University in France
Bruz, Bretagne, France
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ENSAI (École nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information) is a graduate engineering school and grande école in statistics and data science, located on the Ker Lann campus in Bruz, just outside Rennes in Brittany. It trains data scientists for the private and public sectors, with a curriculum built on statistical modelling, computer science (machine learning) and economics. It is attached to the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance and has administrative ties to INSEE, the national statistics institute.
ENSAI and its sister school ENSAE Paris form the Groupe des écoles nationales d'économie et statistique (GENES), and ENSAI is an associate member of the University of Rennes. It is a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles and its engineering degree is accredited by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur (CTI) at master's level.
Programmes. The school offers:
Research. Most ENSAI faculty belong to CREST, the Centre de recherche en économie et statistique, a CNRS joint research unit supervised by GENES and the École polytechnique.
Student life. The Ker Lann campus has seven residences, a CROUS university restaurant, sports facilities and the school library. The student union (Bureau des Élèves, Abracadata) runs clubs and events, and student associations include ENSAI Junior Consultant and the ENSAI Business Forum.
International students. International students make up over 20% of the student body from over 20 countries, and the school states 50 international exchange partnerships. ENSAI holds the three-star Bienvenue en France label from Campus France. ENSAI graduates around 100 data scientists and nearly 50 official statisticians annually.
Engineer Statistician programme: 2,650 EUR per year; international students not meeting the EU/EEA/Swiss and equivalent residency conditions pay 4,150 EUR. Students holding an ENSAI bursary do not pay tuition fees. Master for Smart Data Science: 4,000 EUR for EU/EEA/Swiss nationals and equivalent categories, 6,000 EUR for others. Master admissions carry no financial aid except for students admitted through double-degree partnerships.
All students pay the national student and campus life contribution (CVEC): about 100 EUR for engineering students and about 105 EUR for Master for Smart Data Science students. Student health insurance is free in France. Non-French speakers in the Smart Data master pay about 650 EUR for the three-week intensive French summer programme at the University of Rennes 2.
Need-based aid for engineering students is managed by the Crous de Rennes under Ministry rules; students apply annually through the online social file (DSE), and CROUS status also eases access to student housing. Not eligible: Mastère Spécialisé and Smart Data master students, Erasmus students, students with EEA tax residence under two years, non-EEA nationals with tax residence outside the EEA (unless their institution has an agreement with ENSAI), and gap-year students. Students from African schools with a GENES agreement are eligible for the internal grant system and are contacted directly by ENSAI.
Grants for international study are given to students already receiving a grant, subject to academic results.
The Smart Data Science master has a special France Excellence Eiffel scholarship procedure (applications 15 October to 15 November 2026).
Financial aid contact: [email protected], +33 (0)2 99 05 33 33. Official financial aid page
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View scholarships for ENSAI →ENSAI does not recruit directly after secondary school; applicants must have completed at least two years of higher education. There is no Parcoursup first-year entry.
Students are admitted by competitive exam (concours) or by transfer (admission sur titres). Concours routes: Mathematics (MP, MPI, PC, PSI via CCINP), Economics and Social Sciences B/L (inter-ENS written exams shared with ENSAE Paris, orals at ENSAI), Economics and Management D2 (as ENS Paris-Saclay D2 with specific coefficients and an added mathematics oral). Transfer is open to holders of a Bac+3 or first-year master (Bac+4) in MIASHS, applied mathematics, economics, MIAGE or equivalent foreign fields, and to BUT/DUT Statistics and Business Intelligence or Computer Science graduates; admission is to the first or second year depending on background. Partner-school students (ENSAE Dakar, ENSEA Abidjan, ISSEA Yaounde, INSEA Rabat, ESSAI Tunis) are selected on their records.
Open to EU nationals through competitive exams (MP/MPI/PC/PSI, khâgne B/L, Cachan D2) or the INSEE internal exam, reserved for civil servants and employees of the public service. Students receive a monthly salary of 1,550 EUR.
Open to all nationalities with at least 4 years of higher education (240 ECTS, a four-year bachelor's or first year of a master's) and a strong background in statistics, mathematics and computer science. Selection is on degrees, academic results and skills, followed by an online interview in English. Non-native English speakers must show CEFR B2 English (Cambridge, CLES, Duolingo English Test, IELTS, Linguaskill, TOEIC, TOEFL iBT). Applications are online only: Eiffel Excellence procedure 15 October to 15 November 2026; first wave 15 December 2026 to 7 February 2027; second wave 8 February to 31 March 2027; third wave, if places remain, 1 April to 31 May 2027. An application fee is paid by bank transfer. Intensive French courses (Université d'été) are recommended in August.
Open to candidates with at least 240 ECTS or equivalent in quantitative fields. Master admissions are on titles only.
Open to candidates with 300 ECTS in applied mathematics, statistics, mathematical finance or econometrics, engineering or management graduates with substantial mathematics, or 240 ECTS with 3 years of professional experience.
PhDs are awarded in applied mathematics through the MATISSE doctoral school, in which ENSAI is co-accredited; ENSAI is also a partner of the EDGE doctoral school (economics and management).
Ker Lann campus, Bruz (Rennes). ENSAI's single site is a wooded 165-hectare campus in Bruz shared with other higher-education institutions, training centres and about 55 businesses; nearly 6,000 students study on the campus. Address: 51 Rue Blaise Pascal, 35172 Bruz.
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