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The Graduate School
The École's strategy is to consolidate these diplomas around "flagship Master's courses" in key domains, based on the expertise of internationally-known professors, such as: bio-I.T.; molecular chemistry; finance (financial mathematics, quantitative economics); innovative engineering interfaces; complex systems engineering; innovation management; mathematics and modelling; mechanics & energetics; theoretical physics, lasers, fusion; materials science (nano-objects, sustainable materials).
The Campaign will help to finance:
- The coordination of each Master's course by a resident teacher responsible for setting up and developing the course and for its educational management,
- Extra courses in languages, French civilisation and humanities, project management and knowledge of company life.
- The monitoring of each student by a tutor.
- Three scholarships a year awarded for excellence to French non-Polytechnique students (grants for foreign students come under Theme 3 of the Campaign).
The Doctoral School
The doctorate is the 3rd level of training offered by École Polytechnique. Recognized as France's best engineering diploma, the Ecole Polytechnique Doctorate should be a doctorate of excellence.
To attract the most brilliant doctoral students, we need to offer them the most attractive conditions: the scientific quality of the laboratories, quality accommodation and courses, and a level of grants and scholarships that makes the difference in the face of increasingly fierce competition between international universities.
The Campaign will finance three scholarships a year awarded for excellence, worth more than the allowances currently on offer from the government or the School itself. Each scholarship covers the 3 years of the doctorate. The Campaign will also set up an international aid fund to enable doctoral students to spend several months abroad as part of their thesis.