École Centrale de Nantes, or Centrale Nantes, is a Grande Ecole d'Ingénieurs - a French engineering school - established in 1919 under the name of Institut Polytechnique de l'Ouest.
Its graduate, master and PhD programmes are based on the latest scientific and technological developments and the best management practices.
Centrale Nantes is consistently ranked within the top engineering schools in France - joint 6th out of the 168 French engineering schools in L'Etudiant 2017 ranking
Centrale Nantes is one of the members of the Ecoles Centrale Group alongside its partner institutions CentraleSupélec, Centrale Lille, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Marseille and Centrale Beijing.
It is also a member of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, that enables student exchanges among the leading engineering institutions in Europe.
