Centrale Méditerranée


Centrale Méditerranée, formerly known as École Centrale de Marseille, is a graduate school of engineering located in Marseille, the second largest city in France. Centrale Méditerranée was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions and has its origins from the École d'Ingénieurs de Marseille founded in 1891. As a successor school of the latter, it is one of the oldest French engineering Grande école, and is amongst the best engineering school of France.
It is one of the prestigious Centrale Graduate Schools and a member of the TIME network.
From its creation, Centrale Méditerranée trains highly skilled and versatile engineers, recruited since 2004 through a nationwide highly competitive exam shared with the other Centrale Graduate Schools.
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Academic profile

Centrale Méditerranée is a multidisciplinary school, where the great majority of the students have endured two or three years of intensive maths and physics training in order to train for the Concours Centrale-Supélec.
As future general engineers, students do not have any particular major before the last year, during which they have to choose among a few electives:
The students can also complete their last year in one of the other Centrale Graduate Schools or be part of an exchange program.
There are three-years PhD programs available in all the aforementioned domains of research.

Exchange programs

Being a part of the TIME network, the school has exchange program with many universities across the world, among them :

Research

Eight research laboratories are under the joint leadership of Ecole Centrale Marseille and Aix-Marseille University :
  • Laboratory for Mechanics and Acoustics
  • Fresnel Institute
  • Institute of Research on Non Equilibrium Phenomena
  • Institute of Molecular Sciences of Marseille
  • Mechanics, Modelling and Clean Processes
  • Research Group in Quantitative Economics of Aix-Marseille
  • Laboratory of Analysis, Topology, and Probability
  • Laboratory of Fundamental Computer Science

Rankings

Centrale Méditerranée is ranked among the top 20 French Grandes Ecoles, though it does not appear in international rankings due to its very limited number of students.

Alumni

The alumni network has about 16,000 members worldwide.

Notable alumni