Type Grandes Ecoles Website www.mines-stetienne.fr Phone +33 4 77 42 01 23 | Established 1816 Total enrollment 844 (2007) Founded 1816 | |
Affiliations The Institut Mines-Télécom (Mines Télécom Institut of Technology), Conférence des Grandes écoles Notable alumni Henri Fayol, Benoît Fourneyron, Xavier Hommaire de Hell Similar Mines ParisTech, Jean Monnet University, École nationale d'ingénie, École nationale supérieur, École centrale de Lyon Profiles | ||
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Etienne) (ENSMSE) is one of the French graduate engineering schools (Grandes Ecoles) training engineers and carrying out industry-oriented research. Its function is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the initial training of generalist engineers ingénieurs civils des mines, to PhD teaching; from material sciences to micro-electronics via process engineering, mechanics, the environment, civil engineering, finance, computer science and health engineering.
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History
The school was founded in 1816 by a decision of Louis XVIII (2 August 1816).
Admission for French students
For French nationals, admission to Civil Engineer of Mines is decided after competitive examination at the end of preparatory classes, a highly selective system.
Famous alumni
The puRkwa Prize
The puRkwa Prize is an "international prize for the scientific literacy of the children of the planet" awarded annually by the école nationale supérieure des mines of Saint Etienne and the French Academy of Sciences. The prize is awarded to pioneers in the innovation of general science education in school curricula for children less than 16 years of age. It was launched in 2004 at the initiative of Robert Germinet, the director of the école nationale supérieure des mines of Saint Etienne, and comes with an €80,000 monetary award.