Partially funded

Fondation CentraleSupélec Bourses de vie and Loan Guarantees for Engineering and MS Students

CentraleSupélec, France

Scholarship overview

The Fondation CentraleSupélec supports engineering students and Specialised Master (MS) students, French and international, who face financial difficulty. It states that every deserving student should be able to join CentraleSupélec whatever their resources or country of origin.

Each year the Fondation awards living grants (bourses de vie) to first-year engineering students, loan guarantees (cautionnements de prêts) to second- and third-year engineering students and MS students, laptop loans and tailored emergency help. In 2025, 347 students received support, with a target of 500 a year.

Award Information

  • Bourses de vie: first-year engineering students with difficulty paying tuition and/or daily costs on campus (housing, food, supplies), awarded on resources and reviewed by a committee.
  • Loan guarantees: second-year and third-year engineering students and MS students with the same difficulties, or who wish to continue studies abroad (semester 8 or double degree).
  • Open to French and international students.
  • Bourses de vie: about EUR 5,000 on average for first-year engineering students.
  • Loan guarantees (cautionnement de prêt) for later years and MS students.
  • Laptop loans for students unable to buy one or facing a breakdown.
  • Case-by-case help for students suddenly facing hardship.

Three committees are held each year, in October, January and May.

  1. Collect an application file from the Fondation office (VI.101, Eiffel building).
  2. Return the completed file within the set deadline.
  3. Appear before the committee, made up of members of the School, the Fondation and the Residence.

Contact

Nadège Alves, 01 75 31 65 42, [email protected]

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How selection works

Files are examined by a committee on resources.

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