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