ParisTech brings together ten of the foremost French institutes of engineering education and research.

Covering nearly the whole spectrum of science and engineering, it forms an entity of comparable status to the most famous universities of technology around the world.

ParisTech awards approximately 6200 degrees every year and hosts some 2 500 doctoral students. 500 PhD thesis are delivered every year.

The Faculty is composed of over 3500 teachers-researchers, belonging to 126 research laboratories.

The member institutes of ParisTech are well-established publicly-owned educational and research institutions, many of which were founded back in the 18th century. Ever since, they stood at the forefront of technological and scientific developments in their field and trained a majority of the engineers who gave rise to France's industrial achievements.ParisTech is a member of the IDEA League network.

The École des Ponts plays a key-role in several programmes within the framework of ParisTech such as "50 chinese engineers at ParisTech ".