges, France In an official register

    INSA Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL) is a French public institute that trains engineers and landscape architects, with campuses in Blois and Bourges and six research laboratories. It follows the INSA model of five-year courses with gradual specialisation, holds the EUR-ACE…

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon

    Villeurbanne, France In an official register

    INSA Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon) is an engineering school on the LyonTech-La Doua campus in Villeurbanne, next to Lyon, with a second campus in Oyonnax. International mobility is mandatory for all its students; 26% of students are international…

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rouen Normandie

    Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France In an official register

    The Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie) is a public engineering school in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, on the Madrillet campus near Rouen in Normandy, with a branch in Le Havre. It is part of the INSA Group and awards the INSA…

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées de Strasbourg

    Strasbourg, France In an official register

    INSA Strasbourg (Institut national des sciences appliquées de Strasbourg) is a public higher education institution in Strasbourg, France, combining an engineering school and a school of architecture. Its origins go back to 1875, and it joined the INSA Group in 2003. Its…

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse

    Toulouse, France In an official register

    The Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (INSA Toulouse) is an engineering school and research institute on a 20-hectare campus in the Rangueil scientific complex, a 15-minute metro ride from central Toulouse. It has 3,300 students and more than 600…

  • Institut national universitaire Jean-François Champollion

    Albi, France In an official register

    The Institut National Universitaire Jean-François Champollion (INU Champollion) is a public higher-education institution and a founding member of the University of Toulouse. It has three campuses in the Occitanie region of southern France, in Albi, Castres and Rodez, and…

  • Sciences Po

    Paris 7e, France In an official register

    Sciences Po is an international research university in the humanities and social sciences, founded in 1872. Its statutes combine principles of public and private law within the French public higher education system. It has seven campuses in France: Dijon, Le Havre, Menton…

  • Sciences Po Aix

    Aix-en-Provence, France In an official register

    Sciences Po Aix is an institute of political studies (Institut d'études politiques) in Aix-en-Provence, in Provence in the south of France. It describes itself as a grande école that trains managers for the public and private sectors. It grew out of a centre for political and…

  • Sciences Po Bordeaux

    Pessac, France In an official register

    Sciences Po Bordeaux (Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux) is one of the ten French Instituts d’études politiques. It was founded in 1948 and is located on the university campus in Pessac, in the Bordeaux area, at 11 allée Ausone. The school describes itself as a public…

  • Sciences Po Lyon

    Lyon, France In an official register

    Sciences Po Lyon is a public higher-education institution founded in 1948 to train managers for the public and private sectors. It has about 2,000 students, including 300 international students, and since 2017 has taught on two campuses, in Lyon and Saint-Étienne. The Lyon…

  • Sciences Po Toulouse

    Toulouse, France In an official register

    Sciences Po Toulouse is one of France's ten Instituts d’Études Politiques (IEP), founded in 1948. It is a public higher-education institution with more than 1,700 students and trainees a year, a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles and of the Réseau ScPo, and a…

  • Toulouse INP

    Toulouse, France In an official register

    Toulouse INP is a public higher education institution in Toulouse, France, created in 1969. It brings together two integrated preparatory programmes, three engineering schools and one institute: Toulouse INP-AgroToulouse (agriculture, environment and life sciences), Toulouse…