Welcome to IPSA!
About IPSA
IPSA is a 5-year graduate school in Paris, specializing in aeronautical and space systems.
There are 3 years of the Bachelor Cycle and 2 years of the Expert Cycle. With 850 students at IPSA, there are actually more than 120 graduates per year.
At IPSA, you will acquire a knowledge in sciences and an effective approach of engineering work (aeronautics, engines, mechanics, IT Systems, embedded systems, mechatronics and electronics). At the same time, you will strengthen your communication skills (human resources, French and English and quality management) while keeping in close contact with the French industrial environment through required internships and industrial projects.
During the five years of graduate education at IPSA, internships are highly encouraged in the first two years, while they are required in the final three years.
A has around 100 professors who are largely drawn (70%) from positions in the industrial field. There are ten laboratories at IPSA, comprised of research, electronics, and mechanics laboratories.
A Parisian Location…
IPSA, you will study on a campus located just outside of Paris. You will enjoy the benefits of a small suburb, plus the advantages of being 20 minutes away from Paris, the City of Lights. Studying at IPSA, you will gain some insight into the cultural differences that you may face someday as engineers working in multinational companies. Challenges are numerous and study intense, but there's always time for sightseeing.
City of Paris offers an incomparable wealth of history, art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music and dance to the students who choose to make it their home abroad. The richness of cultural life there extends from opera to jazz clubs, through beautiful public parks to museums and cafés.
Hemingway wrote of the "moveable feast" that is Paris. Each student will find the places and people that bring that definition to life. Most students agree that their most disappointing experience in Paris was having to leave.
International at IPSA
IPSA actively encourages student exchange and international partnerships. Students are also encouraged to spend their internship periods abroad. Competence in the English language is compulsory and all students prepare to take the TOEIC Exam which is offered free to Erasmus students.
IPSA also proposes free intensive French courses for International exchange students, one week of intensive classes at the beginning of the year and weekly classes throughout the first semester. Students also have the option to study Chinese and Russian language.
Constructed as a synthesis of cultures associated with the high level of engineering courses, the option will give students an international perspective, useful for the knowledge and experience of future managers and engineers.
IPSA’s Erasmus Partners
IPSA currently has exchange partnerships with the "Laval University in Canada, the "Shenyang Aerospace University (SAU), China, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Kumaragu Technical College, India, and nearly 20 Erasmus partners in Europe:
| Partner | WebSite |
|---|---|
| Fachhochshule Aachen | www.fh-aachen.de |
| Polytechnic of Turin | www.polito.it |
| University of Stuttgart | www.uni-stuttgart.de |
| Fachhochshule Munich | www.fh-muenchen.de |
| University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ | www.uniroma1.it |
| Polytechnic University of Madrid | www.aero.upm.es |
| University of Oulu | www.oulu.fi |
| University of Patras | www.upatras.gr |
| Technological and Economic University of Budapest | www.bme.hu |
| University of Liege | www.ulg.ac.be |
| University of Naples ‘Federico II’ | www.unina.it |
| Polytechnic of Milan | www.polimi.it |
| University of Beira interior | www.ubi.pt |
| Technological University of Liberec | www.vslib.cz |
| Technological University of Istanbul | www.itu.edu.tr |
| University of Pais Vasco | www.ehu.es |
| Technological University of Warsaw | www.pw.edu.pl |
| Technological University of Ostrava | www.vsb.cz |
| University of Afyon Kocatepe | www.aku.edu.tr |
You are an international student who would like to spend one or two semesters
Please check that your university is listed above, or contact your international department to ask them if it is possible to make a new agreement with IPSA.
You can then download the International exchange Student Application Form, and send it, with authorization from your university, to the International department of IPSA by the following deadlines:
- the next autumn semester: 30th of June 2010
- the next spring semester: 30th of November 2011
