Centrale Nantes

Centrale Nantes has developed three trends in order to achieve that goal

• International, national and regional academic partnerships
• International, national and regional corporate partnerships
• Sustainable development

Today  Centrale Nantes welcomes growing numbers of excellent students, researchers, and academics from partner institutions in more than 50 various countries thanks to its international development.

Offering programmes taught in English at Master of Science level, Centrale Nantes’ high quality of teaching and research - engineering training programmes, Master's Degrees and PhDs - is fully recognized by prestigious national, European and international institutions.  The school has three Erasmus Mundus Master's Degrees and various attractive scholarships.  

International students are provided assistance to find accommodation and to fill all the administrative requirements by the international relations office and the students Union organizes many activities and clubs to facilitate the integration of the students.

With a network of 11,000 students, Centrale Nantes bridges the gaps between education, research, development, and the corporate world. Centrale Nantes’ challenging education and research are advanced by world-leading professors in a broad range of disciplines and by research units of excellence.

The school has access to following advanced facilities, further improving the schools research strength:

• Hull testing tank, which is one of the biggest towing tanks in Europe
• A wave tank with a multi flap wave maker which is unique in Europe and allows creating multidirectional waves
• Dynamic test centre
• Wind tunnel used to study the lower urban atmosphere
• Engine test benches
• Techno campus EMC2, which is a unique research and technological platform, dedicated to composites materials

Centrale Nantes fully takes part to the French and international industrial environment reinforcing and creating strong corporate partnerships with leading companies. The widespread recognition of the institution’s programmes by industries and R&D organizations has enabled graduates to assume positions of responsibility in every sector – among them Aeronautics and Space, Automobile, Construction and Public Works, Electronics, Information Sciences, Mechanics, Nuclear Energy, Offshore Operations, the Oil Business, Scientific and Technical Research, Consulting and Banking.

Thanks to its several research and development agreements and its Industrial Foundation Chairs, like EADS Foundation Chair, Centrale

Centrale Nantes is an innovative and competitive French School of Engineering.

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