Mines Paris – PSL
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris | |
| Motto | Théorie et Pratique |
|---|---|
Motto in English | Theory and Practice |
| Type | Grande école d'ingénieurs (public research university Engineering school) |
| Established | 1783 |
Academic staff | 286 permanent research professors |
| Students | 1,281 students 37% international |
| Location | , France 48°50′42″N 2°20′21″E / 48.844952°N 2.339193°E |
| Campus | Paris, Fontainebleau, Évry, Sophia Antipolis |
| Language | English-only & French-only instruction |
| Affiliations | Conférence des Grandes écoles Université PSL Institut Mines-Télécom ParisTech Carnot M.I.N.E.S Armines Groupe des Écoles des mines |
| Website | www |
The Mines Paris – PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, also known as École des mines de Paris, is a French grande école and a constituent college of PSL University. It was originally established in 1783 by King Louis XVI.
Mines Paris is distinguished for the outstanding performance of its research centers and the quality of its international partnerships with other prestigious universities in the world, which include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Harvard SEAS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS), Novosibirsk State University, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Tokyo Tech.
Mines Paris also publishes a world university ranking based on the number of alumni holding the post of CEO in one of the 500 largest companies in the world: the Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities. The school is a member of the ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology) alliance.