Ensae Paristech

The ''École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique'' (ENSAE) is one of the leading French institutions of higher learning in the fields of statistics, economics, finance and actuarial science. ENSAE is a founder member of the Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech), together with some of France's most prestigious graduate schools of engineering (the so-called ''Grandes écoles''). ENSAE has close links with the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), one of France's leading research centers in the fields of economics, statistics and finance. More recently, ENSAE and CREST became associate members of the Paris School of Economics (PSE). Indeed, ENSAE has long been closely involved in the main graduate research program of PSE, the master Analyse et Politique Économiques, for which the school contributes a significant number of courses. University partnerships extend to all fields of excellence of ENSAE-CREST : economics, statistics and finance. ENSAE’s teaching staff includes some of the country's foremost specialists in their fields. Most lecturers at ENSAE are researchers or academics, but many are professionals working in large public or private corporations. About a hundred and fifty students graduate each year from ENSAE, having completed a program comparable to the first year of study for a North-American Ph.D. or a top-level North-American Master's Degree in Economics or Statistics. Two thirds of ENSAE graduates join banks or insurance companies. Many of the others obtain academic positions or work as consultants or auditors. Over fifty percent of ENSAE graduates work in the field of finance. The academic background of ENSAE students is extremely varied. Some are admitted through a competitive examination taken after two or three years in the post-secondary school preparatory programmes (classes préparatoires). Others are graduates of the top French higher education establishments, such as the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole Normale Supérieure or other Grandes Ecoles (graduate schools). Others are university graduates in economics and/or mathematics. ENSAE also welcomes foreign students who have graduated from institutions of comparable standards in their own countries. Depending on their background and needs, these students can be directly admitted either into the first or second year of the mainstream three-year program leading to ENSAE degree, or into the fifteen-month graduate programme leading to the Mastère Spécialisé de Modélisation Economique et Statistique. Ph.D. students who have passed their qualifying examinations can join the CREST to work on their dissertation.

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