ENSAE Paris - École d'ingénieurs pour l'économie, la data science, la finance et l'actuariat

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Discover ENSAE's faculty

The teaching at ENSAE Paris is provided by :

  • ENSAE Paris teacher-researchers, whose research activities are carried out within CREST
  • Research professors from partner universities and schools
  • High-level professionals from the business world or public organizations

The teacher-researchers teach most of the basic lectures, especially the most academic courses. They conduct their research at CREST (Centre de recherche en économie et statistique), the joint ENSAE-X-CNRS-ENS research unit. The program also gives a large place to high-level professionals (banks, large companies, ministries, etc.), who teach courses directly related to the problems of companies. CNRS researchers and academics also teach at ENSAE Paris.

Discover research at ENSAE Paris

ENSAE Paris' academic recognition is based on the influence of its Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, the CREST (a joint research unit with the CNRS and the École Polytechnique). The research areas are: economics and econometrics; statistics and data science; finance and insurance; and quantitative sociology.

ENSAE is involved with CREST in publicly funded projects of excellence such as Labex Ecodec (with HEC), EUR Data EFM (with IP Paris and HEC), and IP Paris interdisciplinary centers (Hi! Paris in AI, E4C for the ecological transition), IP Paris disciplinary departments (mainly in economics and mathematics), the Jacques Hadamard Mathematical Foundation, multiple research chairs, and applied research projects such as the Institute for Public Policy.

The school's core courses are backed by research: they aim to provide ENSAE students with knowledge at the frontiers of research, enabling graduates to bring innovation to companies or public institutions. Starting in the second year, students who wish to do so can be introduced to research by choosing theoretical or applied projects supervised by CREST researchers, and thus benefit from an initial tutorial to prepare them for the choice of a subject and a research master's program in the third year. The most advanced students will be able to benefit from the Training through Research option, in order to facilitate the progress of their research project. They will have to submit a research project at the end of the second year.

Students can take a research master's degree in the third year and pursue a doctorate, notably in the CREST laboratories.

ENSAE students who choose to pursue a doctorate and academic research often succeed brilliantly.

ENSAE training benefits from a faculty and a high-level research environment, thanks to the presence on its premises of the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), a joint ENSAE-X-CNRS research unit. 

Discover the courses offered by ENSAE Paris

The engineering degree 

ENSAE Paris trains engineers specializing in mathematical modeling applied to economic and financial decision-making (for businesses, banks, insurance companies, and the government), to the analysis of social phenomena, and to the sciences of matter and life.

Training at ENSAE is based on the acquisition of applied mathematical tools for modeling economic and financial phenomena and for mastering data processing and analysis methods ("data science"), which are fundamental to the professions for which ENSAE prepares students. 

In the third year, six specialization tracks are offered, but it is possible within these tracks to choose from the 140 courses in the 3A course catalog (subject to schedule compatibility).

ENSAE has set up numerous double degrees with other prestigious schools (HEC, ESSEC, ESCP, ENS, Sciences Po, etc.).

The engineering curriculum is also compatible in the 3rd year with research Masters and PhD tracks that it operates or co-operates in the framework of the IP Paris.

Engineering students can continue their training at the doctoral level.

Advanced masters

The advanced skills acquired in the final year of the ENSAE engineering program are also used in "post-master's" programs, the specialized master's programs of the Conférence des grandes écoles, which are intended for students who already hold an M2 or a grande école diploma.

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AI: Hi! PARIS Symposium at ENSAE Paris

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Library

Located on the second floor of the school, the ENSAE Paris library offers a rich collection of documents, specializing in mathematics, economics, sociology, computer science, data science, finance, insurance and foreign languages. Paper documents and electronic resources (journals, databases and ebooks) are available to users.
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DataStorm, innovation through data

To meet the growing demand for expertise in the field of statistics, economics, data science and artificial intelligence, the Group of National Schools of Economics and Statistics (GENES) created in 2013 a private company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the group: DataStorm. DataStorm relies on a team of data scientist consultants who support the expertise of ENSAE Paris and ENSAI professors and researchers.
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Polytechnique Insights Review

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) has launched Polytechnique Insights, an online journal dedicated to understanding the challenges of research and innovation in the fields of science and technology, and in particular their socio-economic and environmental implications.
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Mathematical Foundation Jacques Hadamard

ENSAE Paris and CREST are respectively associate members and associate laboratories of the Jacques Hadamard Mathematical Foundation.
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Institute of Public Policies

ENSAE Paris and CREST are members of the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) created by the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and developed in the framework of a scientific partnership between PSE and the Group of National Schools of Economics and Statistics (GENES). The IPP aims to promote the quantitative analysis and evaluation of public policies using the most recent methods in economic research.
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Interdisciplinary Centers (IP Paris)

The Interdisciplinary Centers of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris combine the expertise of our researchers and our partners to address major societal problems through the complementary points of view and methodologies of each discipline. By crossing their views, their know-how and their methods in a spirit of openness, researchers bring original and innovative solutions to the major challenges of our century.
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Departements of education and research (IP Paris)

For three centuries, the five schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) have contributed to major scientific discoveries and technological revolutions. The quality of research at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is based on the pooling of their disciplinary expertise and their research infrastructures to push back the limits of knowledge.
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Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

The Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) is a joint research unit bringing together researchers in quantitative social sciences and applied mathematics from the CNRS, ENSAE Paris, and the economics department of the École Polytechnique. This interdisciplinary center dedicated to quantitative methods applied to social sciences is composed of four poles: economics, statistics, finance-insurance and sociology. The Palaiseau laboratories are located on the 3rd and 4th floors of the École Polytechnique building, thus facilitating exchanges between students and faculty.
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Research policy

ENSAE benefits from a first-rate research environment. It shares its premises with the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), to which ENSAE is historically attached. More broadly, it is part of the scientific framework of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and the Plateau de Saclay. The joint scientific project of ENSAE and CREST in this environment is characterized by research at the highest European level in their fields of excellence (statistics and data science, economics, sociology, finance and insurance), and by their culture of interdisciplinarity based on the modeling approach and the constant back-and-forth between theories and data.
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