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Founded in 1919, PURPAN educates non-specialized engineers over five years. Over 300 professions are open to them in life sciences, Agriculture, Food-processing, Marketing, and Management. The School's mission is to provide a public service in training, research, international cooperation, and the transfer of technologies. The Agriculture, Food Processing, and Forestry Ministry have joint responsibility for issuing engineering degrees from PURPAN. Located in the heart of Toulouse, the School awards degrees to 200 engineers every year. For 100 years, PURPAN engineers have been convinced that the School has thrived to increase their skills and develop their human senses. To do so, we have five years, positioned in a critical period for personality development, five years during which our high-level faculty, chosen professionals, and the school personnel commit to an educational project destined to allow our future engineers to acquire those values essential to their future. We believe in structuration through education, in talent through work, in wonderment through discovery, in fulfillment through encounters, and in intelligence through reflection on life experiences. PURPAN has forged its reputation for excellence with enterprises through its engineers' workable to put into action the search for performance and quality, aptitude to change, respect of others, solidarity, honesty, and humanity. Today, almost 500 PURPAN graduates are working in over 300 professions, both in France and abroad. PURPAN, founded in 1919 by Jesuit farmers and teachers, educates non-specialized engineers through a 5-year post-baccalauréat course Through success-oriented teaching methods with Ignatian origins: the importance of experimentation, analysis, support and revision, PURPAN's ambition is to foster the development of men and women endowed with a great capacity for action and adaptation, integrating personal commitment, solidarity, a sense of action and a passion for service. Over 300 professions are open to our students in the following sectors: life sciences, agriculture, the food-processing industry, marketing, and management... PURPAN's mission (recognized by the Rocard Law of 1984) is to provide a public service in training, research, international cooperation, and technology transfer. The Agriculture, Food Processing and Forestry Ministry and National Committee of Engineering Degrees have joint responsibility for issuing engineering degrees from the PURPAN Engineering School. Located in the heart of Toulouse, in a fantastic leafy setting, the PURPAN awards degrees to 180 engineers every year. Learning responsibilities and commitment to others are the key aspects of civic education. PURAN supports and promotes activities launched by the students who adhere to our advocated values. Encouraging student sports, societies, and clubs are in line with our strategy. It runs the specific facilities (student residence, sports equipment, etc.) and clubs (photos, music, theatre, hiking, cinema, etc.). It holds weekly meetings with the School Director to develop the quality of life on campus. 50% of PURPAN students are members of university sports teams or clubs. Many international sportsmen and women (rugby, equestrian, etc.) have trained at PURPAN in a specially tailored course (e.g., Yannick Jauzion, international rugby player). PURPAN is one of the rare Schools which organizes, together with the students, on-site parties and events where everyone learns to combine joie de vivre, partying, and self-control. Our site has been organized to be able to house cars and bicycles. Various car-sharing solutions are set up among the students. In this context, our team strives to make our organization as open as possible. Fostering the emergence of cross-sectional teams, triggering creativity, and managing each project are our main action areas. We can thus experience what our students will discover later in their companies. PURPAN offers every kind of further education course and Bachelor's and Master's degrees and PhDs. Students gain real professional life experience during internships (15 to 18 months during engineer training) and numerous simulations of work situations (project-based teaching). The following can be found at the heart of our teaching: mastering analysis, calculation, modeling and simulation tools, and implementing a scientific approach. To gain self-confidence, discover other cultures and environments, prepare to work in a multi-cultural world, and master foreign languages. Guiding young people to master all the complexity calls for rigor to acquire a range of technical, economic, sociological, and legal disciplines. View full university