ESPCI Paris : ESPCI ParisTech in figures

72 students in each annual class enroll as first-year students for the ingénieur degree
Between 75 and 80 graduate with the ingénieur degree each year (in addition to the 72 first-year students, others are admitted as 2nd or 3rd-year students based on previous academic work ; annual classes are kept small in order to preserve the close interaction between teaching and research that is the hallmark of ESPCI ParisTech).
40% of first-year students are women.
38% of students received scholarships to cover the cost of tuition in 2010 (objective : 30% in 2010, with the introduction of a separate scholarship scheme for ESPCI ParisTech).
750 hours of laboratory work during the first two years of the curriculum.
Years of study : 4 years, up to and including the engineering (ingénieur) degree
Registration fee (2010-11) : €150.
Tuition fee (2010-11) : €700 per year for non-bursary holders, payable the first 3 years only.
67 permanent teaching faculty : 21 Professors and 46 Lecturers.
17 research and teaching laboratories.
173 PhD students on the campus.
250 scientific researchers (affiliated with CNRS, UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, INSERM).
391 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (with an A ranking) in 2009 (more than one a day).
13,000 citations in peer-reviewed journals in 2009 (more than 35 a day).
56 patent applications filed in 2009 (more than one a week).
Founded in 1882, by the Paris City Council.
5 laureates won 6 Nobel Prizes (Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911).
18,000 m2 of space for classes and research laboratories.
900 people work, study, teach, and do research on the School’s Paris campus.