The Federation

The Fédération Gay-Lussac brings together 19 French chemistry and chemical engineering schools.

These 19 schools, through their teaching, research and continuing education, work together to make known, develop and promote courses in chemistry and chemical engineering. This is done in order to offer you an education course which is as complete as possible!

We hope that among these 19 schools, you will find the one of your dreams, and that chemistry, a sector with a great future, leading to numerous employment possibilities, linked to the concept of sustainable development, will attract you and offer the professional perspectives that you are looking for and which correspond to you.

An engineering school is:

  • A 5-year higher education course (HE 5): 2 years of « classes préparatoires », integrated or not, or a university degree, followed by 3 years in engineering studies. 
  • A scientific education of high level, completed by social science courses: management, quality, health and safety, human relations, communication, and of course languages and international culture. 
  • Progressive entry to professional life, through numerous contacts with companies, internships, recruitment forums … 
  • An international study environment: through agreements with foreign universities, international internship offers, two obligatory languages: English and a second language … 
  • The possibility of following a path oriented towards research, by doing a « Master’s in research » at the same time as the final year (year 5) then a PhD thesis. 
  • And of course a very rich extra-curricular life with associations, clubs, events, evening parties…!

The chemistry domain: numerous employment possibilities

In France, chemistry is the 2nd most important sector of industrial activity, after the automobile industry and before the agro-food sector. It represents a turnover of 93.5 billion euros. It is a very vast discipline where innovation is essential, and which can be found in a number of business sectors: health, beauty/cosmetics, safety and the environment, energy, agro-food, sport, buildings, automobile, electronics, nuclear, computing… The chemical industry manufactures our everyday products: all objects based on plastic, technical materials (textiles, sports materials…) or in construction (insulation, paints …), medicines, cosmetic products, and products improving vegetal production … The engineers coming from the schools in the Fédération Gay-Lussac (FGL) are therefore present in all the large industrial and socio-economic sectors, where they work in research, development, engineering, production, control, and technical and marketing development... Chemistry is for all talents!

All the schools in the FGL give a sound education in the general aspects of chemistry and chemical engineering. Each school also offers options and specializations, covering all domains.

Don’t hesitate! Discover the FGL by going to the site découverte the 19 Schools.
To discover the jobs in chemistry, our qualified chemists and engineers from the different schools of the FGL offer their personal account of their studies and professional experience. Discover the career paths of our engineers on: career paths.
You can also consult the site: http://www.lesmetiersdelachimie.com/ (french website).

The wide domains of chemistry taught in the engineering schools:

  • Organic chemistry: or the chemistry in life and everyday life 
  • Analytical chemistry: or how to analyze products, and matter (water, air…) with the help of very sophisticated apparatus. 
  • Chemistry of materials: or how chemistry contributes to the materials of the future. 
  • Chemical engineering: or how to go from the molecule to the industrial scale.