Centrale Méditerranée (), formerly known as (), is a leading graduate school of engineering (or

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) located in

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, the second largest city in

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. Centrale Méditerranée was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions and has its origins from the ''École d'Ingénieurs de Marseille'' founded in 1891. As a successor school of the latter, it is one of the oldest French engineering Grande école, and is amongst the best engineering school of France. It is one of the prestigious

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s (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Marseille) and a member of the TIME (

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) network. From its creation, Centrale Méditerranée trains highly skilled and versatile engineers (called "ingénieurs centraliens"), recruited since 2004 through a nationwide highly competitive exam shared with the other Centrale Graduate Schools.

Academic profile

Centrale Méditerranée is a multidisciplinary school, where the great majority of the students have endured two or three years of intensive maths and physics training (known as prepa) in order to train for the

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(known as one of the hardest competitive exams in France). As future general engineers, students do not have any particular major before the last year (Master's level), during which they have to choose among a few electives: * Mechanical engineering * Chemical engineering * Physics, optics and electrical engineering * Business Administration and Finance * Mathematics and computer science The students can also complete their last year in one of the other

s or be part of an exchange program. There are three-years PhD programs available in all the aforementioned domains of research (the students are required to have completed a Master's program).

Exchange programs

Being a part of the TIME (

) network, the school has exchange program with many universities across the world, among them : *

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Research

Eight research laboratories are under the joint leadership of Ecole Centrale Marseille and

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as ) is a Public university, public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, List of rulers of Provence, Count of ...

: * Laboratory for Mechanics and Acoustics (Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique) * Fresnel Institute (Optics, Photonics and Signal Processing) * Institute of Research on Non Equilibrium Phenomena (Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre) * Institute of Molecular Sciences of Marseille (Institut des sciences moléculaires de Marseille) * Mechanics, Modelling and Clean Processes (Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres) * Research Group in Quantitative Economics of Aix-Marseille (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Quantitative) * Laboratory of Analysis, Topology, and Probability (Laboratoire d’Analyse, Topologie, Probabilités) * Laboratory of Fundamental Computer Science (Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale)

Rankings

Centrale Méditerranée is ranked among the top 20 French

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(graduate schools), though it does not appear in international rankings due to its very limited number of students (250 students for the class of 2016).

Alumni

The alumni network has about 16,000 members worldwide.

Notable alumni

* Malika Haimeur (1956–), awarded the

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for Women & Business in 2009

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Centrale Méditerranée

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