Ecole Normale Superieure Paris

France

Ecole Normale Superieure is a public university which was established in 1974. The university is located in Paris, France. The university has one of the most selective and prestigious French higher education systems. The university has strong partnerships with many universities and centres, some of these include; Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris-Diderot University, Paris-Sorbonne University, the Centre for advanced research in social sciences, the Centre for advanced studies in sciences, humanities and theology and many more.

Ecole Normale Superieure has two faculties; Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Science. The Faculty of Letter comprises eight departments; Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of History and Theory of Arts, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, Department of Geography and Territory, and the Department of Literature and Languages. The faculty of Science comprises seven departments; Department of mathematics, Department of physics, Department of computer science, Department of chemistry, Department of biology, Department of Geoscience and cognitive science.

Ecole Normale Superieure has more than 2,400 students, which include 300 undergraduate students, 1,400 Graduate students, and 700 Doctoral students. The university has more than 1,400 faculty members. 

Ecole Normale Superieure provides scholarship opportunities to the students on the basis of academic excellence. The university comprises a library whose main part is in open access for researchers, the Humanities Library Ulm-Jourdan is a hotspot for research in humanities and social sciences. The library is rich of 800,000 volumes, 2,000 subscriptions to print-based journals and to 18,000 electronic journals, and also offers online access to 100 databases, on-site and remote services, as well as computing resources training. 

Notable Alumni: Évariste Galois (Mathematics and physics), Pierre Brossolette (Journalist), Édouard Herriot (Politician)