École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes

École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes

Former names	IRESTE, ISITEM & ESA IGELEC
Type	Grande école
Established	January 2000
Director	René Le Gall
Administrative staff	200 (2011)
Students	1,250 (2011)
Postgraduates	5,600
Doctoral students	250
Location	Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France
Campus	multiple campuses
Affiliations	University of Nantes, Polytech group, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
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École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes (also known as Polytech Nantes) is a French Grande École which provides curricula and run research programmes in a variety of scientific and technological fields:

• electronic and digital technologies
• electrical engineering
• civil engineering
• computer science
• thermal and energy sciences
• materials sciences
• energies (apprenticeship)

General information

It is located on two distinct campuses:

• "La Chantrerie" 47°16′59.16″N 1°30′51.16″W / 47.2831000°N 1.5142111°W in the city of Nantes
• "Gavy" 47°15′2.11″N 2°15′29.07″W / 47.2505861°N 2.2580750°W in the city of Saint-Nazaire

The school was created in January 2000 through the merging of three existing engineering schools: ESA-IGELEC, IRESTE, and ISITEM.

Affiliations

Polytech Nantes is a department of the University of Nantes and a member of the Polytech group which is a network of 13 graduate engineering schools within France's leading science universities located in Marseille, Nantes, Montpellier, Nice, Grenoble, Paris, Annecy-Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Tours, Lyon and Lille.

External links

• Polytech Nantes
• Polytech group
• Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (English)
• Student union (French)