Founded in 1794, the École Polytechnique, a state supported institution of higher education and research, is the most prestigious engineering Grande Ecole in France. The École trains the scientific, industrial and economic elite of the nation.

Exceptional scientists, many of whose names are now attached to fundamental laws and concepts, have walked its halls as students or professors over the last two centuries.

Today the École has: 1902 students in the "Polytechnicien" cursus of 4 years, 330 students in the doctoral school, 380 professors, 10 departments and 23 laboratories, is settled on a campus covering 445 acres and about 3200 people.

• École Polytechnique, Centre de Mathématiques
• École Polytechnique, Centre de Physique Théorique
• École Polytechnique, International Center for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology
• Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA-Centre del'Yvette
• Organic Synthesis Laboratory, École Polytechnique

• École Polytechnique