École Polytechnique

École polytechnique (also accepted by the appellation "X") is a French accessible academy of college apprenticeship and research, amid in Palaiseau abreast Paris. It is one of the French Grandes écoles,and is acclaimed for its four-year undergraduate Ingénieur Polytechnicien amount in science and engineering.Polytechnique is accepted for its acutely aggressive access assay university-level alertness in mathematics and physics or afterwards a Bachelor of Science (Licence in French apprenticeship system).It is one of the a lot of careful French engineering schools.The boilerplate bacon of graduates of École Polytechnique was appear at £74,000 ($115,440), accomplished in Europe.

Polytechnique was accustomed in 1794 by the mathematician Gaspard Monge during the French Revolution, and became a aggressive academy beneath Napoleon I in 1804. Today, the academy still runs beneath the administration of the French admiral of Defence. Initially amid in the Latin Quarter of axial Paris, the enactment was confused in 1976 to Palaiseau on the Saclay Plateau, southwest of Paris.

Polytechnique is a founding affiliate of ParisTech, a alignment of arch Paris-area engineering colleges accustomed in 2007. In 2014 it became a founding affiliate of the confederal "University of Paris-Saclay". Among its alumni are three Nobel cost winners, one Fields Medalist, three Presidents of France and abounding CEOs of French and all-embracing companies.

History

The cadets of Polytechnique rushed to the defence of Paris adjoin the adopted armies in 1814. A bronze set in the honour courtyard of the academy commemorates this deed. A archetype was installed in West Point.

Polytechnique has added than 200 years of tradition:

1794: The École centrale des travaux publics is founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, during the French Revolution, at the time of the National Convention. It is renamed "École polytechnique" one year later.

1805: Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte settles the École on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the Quartier Latin, in axial Paris

Pierre and Marie Curie University

Pierre and Marie Curie University (French: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie; abbreviated UPMC), aswell accepted as University of Paris VI, is a accessible analysis university and was accustomed in 1971 afterward the analysis of the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and is a arch beneficiary to Faculty of Sciences of the Sorbonne (French: Faculté des sciences de Paris), although it can trace its roots aback to 1109 and the Abbey of St Victor.
The university is amid on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. The French cultural anarchy of 1968, frequently accepted as "the French May", resulted in the analysis of the world's additional oldest bookish institution, the University of Paris, into thirteen free universities.

UPMC is the better accurate and medical circuitous in France, alive in abounding fields of analysis with ambit and achievements at the accomplished level, as approved by the abounding awards consistently won by UPMC researchers, and the abounding all-embracing partnerships it maintains beyond all 5 continents.Several university rankings accept consistently put UPMC at the 1st abode in France, and it has been ranked as one of the top universities in the world. The ARWU (2014) has ranked UPMC as the 1st in France, 6th in Europe and 35th in the apple and aswell 4th in acreage of mathematics, 25th in acreage of physics, 14th in acreage of accustomed sciences and 32nd in acreage of engineering, technology and computer science.

It has added than 125 laboratories, a lot of of them in affiliation with the Centre civic de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of its a lot of notable institutes and laboratories cover the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (shared with University Paris-Diderot) and the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared with École Normale Supérieure).

The University's Faculty of Medicine Pierre and Marie Curie is amid in the teaching hospitals Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine (the closing itself getting the almsman to Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey).

UPMC delivers a authority in physics in English, back September 2013 for Université Paris-Sorbonne Abou Dhabi