POLYTECH LILLE : a University Graduate School of Engineering
The UNIVERSITY OF LILLE : the French comprehensive university of Northwestern Europe
Polytech Lille is a well-known graduate school of engineering which belongs to the University of Lille, a comprehensive university located in the north of France in the triangle between London, Paris and Brussels.
Over the past years, the University of Lille has increasingly places its international outlook at the heart of its administration, academic programmes and research.
With 80,000 students and 10,000 foreign students welcomed each year, the University of Lille atracts many students thanks to a dynamic academic environment enriched by the proximity of international universities. It offers a truly European experience to all international students.
The quality of its research has been widely recognized. With its 64 laboratories, 3 300 researchers and research professors, as well as 1,800 doctorates, the university’s many research groups, networks and facilities contribute to effective multidisciplinary research.
A large offer of engineering degree courses
With 350 engineering graduates each year and more than 10,000 alumni (graduate engineers), Polytech Lille offers nine engineering degree courses, 5 degree courses in apprenticeship, three specialized masters and one English-taught international master.
At the heart of a high-level research environment in a large scientific and technical pole
With 172 research and academic staff, Polytech Lille offers state of the art courses that are at the cutting edge of new technologies. The research activities are carried out in 13 research laboratories (9 of which are associated to the CNRS). The school hosts 120 doctoral students.
Close relationships with companies
Various companies are present in different levels of management of the school.
Polytech Lille has developed more than 3,600 industrial contacts and 350 lecturers come from the socio-economic world (industrialists, managers, engineers…).
The engineering students undertake at least 26 weeks of internship as part of the study programme.
A « Grande Ecole » and founder member of the Polytech group
Polytech Lille belongs to the largest network of graduate engineering schools in France « the Polytech group ». This group of 15 graduate schools of engineering in France share a common student recruitment and admission process.
The education offer of the Polytech group consists of 100 curricula classified in 12 engineering fields.
