PhD Programs

The merger of École polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, Télécom SudParis and École nationale des ponts et chaussées within the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) makes it possible to offer a very high-level PhD training program reflecting the excellence of the founding schools that have chosen to join forces. The Institut Polytechnique de Paris has two doctoral schools: the IP Paris Multidisciplinary Doctoral School (ED IP Paris), co-accredited with HEC Paris and the Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics (EDMH), co-accredited with the University of Paris-Saclay and Université PSL.

Why do a thesis at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris?

Being recognised internationally, a degree of excellence and a marker of a very high level of expertise, the doctorate opens up opportunities to highly qualified jobs in the public and private sectors. In addition to access to the academic world, it opens up major long-term career opportunities, based on the particular skills acquired during the doctorate and widely recognised in the socio-economic world for highly qualified jobs.

The IP Paris Doctoral School offers an extreme wealth of education, a reflection of its founding schools, ranging from basic research to applied research. Very open as regards the international aspect, 45% of its doctoral students come from foreign countries and thus testify to its attractiveness at the global level.
Through its excellence and ambition, the programme of the Doctoral School of IP Paris prepares its students for extraordinary scientific careers, both in the academic sector and in industry, in France and abroad.

The IP Paris Doctoral School currently hosts a thousand doctoral students, supervised by more than 800 teacher-researchers (including 550 authorised to supervise research) grouped together in 30 research laboratories.

What are the PhD programs?

Two avenues are open for obtaining the title of doctor from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris: the classic three-year doctorate course in many fields, and the 5-year PhD Track, for holders of a bachelor's degree or diploma who already wish to focus on a doctorate at the end of their masters’ course.

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