Courses

9 departements

• 1st year
• languages
• humanities and social sciences
• civil engineering and construction
• planning, environment, transport
• mechanical engineering and materials science
• industrial engineering
• economics, management, finance
• applied mathematics and computer science

Teaching programme

• 399 scientific and technical modules
• 200 language modules
• 54 international management training modules under the Executive MBA and Full-Time MBA programmes

Faculty staff 

1 237 part-time teachers, including:

• 158 teachers for the engineering modules (excluding languages and sport)
• 130 teachers for the specialist modules
• 80 professors of the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 3 assistant professors and 84 lecturers

Student numbers

870 engineering students:

• 134 in 1st year
• 229 in 2nd year
• 60 in Integrated Further Training (FCI) including 21 students from the Engineering, Water and Forest programmes (IEPEF)
• 169 on one-year gap placements (long course)
• 190 in 3rd year
• 88 trainee students from international and French higher education establishments, excluding dual qualification agreements
• 137 the Masters programme
• 457 on PhD programmes
• 175 on specialist Masters programmes including 17 IEPEF and 22 public service engineers (City of Paris Engineers, military engineers, Public Works Engineers, École normale supérieure, National Geographical Institute)
• 435 on ENPC’s MBA programme
• 18 in post-competition training as Government Architects and Planners (AUE)

A total of 2 036 students, a quarter of them female

Internships and work placements in engineer training programmes

1st year:

• starter course:?

The course begins with begins with 4 weeks in an operational work placement ?

• scientific course:?

The whole year group spends 3 months (May to July) in public or private research establishments, 57% abroad

Between 2nd and 3rd year:

• 80 % of the year group does a one-year placement more than 1/4 of them abroad?
• the other students do a two-month summer placement, more than 30% of them abroad

3rd year:

• End of Course Project (PFE):? For at least 4 months, students apply the skills acquired in the course of their studies to a scientific or technical problem in a corporate or research context

Qualifications awarded

• 264 engineering degrees
• 99 Masters degrees
• 65 doctoral theses (50 PhDs awarded by Paris-East University, 13 by École des Ponts ParisTech)
• 135 specialist Masters degrees
• 174 MBA des Ponts    

Job opportunities

2011 survey of graduates in 2010 (excluding public service personnel):

• Construction and Public Works 21 %
• Banking/Finance 18 %
• Industry 13 %
• Environment/Transport/Urban Services 6%
• Design and consultancy 8%
• Government/Local Authority/Public Institution/International Organisation 3%
• Research/Innovation 12%
• Design and technical consultancy 11%
• Telecommunications/ICT 4%
• Other sectors 4 %

Average first job salary: 
€41,200 and €46.2 thousand with emoluments

Administrative staff

Permanent staff as of 31.12.2011 (excluding teaching staff, researchers, PhD students and public service trainees) out of the School's 442 full-time employees:

Breakdown by activity:

• Teaching: 79
• Research: 238 including 195 researchers
• Support: 125

Consolidated budget

Expenditure in 2011 (financial account)

• Operations €40.615 million (€41.596 million in 2010)
•  Investment €3.804 million  (€3.028 million in2009)

Resources in 2011 : : To conduct these activities, the School employed resources of € 42.400 million:

• Ministry of the Environment subsidy for public service costs €25.910 million
• Ministry of the Environment equipment subsidy €2.035 million
• Course fees €3.572 million
• Apprenticeship tax levy €1.026 million
• Research contracts €6.088 million
• Other resources €3.114 million 
• Descartes+ building operation € 0.655 million 

Revenues of School subsidiaries in  2011

• Ponts Formation Édition publishing: € 9.500 million 
• MIB Développement: €1.912 million