The École des Mines of Saint-Étienne, located in two campuses, is one of the French \"Grandes Écoles\" and is a member of the Institut Mines Télécom.
Ranked as one of the top graduate schools of engineering of France, Mines Saint-Étienne draws its student intake from a competitive national examination and international recruitment.
This school is dedicated to training highly qualified engineers and to carrying out research to meet the needs of industry. Its mission is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the ICM initial training of generalist engineers, to specialized ISMIN formation to PhD teaching ; from material sciences to micro-electronics, the environment, computer science and health engineering. The school's expertise is based on a teaching that is both academic and directly related to the problems of the companies, and is supported by innovative pedagogy.
