Ecole Polytechnique is one of the 204 French engineering schools accredited as of 1 September 2020 to award a diplome d'ingenieur.
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13 Facts About Ecole Polytechnique
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In 1817, Ecole polytechnique was reorganized by an order from king Louis XVIII.
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In 1970, the Ecole Polytechnique became a state-supported civilian institution under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence.
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In 1976, the Ecole Polytechnique moved from central Paris to Palaiseau in the southern suburbs.
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Ecole Polytechnique is a higher education establishment running under the supervision of the French Ministry of Defence, through the General Directorate for Armament .
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Ecole Polytechnique has a combined undergraduate-graduate general engineering teaching curriculum as well as a graduate school.
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Contrary to French public universities, the teaching staff at Ecole Polytechnique are not civil servants but contract employees operating under regulations different from those governing university professors.
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An originality of Ecole Polytechnique is that, in addition to full-time teaching staff, who do research at the Ecole in addition to a full teaching service, there are part-time teaching staff who do not do research on behalf of the Ecole and carry only a partial teaching load.
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The reason for this is that the generic education given at Ecole Polytechnique is more focused on developing thinking skills than preparing for the transition to an actual engineering occupation, which requires further technical education.
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Those who pursue this path are known as X-Mines, X-Ponts, X-Telecoms and X-INSEE, respectively, with the X prefix, for Ecole Polytechnique, identifying them as the most particularly top qualified elite members of Corps among all other graduates of the Ecole Polytechnique.
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French nationals who gain admission to Ecole Polytechnique, tuition is free as long as the full curriculum is completed, and additional monetary allowance is received throughout the school years at the level of a reserve officer in training.
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In international rankings, the Ecole Polytechnique is ranked 61st worldwide by the QS World University Rankings 2021, and 93rd worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020.
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French, including Ecole Polytechnique, are criticized for being "elitist" and therefore lacking diversity within its students' cohorts.
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