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In September 2016, ENS Cachan changed its name, becoming École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. This critical step signifies the centrality of Université Paris-Saclay and the Paris-Saclay campus to the School's vision and its new incarnation as the grande école for teaching research within this prestigious university system. ENS Paris-Saclay delivers a scientific and cultural education of the highest standard, continuing the excellence of the écoles normales supérieures. What sets the School apart is that it brings together disciplines that no other higher education institution combines in quite the same way or at the same level: the natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences. In this unique environment, normalize students receive research-intensive training leading to master's and doctoral degrees in their chosen discipline, frequently coupled with an advanced teaching qualification. ENS Paris-Saclay is also a research center with 14 laboratories covering all the disciplines taught at the School. It maintains partnerships with research organizations such as CNRS, INRIA, CEA, and other higher education and research institutions. In close collaboration with industry, the School conducts many high-level research programs through research chairs and joint laboratories involving companies in the aeronautics, aerospace, energy, automotive, and IT sectors (Airbus, EDF, Atos, Hewlett-Packard, etc.). Through its laboratories, ENS Paris-Saclay is involved in four clusters in the greater Paris region and numerous laboratories and international research groups in China, Korea, Japan, Israel, India, Brazil, and the United States. The mission of ENS Paris-Saclay is to prepare students for careers in teaching and research, with a research led-education of the highest standard. To fulfill this mission, the School must develop cutting-edge research activities while offering excellent graduate training at both doctorate and master's level. Research at ENS Paris-Saclay reflects a commitment to linking basic research to applications with a robust experimental dimension. As a member of Université Paris-Saclay, the School can intensify collaboration with laboratories from the other partner institutions and coordinate its strategy with theirs. The School also benefits from Université Paris-Saclay's high profile and international attractiveness to diversify its student body. The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay is a public higher education and research institution (known under French law as an Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel). The School determines its teaching and research policy and organizes it to implement it, in line with the relevant regulatory framework and its contractual commitments. View full university

At the same time, a French grande école and a university, the Ecole normale supérieure provides in Paris, at the heart of the Quartier Latin, excellent training through research, leading to various teaching and research professions, and contributes to training through research the senior executives of public administrations as well as of French and European companies. The ENS also defines and applies scientific and technological research policies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. Intellectual freedom, multidisciplinarity in humanities and sciences, individual attention to students, bountiful campus life, gathering students and professors from all disciplines form the heart of the specificities of the Ecole normale supérieure. For more than two centuries, the ENS prepares its students for the most various openings and the highest responsibilities while being fully invested in the intellectual, scientific, and cultural debates of its time – mainly through the multiplicity of the normalized' engagement. The Ecole normale supérieure maintains close relationships with various partners, in France or abroad, particularly within the framework of international agreements, corporate sponsorship, and initiatives taken by private individuals, relying on partner foundations. The École normale supérieure is a member of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. This institution has been founded by 25 prestigious institutions established in Paris, which have gathered together. All these institutions have in common to train their students through research. They are all willing to create disciplinary convergences, make innovation and creativity more dynamic, attract and train the best students, and research a real growth driver. The Management team of the ENS has the mission to design and implement the scientific and educational policy of the Ecole normale supérieure. They submit their proposals to the Scientific Advisory Board, which gives an opinion, and the Administrative Advisory Board, which validates the strategic guidelines and budgetary choices. The Management team sets up some consensus and decision-making structures to promote discussion and consensus within the institution. The Management team ensures the preservation of the ENS's identity and its level of excellence. They take great care of the ENS's development and influence both on a national and international level. The Director is appointed, by decree of the President of the French Republic, for a five-year term, immediately renewable once. He leads and coordinates the considerations for the definition of the general policy of the institution. He represents the ENS in France and abroad and negotiates partnerships. He appoints the jury members for the competitive examinations. Since 2012 Marc Mézard leads the Ecole normale supérieure. The Ecole normale supérieure aims at varying its students' profiles and incorporates students to be enrolled in the 3rd year of bachelor (license 3) or 1st year of master (master 1), coming from all over the world and from all disciplines. The competitive examination of the International selection is intended for young graduates in Arts & Humanities as well as Sciences. They justify at least one year of undergraduate studies in a foreign university and distinguish themselves with outstanding results. All member institutions have a strong identity, a limited number of students, and a strong commitment towards research: these are the right conditions for an academic culture of excellence. They have decided to gather to join their forces and build research projects of international reach and high-ranking interdisciplinary training. PSL has a global academic training offer, from undergraduate programs to doctoral programs, in all disciplinary fields, from life and matter sciences to humanities and social sciences, from art creation to economics and management. PSL launches now cultural and sports initiatives, in which students and staff from the member institutions take part. Among these projects, the PSL Chorus and Orchestra is incredibly noticeable and followed there is also the Sports association AS PSL or the Revue PSL journal. View full university

