École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris | |
Type | Grandes Écoles |
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Established | 1896 |
Director | Christian Lerminiaux |
Location | , France 48°50′38″N 2°20′37″E / 48.84389°N 2.34361°E |
Campus | 5th arrondissement of Paris |
Affiliations | ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), IDEA League, Université PSL |
Website | www |
Chimie ParisTech, officially École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (National Great School of Chemistry of Paris) and also known as ENSCP or Chimie Paris, is a prestigious grande école and a constituent college of PSL Research University specialised in chemical science. It was founded in 1896 within the University of Paris and is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
Most of the students enter the school after highly competitive exams known as the Concours commun Mines-Ponts, following at least two years of classes préparatoires. There is also a small number of excellent students from French universities admitted to the school. Chimie ParisTech is known as France's most selective chemical engineering college[1]
The school is a research center hosting ten laboratories which conduct high level research in various fields of chemistry.