École normale supérieure – PSL (ENS Paris) campus

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Diplôme de l'ENS (DENS) en lettres at École normale supérieure – PSL (ENS Paris)

École normale supérieure – PSL (ENS Paris), France

Programme overview

The Diplôme de l'ENS in humanities is a tutored research-based programme in which students devote at least one third of the ECTS to a main discipline (that of their research master) and one third outside it.

Faculty: Lettres et sciences humaines  |  Department: Arts, economics, geography and territories, history, literatures and language, philosophy, antiquity sciences, social sciences (including law pathway)  |  Duration: 3 to 4 years at the ENS  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Students validate at least three of four opening experiences (collective research, outside the walls, linguistic or international, transdisciplinary), language courses (at least one semester per year) and may add a minor of at least 48 ECTS.

Career pathways

About 130 humanities normaliens graduate each year and more than 70% of them begin a doctorate.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Entry through the CPGE competitive examinations (A/L and B/L), the normalien étudiant competition (L3 level, with research project, CV and motivation letter) or the international selection.

Intake: September

Duration: 3 to 4 years at the ENS

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