ENSIIE

ENSIIE (École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise, written ensIIE) is a public grande école d'ingénieurs in Évry-Courcouronnes, in the Essonne south of Paris. It trains generalist engineers in computer science, with applied mathematics, business management and entrepreneurship alongside. The school describes itself as a state-run engineering school with more than 58 years of experience and has trained more than 5,000 engineers since 1968. It holds the status of établissement public à caractère administratif (EPA) under the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and is an associated school of the Institut Mines-Télécom.

The engineering degree is Ingénieur ENSIIE, specialty Informatique, recognised by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI). It can be taken as a three-year, six-semester course under student status (FISE) or by work-study under apprentice status (FISA), run with the CFA-EVE, in which apprentices alternate two days in a company and three days at school. A validation of professional experience route (VAE) and continuing education complete the offer.

The curriculum is organised around four axes: advanced computer science, applied mathematics (probability, statistics, optimisation, financial mathematics), business management (economics, law, project management, company creation) and entrepreneurship. From the second year FISE students choose among five pathways: Applied Mathematics, Software Engineering (with sub-tracks in safe programming and digital security), Digital Interactions (video games, human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, intelligent systems) and High-Performance Computing and Big Data. These give access to twelve bi-curriculum masters in the third year, run with Université Paris-Saclay and Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Internships last 8 weeks after year one, 10 weeks after year two and six months in year three. A double-degree engineer-manager course with Institut Mines-Télécom Business School lasts four years.

The school stands in central Évry-Courcouronnes, between the town hall and the prefecture, near the RER D station. Student life is built around more than fifty associations, including the sports bureau (BdS), music groups, video-game and board-game clubs, virtual reality and robotics clubs, a student newspaper, humanitarian associations and the student union (BdE). Housing is available through partner residences, with a quota reserved with the CROUS and La Maisel for incoming exchange and double-degree students and for non-scholarship students.

International experience is compulsory: every engineering student must complete at least four months abroad through an academic stay, an internship in a company or laboratory, or a VIE. Partnerships include Erasmus+ programmes, double degrees and exchange agreements. Incoming exchange students follow courses in French at level B1 and can take a French-as-a-foreign-language course at the end of August before the start of term. Languages taught include English (compulsory first language), German, Chinese, Spanish, French as a foreign language, Italian, Japanese and Russian.