École Centrale Paris offers an original curriculum in the very first year for each Thematic Field in Master.

• Educational training in M1 at Centrale Paris is fundamental, multidisciplinary and science-based, and relies mainly on the Common Core curriculum offered to engineering students.
• Training lies on a strong industrial basis, namely the historic network of Centrale Paris.
• Training has a unique international anchor via the T.I.M.E. network.
• M1 is based on the curriculum of first and second year at Centrale Paris, bringing a degree of specialization and deepening, and a strong focus on personal work and training in research laboratory (École Centrale Paris, partner institutions, industrial laboratories).
• Specialization in M2 is through a series of personal and scalable choices, based on a coherent training project. This degree course will be validated with the help of a confirmed teaching tutor. This initiative will apply to both engineering students and students from other institutions.
• International openness is a priority for the Master, as well as for the engineering training. Through the prevailing existing international network, sustainable partnership will be established and strengthened in "training via research", with the emphasis on students' incentive mobility (and teachers' or tutors' exchanges).
• International experience places Centrale Paris first rank in language learning during educational training.
• Emphasis will be placed on enterprise research in the first year. This will be done through lectures, visits, projects, specific training for business, introduction to scientific value and innovation.
• Master at Centrale Paris should contribute to a valuation of work around research, and harmonization between industrial research and public research.

Structure and Organization

Specificities for each M1 are specified by a Thematic Field.

The organization of the four projects has been optimized for harmonization in relation to the structure of the common core of engineering degree course.

• The academic year is divided in two semesters, each credited with 30 ECTS.
• Each semester consists of core courses, distributed in a "major" and "minor" discipline. Application course or further studies are elective, multidisciplinary-oriented, and give a solid and pragmatic basis in fundamental knowledge while developing personal initiative. To this, numerical simulation and experimental activities are added. Customized language activities (English or French). Finally, initiation activities for careers in research and innovation, especially in business.
• The research project, conducted in a laboratory at Centrale Paris, or in a partner institution or industry, is carried out over two semesters and plays a fundamental role in training. It results in a partial evaluation at the end of each semester, and then an overall assessment.
• Each semester must be validated to permit subsequent access to M2.

Eligibility for M2: Requirements are huge but wholly justified, with the will to train students into performing career prospects, and to reach a high rate of employment on completion of the thesis.