A breeding ground for talent
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Saint-Étienne Métropole is a strategic centre for training engineers and specialised managers. Engineering schools, sandwich courses, cutting-edge laboratories and sector-specific expertise (nuclear, photonics, industrial engineering, digital, etc.) train operational profiles every year, directly in line with the needs of industry.

Mines Saint-Étienne
- Founded in 1816
- Member of the Institut Mines Télécom
- Civil, nuclear, industrial and energy valorisation engineering
ENISE
National School of Engineers of Saint-Étienne
- École interne de Centrale Lyon (LTDS)
- Groupe des Écoles Centrale Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Physical Engineering


TELECOM Saint-Étienne
- Affiliated with the Institut Mines-Télécom, internal to Jean Monnet University and a member of the University of Lyon.
- A generalist digital school with 3 research laboratories and a university research school.
IRUP
Polytechnic University Regional Institute
- Engineering schools offering work/study programmes at Baccalaureate plus 2 or plus 5 years of study
- Industrial Engineering, Nuclear Facilities Engineering,
- Energy Valorisation and Embedded Electronic Systems.
- 7 areas of expertise :
- Industrial performance
- Innovative building
- Nuclear Institute of Technology NIT®
- Social Economy
- Strategy and management
- Accounting expertise


ISTP
Higher Institute of Performance Techniques
- Engineering schools offering work/study programmes at Baccalaureate plus 2 or plus 3 years of study
- 1 Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 5 specialised engineering courses :
- Energy
- Embedded Electronic Systems
- Industrial Engineering,
- Nuclear Facilities Engineering,
- Mechanics and Mechatronics.
IOGS
Institut d’Optique Graduate School
World leader in photonics training, research and innovation: “Light, from nanoscience to space and from atoms to lasers”
3 campuses in France :
- Paris-Saclay
- Bordeaux
- Saint-Étienne


Jean Monnet university
- 20 000 students
- 5 campuses
- Hubert Curien Laboratory: UJM-IOGS-CNRS France research unit
- Polymer Materials Engineering Laboratory (PME)
- 90 researchers and teachers, 20 engineers and other staff
- Scientific research departments :
- Optics/photonics,
- Surfaces and new technologies,
- Security,
- Data intelligence
NIT ® trains
39%
of engineers in the
french nuclear
industry
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