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École Polytechnique is a leading French institute that combines top-level research, academics, and innovation at the cutting-edge of science and technology. Its curriculum promotes a culture of excellence with a strong emphasis on science, anchored in humanist traditions. The school produces socially responsible professionals who excel in leading complex and innovative projects which address current and future challenges facing our society.
In today's climate of fierce economic competition, innovation is the only route to prosperity. École Polytechnique trains leaders with solid backgrounds in multidisciplinary science through ample exposure to both the business and research worlds.
École Polytechnique was founded in 1794, a period marked not only by political and economic upheaval but also by the end of the Age of Enlightenment. During this unique moment in history, the Comité de Salut Public (French Public Welfare Committee) anticipated the future applications of the myriad scientific and technical discoveries that occurred during the 18th century and triggered the Industrial Revolution. It entrusted Gaspard Monge, Lazare Carnot, and several other scholars with enlisting, using a competitive recruitment process, the best minds of their time, and teaching them science for the benefit of the French Republic.
At the start of the 21st century, another era characterized by geopolitical, economic, and environmental difficulties, as well as numerous groundbreaking technologies, École Polytechnique maintains the same philosophical core. A staunch defender of the idea that innovation is the only driving force of collective prosperity, the university is a significant contributor to promoting responsible productive, economic and scientific development.
As a higher education establishment, l'X naturally seeks to share the most up-to-date knowledge to benefit its students, selected based on the criteria of excellence for which it is renowned.
However, École Polytechnique also creates knowledge, for its professors are both teachers and researchers. It hosts around twenty laboratories closely connected to French national research institutions and committed to prestigious international collaboration. These laboratories aim to achieve results in intellectual property rights and publications in leading journals in both fundamental and applied research.
École Polytechnique's credo is to be multidisciplinary both in its teaching and research. Structured around ten scientific disciplines, including humanities and social sciences, it focuses its research on eight themes that involve collaboration between the laboratories. Such a model stems from the observation that fruitful innovations accepted by society are born from the confrontation and cooperation of disciplines, including philosophy.
In an informed and mobile society, today's best students can choose from any number of universities. Higher education is an international competition, and l'X has its share of competitors— which incidentally are often partners —whose financial means, from both public and private sources, are substantial.
In this stimulating environment, École Polytechnique's aim is to be recognized by the most exceptional students from around the world as an institution where they can acquire a knowledge base and know-how and gain access to a network of former students which will allow them to have a fulfilling professional life in line with their ambitions.
The university is also developing its activities designed to benefit companies, which generate value. It hopes to offer them research and development results, which will allow them to prosper both on an industrial and economic level.


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