Our Institute has made a remarkable entry into the 2025 Shanghai Ranking (ARWU), placing 49th worldwide in the Aerospace Engineering category. This outstanding result rewards the academic excellence and research quality of ISAE-SUPAERO.
A unique school, recognised worldwide
This ranking underlines the strength of our integrated model, combining excellent training, cutting-edge multidisciplinary research and innovation. This success demonstrates the coherence and effectiveness of our educational and scientific project, as well as the power of our expertise, which is recognised the world over.
Research and innovation to meet technological challenges
This result is the fruit of an ongoing commitment to research excellence and innovation in the aerospace sector. Our laboratories, in collaboration with major industrial players, agencies and institutional bodies and the French Ministry of Defence, contribute directly to major technological advances, which are key to both progress and sovereignty.
Our research departments work with major industrial players, start-ups and SMEs, as well as with the major laboratories in our ecosystem. Our expertise covers the design and operation of aerospace vehicles, electronics, optronics and signals, complex systems engineering, aerodynamics, energy and propulsion, and the mechanics of structures and materials.
Henry de Plinval Director of Research and Educational ResourcesOutstanding successes
Our successes include :
- a laboratory with such mastery of optical space sensors that they are used in flight by the leading manufacturers in the field;
- a neuroergonomics laboratory whose equipment and excellence are unique in the world;
- skills and resources that are the national benchmark for aeronautical composites through our participation in the Institut Clément Ader;
- exceptional technical and human resources in aerodynamics and aeroacoustics;
- top-level developments in artificial intelligence, whether for decision support, learning, systems engineering or software verification and certification;
- major contributions to exceptional space missions, such as the first-ever measurement of sound on Mars.
Shared pride
This ranking is a great recognition for the entire ISAE-SUPAERO community: staff, lecturers, students, alumni, industrial and institutional partners. It rewards our daily commitment to training the best talent and pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in a sector that is as demanding as it is inspiring.
Marie-Hélène Baroux President of ISAE-SUPAERO
A reaffirmed ambition
By being listed in the ARWU Top 50 worldwide for Aerospace Engineering, our Institute has confirmed its status as a major player in research and innovation in a high-tech sector. On the strength of this result, our School is reaffirming its ambition to remain one of the world's leading aerospace engineering schools, while remaining true to our values of high standards, openness and innovation.
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