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The 'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées' (ENPC) ("National school of Bridges and Roads"), often referred to as 'les Ponts', is the world's oldest civil engineering school and remains to this day one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles of engineering.
It is located in Marne-la-Vallée (suburb of Paris). It is among the oldest and most prestigious institutes members of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).

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Academics

Alumni

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Academics

With traditional core competences in civil engineering, environment, transport, town and regional planning, mechanics, industrial management and logistics, ENPC offers high-level programmes in an extensive range of fields, from applied mathematics to economics and management.
ENPC is among the schools called "généralistes", which means that the graduates are able to do literally every job, from working at EuroDisney to neurosurgery, and can quickly become top industrial managers.
Three major types of programmes are on offer :

★ Engineering programmes: leading to a 5-year postgraduate engineering degree (accessible, after competitive examinations, by both undergraduate-graduate curriculum and the 2-year master course) or to masters of science

★ Doctoral programmes: DEAs and Ph.D.s

★ Professional programmes for postgraduates: ''Mastères spécialisés'' (M.S.), MBA.

★ In conjunction with Temple University-Philadelphia, USA, ENPC is the first leg of the Fox School of Business International MBA, with study in Paris, Philadelphia, and Tokyo.
ENPC is also an application school of École Polytechnique, and provides education for the Corps of Bridges and Roads.

Alumni

Alumni include:

★ Paul Andreu

★ Albert Caquot

★ Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

★ Augustin Louis Cauchy

★ Claude-Louis Navier

★ Augustin-Jean Fresnel

★ Marie François Sadi Carnot

★ Henri Becquerel

★ Fulgence Bienvenue

★ Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

★ Antoine Leonard de Chézy

★ Prince Souphanouvong

★ Fouad Laroui

★ Guy Béart
Past and present faculty include:

★ Étienne-Louis Boullée

External links

★ Official site (in English)

★ Alumni website (in French)