Founded in 1994, ENSAI has been located on the Ker Lann Campus since 1996, in the countryside just outside Rennes. ENSAI is part of prestigious higher education establishments in France known as Grandes écoles or specialized graduate schools. ENSAI's education trains its students to become qualified, high-level managers in information processing and analysis. After graduating from the statistical engineering or INSEE civil servant statistician program, our students have threefold expertise in statistics, econometrics, and computer science, which is universally recognized in all professional sectors.
After three years, statistical engineering students become statistical engineers when they obtain the Diplôme d'ingénieur, a Master's-level engineering degree equivalent to a Master of Science (MSc) in Statistics (representative of an entire five years and 300 ECTS credits of post-baccalauréat studies).
Civil servant student interns become official civil servant statisticians for INSEE after two years; they are paid for their education at ENSAI, a monthly net salary of roughly € 1,550 (bonuses included).
ENSAI is also accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research to deliver a Master of Science in Big Data (known as a Master international or DNM in the French nomenclature).
ENSAI is the leading French Grande Ecole, or graduate school, to dispense in-depth education in statistics, economics, and computer science, enabling its graduates to work in one of the many statistical engineering fields. After three years of study, our students graduate as ENSAI statistical engineers with a degree accredited by the CTI.
Training INSEE executives for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
For a third of our students each year, coming to ENSAI means starting their civil service career as a member of the INSEE corps of civil servant statisticians. Training lasts two years, and they follow the same courses as the statistical engineering students during this period. Civil servants can, under certain conditions, obtain a Bac + 5 level through the Public Evaluation and Decision inside Rennes' Master of Applied Mathematics, Statistic" thanks to integrated training, which can be continuous (following the two years of initial training) or deferred (during the first six years of their professional life).
Until 1994 the training provided by ENSAI was as a branch of ENSAE (Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics, and Finance) in Paris.
When the GENES (the Grouping of National Economics and Statistics Schools) was set up, the CGSA branch of ENSAE was renamed the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information (ENSAI, the National School for Statistics and Information Analysis). It trains engineers for all fields of statistics and information processing.
ENSAI and the two research teams of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) moved to Rennes in 1996.
ENSAI's mission is to prepare its students for professions involving the collection and analysis of information, especially in the social and economic spheres, and industry, life sciences, marketing, finance, health, and information systems.
The schooling lasts two years for civil servant statisticians and three years for statistical engineering students.
Civil servant statisticians and statistical engineering students follow the same classes, for the most part, sit the same exams, and are marked together. However, in the second semester of the second year, the students choose their classes.
Thanks to partnerships, engineering and civil servant students can obtain, under certain conditions, a license (L3 level) in Applied Economics with the Paris Dauphine University, or a license in Mathematics et Rennes 1 University. The cursus leading to the license in Economics is done during the second year at Bonsai.
ENSAI's mission is to prepare its students for professions involving the collection and analysis of information, especially in the social and economic spheres, and industry, life sciences, marketing, finance, health, and information systems.
The schooling lasts two years for civil servant statisticians and three years for statistical engineering students.
Civil servant statisticians and statistical engineering students follow the same classes, for the most part, sit the same exams, and are graded together. However, in the second semester of the second year, the students choose their classes.
The standard version of the third year only concerns statistical engineering students. It seeks to provide them with a genuine specialization while at the same time introducing them to the professional world. Most of the teachers are from the professional sector, giving students an introduction to the problems they will handle after graduation. Students work in the statistical, I.T., or economics departments of public or private companies and learn how to draw on what they have learned and discover their future professional environment.
Set on the 2nd floor of the school, 70 places are available in the library reading room.
Its collection of documents comprises nearly 18,000 works, about 200 collections of periodicals (especially scientists) of which current about thirty.
