Organization of studies

**ENSAIA, ENSEM, ENSG, ENSIC, ENSMN are 3-year schools. Access to these schools is for students who have followed a French two-year polytechnic course and passed a national competitive examination or the CPP course *ENSGSI and EEIGM are 5-year schools with a specific polytechnic course in the first two years. Access to these schools is for students who have passed a national competitive examination at the end of high school studies Students holding an engineering diploma have direct access to PhD studies on condition that they have completed a research project in their last year of studies instead of an industrial internship.