The Scuola Normale Superiore is a public institute for higher education that, in its two centuries of life, has earned itself a particular place, both in Italy and abroad, a place characterized by merit, talent, and scientific rigor. Two types, of course, are available: the undergraduate course and the Ph.D. course. The teaching activity is distributed among three academic structures: the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, placed in Pisa, and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, located in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The Scuola's institutional aim is to promote the development of culture, teaching, and research in the sciences and the humanities. This particular purpose is achieved by exploring the interconnections between these two areas. This vital aim is also obtained through a very high university and post-university education and continuing and systematic training, giving priority to the relationship between education and research. The Scuola's final purpose is to transmit the acquired abilities to the public administration and the world of professions. The Scuola Normale Superiore is a public university. The Scuola offers both undergraduate and Ph.D. courses. The undergraduate course, admission to which is by calling, is equivalent to the university degree course and leads to a degree certificate. Teaching is divided between the Scuola Normale, where students attend courses and seminars focussing on the rapid development of an approach to scientific research, with yearly assessments on specific research themes, and the University of Pisa. Students are required to meet the highest standards of academic performance. Their undergraduate career is entirely free of cost: the Scuola Normale fully reimburses all university taxes and provides board and lodging to all normalized as well as an annual study grant. The Ph.D. course is a post laureate course organized autonomously by the Normale, leading to the title of Philosophiae Doctor. Admission is by call, publications, interviews, and dedicated specialist teaching; it involves developing an original research project aided in part by a network of collaboration with the most important figures of international research. Financial compensation for Ph.D. course students, including a fellowship grant, a mobility allowance, and expense reimbursements, is one of the highest currently offered by the Italian universities. The traditional study areas are the Humanities (History of Art and Archaeology, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Philosophy, History, and Philology) and Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology). The Ph.D. course includes the study of the social and political sciences. Collegiate life is the most significant feature of the Scuola: the students live in it they are entitled to a single room in one of the residential colleges (in Pisa the Carducci, Timpano, Fermi and Faedo colleges, and in Florence the Capitini residence), and they can eat in a refectory shared with the professors and researchers. They have free access to the open shelf library, one of the most sizeable of its kind in Europe, and to the laboratory activities they must engage in right from the start of their academic career. At the Scuola Normale, teachers, researchers, and students live in the same environment, switching between teaching activities and research in the labs and attending the cultural events organized by and within the Scuola. An optimum teacher to student ratio (about 1 to 10), the seminar method of teaching, the prevalence of interaction and discussion within the academic environment, as opposed to more traditional lectures: these are the essential ingredients of the typical college life of the Scuola Normale. View full university

The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon is an elite French public institution that trains professors, researchers, senior civil servants, and business and political leaders. Students choose their courses and split their time between training and research into sciences and humanities. Built on the ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud tradition, founded in 1880, the ENS de Lyon also focuses on educational research. It is a symbol of French Republican meritocracy, and it remains committed today to disseminate knowledge to the broadest audience and to promote equal opportunity. The ENS de Lyon is part of the Université de Lyon and supports quality research that has earned it a Fields medal (Cedric Villani, 2010) and many CNRS medals. It encourages interdisciplinary studies to foster a better understanding of complex contemporary issues. Setting up an ENS in Lyon was a bit of a long shot! However, the French Ministry and directors of the Écoles - reputed French higher education establishments rose to the challenge and local decision-makers, universities, and scientific researchers, to create an ENS and leading research laboratories, outside the French capital. Today, we can say that their efforts have paid off! ENS de Lyon is proud to open its doors to show visitors what the School has achieved over 30 years, thanks to all the teacher-researchers, staff, and ENS pupils and other students who have all contributed to this success. Aiming to set up a comprehensive training and research network, the ENS de Lyon has developed strong international partnerships with universities, research institutes, and other institutions. It strives to break barriers between training and research, be an active part of European and international research networks, link businesses with experimental research, and contribute to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge. The ENS de Lyon bets on international strategic partnerships and networks to enhance its research & academic programs and stand on the global stage. It also encourages academic mobility beyond borders, whether through exchange programs such as Erasmus, internships, and sabbaticals. Relying on strong research cooperations, the ENS de Lyon has developed a global network of academic and research partnerships. The ENS de Lyon's research labs, teaching departments, and student clubs organize, throughout the year, myriad conferences and events. Since 2002, the association "Confluence des savoirs" brings together a dozen public and private partners that organize 6 to 8 conferences each year, centered around a debate between a renowned scientist and a famous artist. The ENS de Lyon is a partner of this initiative. The library of the ENS de Lyon is home to some 1.2 million documents and electronic resources that can be consulted by anyone. Students, teachers, and researchers from Lyon and its region can borrow titles from Monday through Friday 9 am - 7 pm and Saturday 9 am - 5 pm. The ENS de Lyon can accommodate some 700 students in its halls of residence, each having a watchman. Each room has unlimited cable access to the internet and the ENS intranet as well as 36 television channels, of which 27 are in foreign languages. With the appropriate decoder, residents also have access to satellite services from around the world. Residents have free access to the television room, music room, weights room, and laundry rooms. Students from around the world can come to the ENS de Lyon as part of an exchange program through the School's competitive entrance exam or based on their academic record. They can apply for a Master's, enroll in a Ph.D., or carry out an internship in one of the School's laboratories. Study programs are tailored to students' individual needs, and various scholarships can help them fund their stay in France. View full university