The Blois campus offers engineering courses with the Industrial Systems Engineering (GSI) department, and landscape architect courses with the School for Nature and Landscape (ENP), the INSA Centre Val de Loire's 5th department, which was set up on 1 January 2015 following the integration of the Blois National Graduate School for Nature and Landscape.
This cross-training in the engineering sciences aims to train engineers capable of taking on the industrial production activity in its entirety, including R & D, manufacturing, and the "support" professions (QHSE, maintenance, purchasing, etc.).
Having absorbed these two schools, the Institute now awards four engineering degrees: Energy, Risk and the Environment together with the Cher Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Hubert Curien CFSA (Apprentice Further Training Centre) in Bourges, Industrial Systems Engineering, Industrial Risk Control, and Information Technology and Cybersecurity. The Institute was extended on 1 January 2015 when it absorbed the National Graduate School for Nature and Landscape, becoming the "School for Nature and Landscape" department. This will award the State Landscape Architect Degree after a five-year higher education course leading to a Master's.
What's more, just like all INSA schools, the INSA Centre Val de Loire is authorized to award PhDs.With 200 members of staff – teachers, research professors, administrative and technical staff – the Institute now trains 1,400 students on its two campuses in Blois and Bourges. As the youngest member of the INSA Group, the INSA Centre Val de Loire is part of a development drive. Two thousand students are expected to enroll at the INSA in 2019. With this in mind, an ambitious real estate plan entailing the extension of teaching and research premises and sports facilities and accommodation is in the pipeline to cater to this growth over the next five years.
The INSA Centre Val de Loire is a regional and national economic stakeholder that forges research and innovation partnerships with companies. The courses taught set great store by their students gaining international and practical work experience, which results in over 90% of them finding work six months after graduating. Last but by no means least, a thriving and enriching student life rounds these benefits off.
The Bilingual International Stream at the INSA Centre Val de Loire can be accessed from year one of the first cycles, to prepare students during their first two semesters for the international aspects of their future engineering job their course. The maximum number of students who can participate in this Stream at the INSA Centre Val de Loire is 24: 50% French students and 50% international students with a high school diploma (equivalent to the French baccalauréat).
The course is organized around theoretical and practical knowledge concerning the multifaceted question of landscapes and the skills specific to the landscape architect's profession of assessing, programming, and designing.
The landscape project forms the beginning and end of the course. As an inhabited, represented, cultivated, and developed territory, the landscape is always moving, evolving, and focusing on projects. The landscape is a project.
Landscape projects develop students' intuition and spark their creativity. They involve acquiring the method for analysis and diagnosis, defining the challenges and objectives that lead to individual or group projects.
They are often based on a real area of consideration or site. Students sketch out and develop a solution that they will design and implement themselves.
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