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ESTP ENGINEERING DEGREE | GRANDE ECOLE PROGRAMME
To excel as an engineer means being able to make informed decisions, drive change, provide a global vision, innovate, and demonstrate both management and ethical principles. Over the course of three years, you will discover and strengthen your leadership, communication, and project management skills, while positioning yourself as an eco-responsible manager. You will also refine your career plans by deepening your professional expertise.
ESTP offers a high-level engineering degree recognised by companies as a benchmark in the training of construction and sustainable development managers.
Focused on the challenges of tomorrow's low-carbon construction, infrastructure and urban development, the programme is built around a core curriculum to consolidate scientific knowledge and a personalised educational pathway for each engineering student from the 2nd year onwards.
This diploma ensures immediate professional integration in France and abroad in professions that respond to the complexity of tomorrow's major design, construction and urban transformation projects.
THE PGE ENGINEERING PATH 2024-2025
1ST YEAR
A COMMON CORE OVER 3 SEMESTERS AND A COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH
Five areas of knowledge and skill development during semesters 5, 6, and 7, with approximately 400 hours of teaching per semester.
◽ MATHEMATICAL AND MODELING TOOLS
Modeling and problem-solving tools, numerical signal processing, BIM, data science, geomatics…
◽ MECHANICS AND MATERIALS
Material science, continuum mechanics, soil mechanics…
◽ CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES
Building energy, electricity and energy, material resistance, urban topography…
◽ SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION CHALLENGES
Climate and environmental challenges, eco-design, bio-based and reused materials, renovation.
◽ MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECT
Business economics, innovation and research, project management, soft skills, foreign languages…
A practical internship of at least 6 weeks.
2ND YEAR
At ESTP, engineering students begin shaping their educational project in the second year by choosing a thematic pathway:
◽ Sustainable Construction
◽ Urban Development and Mobility
◽ Decarbonized Public Works / Environmental Civil Engineering
◽ Energy Transition in Construction
◽ Digital Transition in Construction
A technical study internship of at least 9 to 12 weeks.
INTER-CAMPUS MOBILITY FOR OPTION SELECTION BETWEEN THE 2nd AND 3rd YEAR
(Possibility of a gap year under certain conditions)
3RD YEAR
Transition to professional life and selection of a specialization and career expertise in innovative and attractive fields for companies:
OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM IN THE 3rd YEAR*
◽ Low-Carbon Design and Construction
◽ Construction 4.0
◽ Real Estate Development and Usage
◽ Ecological Civil Engineering
◽ Nuclear Civil Engineering (🇬🇧)
◽ Road Infrastructure and Sustainable Development
◽ Infrastructure and Underground Works
◽ Digital Twins and AI (🇬🇧)
◽ Modeling of Complex Structures
◽ Energy Production, Transport and Storage, Smart Grid
◽ Renovation and Rehabilitation of Built Heritage
◽ GIS, Topography, and Digital Solutions
◽ Sustainable and Decarbonized Urban Planning
Thematic pathways and options are offered based on the specialty of each campus and are subject to change.
Final Project – Engineering assignment of at least 24 weeks.
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
◽ One-semester exchange with one of our academic partners
AND/OR
◽ Engineering assignment abroad (minimum 24 weeks)
Our student engineering course leads to the ESTP engineering diploma (Master's equivalent) accredited by the CTI (Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs), recognised by the French government (Ministry of Higher Education and Research - MESR) and registered in the RNCP (Registre National des Certifications Professionnelles).
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As a French private university, leader in the construction sector in France, ESTP is offering a full curriculum entirely taught in English and dedicated to international students seeking a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering.
This program deals with all fundamental subjects of the built environment including a specialization and a 6-month internship. Through technical courses and soft skills development, ESTP strives to train global civil engineers, ready to work all over the world.
A “study-abroad student” may attend a semester only or a full academic year as an exchange student without graduation. Students attending this program will be able to complete 30 ECTS (European credits) per semester and 60 ECTS per year.
Additionally, French Language classes are organized for non-French speaking students throughout the program.
Courses will be led by teachers or professors from ESTP and our best visiting professors from our partner universities abroad.
🔗 MASTER’S DEGREE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
WHO CAN APPLY ?
- International students with a scientific background holding an equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree
- International students from partner institutions
- French students from ESTP
WHEN TO APPLY ?
- Applications are due by June 15th for degree seeking students and Fall semester applicants and October 15th for Spring semester applicants : internationaladmission@estp.fr
WHERE ?
- On our campus in Cachan, near Paris.
