School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry, Paris

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Ever since it was founded, ESPCI ParisTech has been gaining in prestige and status. Evolving from a municipal school established to train industrial production managers, it has achieved the status of a major institute of higher education in science and engineering, which recruits students via the most selective competitive examination in France - an exam in common with École Polytechnique and, since 2011, the Écoles Normales Supérieures (ENS schools).

ESPCI ParisTech (officially the école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris; The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution) is a Physics and Chemistry engineering college run by the city of Paris, France and a member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology). It conducts high level research in those fields.

The students enter the School after a competitive examination (concours X-ESPCI-ENS) following at least two years of Classes Préparatoires. They are called Pécéen or PC1(boys) and Pécéenne or PCN(girls). The School itself is also known as Physique-Chimie or simply PC.ESPCI develops its relations with industrial partners such as Schlumberger, Rhodia, Total, Thales, Arkema, Michelin, which sponsored each yeargroup of students and signed research contracts with ESPCI laboratories. ESPCI ParisTech has signed partnership agreements with L'Oréal and Saint-Gobain for the recruitment of their professionals.

Where they work

  • ESPCI Paris
  • Saint-Gobain
  • CEA
  • Solvay
  • Total
  • CNRS
  • L'Oreal
  • EDF
  • Air Liquide
  • Thales

What they do

  • Research
  • Engineering
  • Education
  • Business Development
  • Operations
  • Information Technology
  • Program and Project Management
  • Sales
  • Community and Social Services
  • Finance

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Community Reviews (11)

At the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris, my child's potential has flourished, thanks to the remarkable faculty who are both knowledgeable and genuinely invested in student success.
By Sameer Mehta (Feb, 2024) | Reply

My favorite science school I will work and see netflix, in it there is netflix peppa pig and masha and michka, car. The ESPCI paristech is the school of netflix, now I will work down every day.
By DIEGO LOPES (Jan, 2018) | Reply

A school on a human scale that ensures an efficiently supervised course thanks to a system of researcher-referents present and attentive.
By Théo Lenavetier (Sep, 2017) | Reply

Great school that teaches effective management of innovation.
By Grégory Pauchet (Sep, 2017) | Reply

Just admitted, I appreciate the warm welcome that I received from both the administration and the entire faculty.
By Irène Bivas (Sep, 2017) | Reply

A school where multidisciplinarity and strong links between subjects are at the heart of teaching! Not to mention the strong experimental component. In short, I recommend a thousand times !!
By Sirine Amiri (Sep, 2017) | Reply

Beautiful school where there is research in many scientific areas of interface, beautiful area.
By Mathieu Durand (Feb, 2017) | Reply

The best school of chemistry in France at what was said when I was a taupin. I was admitted when I was a chemist. The written chemistry test was easier than those of the generalist examinations.
By fogasterg (Feb, 2017) | Reply

I made a master 2. Excellent school that can be enjoyed for its academic quality, and its direction for research
By Mathias Jauze (Feb, 2016) | Reply

School very friendly with many engineers and researchers being opened in the neighborhood. A space exists to show the current science and before the public.
By Florent B (Feb, 2016) | Reply