Key figures

Teaching

  • 6000 student-engineers in studies
  • 1600 graduates per year.

Research

  • 120 laboratories
  • 1000 PhD students
  • 300 PhD vivas each year

Continuous education

Each year :

  • 300 internships
  • 30 000 hours of lectures, tutorials, practicals
  • 3000 interns

Chemistry

  • 4.4 million people in the world
  • 2 million people in Europe, in 25 000 companies
  • 239 500 people in France, in 1 200 companies

Employment

  • Our graduates have different jobs :
    • 50% in the domain of Research and Development (R&D)
    • 20% in the domain of production,
    • 17% in a study or advisory capacity.
  • 75% of the graduates work in the industrial sector
  • 90% of the graduates think that their job matches perfectly with their studies.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 was given Yves Chauvin ,a French researcher, working in one of the laboratories of one of the Schools in the Fédération Gay-Lussac.
The Nobel Prize is a distinction recognized throughout the world, and is the supreme distinction for a scientist.
www.nobelprize.org