École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

The École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) ("National school of Bridges and Roads"), often referred to as les Ponts, is one of the French Grandes Écoles of engineering.

It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and in Marne-la-Vallée (suburb of Paris).

With traditional core competences in civil engineering, environment, transport, town and regional planning, mechanics, industrial management and logistics, ENPC offers high-level programmes in an extensive range of fields, from applied mathematics to economics and management.

Three major types of programmes are on offer :

• Engineering programmes: leading to a 5-year postgraduate engineering degree (accessible, after competitive examinations, by both undergraduate-graduate curriculum and the 2-year master course) or to masters of science
• Doctoral programmes: DEAs and Ph.D.s
• Professional programmes for postgraduates: Mastères spécialisés (M.S.), MBA.

ENPC is also an application school of École Polytechnique, and provides education for the Corps of Bridges and Roads.

Alumni include:

• Augustin Louis Cauchy
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel
• Marie François Sadi Carnot
• Prince Souphanouvong

Past and present faculty include:

• Étienne-Louis Boullée

See also

• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris

External link

• Official site