Collège des Ingénieurs Information

The Collège des Ingénieurs is a European institution created in 1986 which, every year, selects outstanding young engineers and scientists from European top universities and develops their management skills. Our education philosophy is genuinely innovative. We believe that there are some things that can only be understood by acting. This is especially true in the case of management. The management programme at the Collège des Ingénieurs is an innovative MBA programme: it is based on a unique development process of learning-through-action. It has been specially designed to prepare engineering and science graduates for most responsible positions in the world of business. During the programme and after, the industry partners are given a privileged access to the Collège´s very selective pool of young talented engineers and scientists. The Collège des Ingénieurs has acquired an enviable reputation for excellence in France and Germany and co-founded the prestigious Scuola di Alta Formazione al Management (SAFM) which has adopted the same model in Italy. The Collège searches for the unusual profile of the entrepreneur, capable of stimulating real innovation. This explains why the Collège is very selective, international and why it accepts only one hundred participants per year for all of its three sites (Paris, Munich and Turin) from among one thousand four hundred applications. Once accepted, the MBA programme participants become salaried employees of the Collège des Ingénieurs with a 10 month contract. This gives them free access to the series of intensive seminars and the “junior consultant” assignments within a chosen organization. The salary covers the cost of living. The Collège des Ingénieurs derives 100% of its revenues from the enterprise projects. The companies use the Collège as an external project support and thus to recruit talent.