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ISAE-SUPAERO launches its Student Life Master Plan for 2026–2031

Publication Date

14 January 2026

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Student life

Having a rich, fulfilling, and globally minded student life is part of ISAE-SUPAERO's DNA. To further enhance this experience, the Institute has now adopted a Student Life Master Plan (SDVE) for the period 2026-2031, a unique roadmap that embodies its strategic vision and supports its ambition: to offer an attractive, inclusive living environment that is conducive to the success of every student.

Four main themes

The result of a wide-ranging participatory process involving students, staff and partners, the SDVE is based on four main themes:

Living on a pleasant and inclusive campus
Enjoying student life in complete safety
Getting involved in school life by being supported and valued
Interacting with the ecosystem to better invest in the future

This plan marks a turning point in the way the Institut thinks about campus life, student life and community life: from now on, these dimensions will be built together, coordinated and aligned around common objectives. It strengthens existing initiatives, encourages synergies and guides new innovative projects to enhance attractiveness and well-being.

Supported by the General Management and the Deputy Management in charge of student life, the SDVE will form a long-term part of the next Objectives and Performance Contract (2027-2031). Based on an analysis of students’ experiences, studies carried out (including Happy@School) and signals from the ecosystem, it is intended to evolve regularly in order to remain as close as possible to expectations.

A strong commitment to social and environmental responsibility

This master plan is part of ISAE-SUPAERO’s commitment to society and the environment. It is a response to the various CSR initiatives undertaken in areas such as training, research, innovation and campus life.

In addition, the Institute applies a zero-tolerance policy to acts of harassment, discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence, with numerous initiatives to prevent and deal with such acts.

Figures for the start of the 2025 academic year at ISAE-SUPAERO

Publication Date

07 October 2025

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Institute

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Aerospace

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At the start of the 2025 academic year, ISAE-SUPAERO is welcoming nearly 882 new students from all disciplines!

ISAE-SUPAERO offers a range of courses designed to meet the major challenges facing our societies.

And there is no shortage of interest, as evidenced by the renewed attractiveness of its courses!

Figures for 2025

832 new students, including 38% international students representing 55 nationalities
350 General Engineering students
36 Industrial Engineering for Aeronautics and Space students
160 Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering students
200 Specialised Masters® students
86 PhD students

ISAE-SUPAERO’s training programmes ensure that young graduates find exceptional employment, in line with their expectations.

According to the Institute’s 2025 “First Job” survey, 70% of graduates from all courses find a job even before graduation, and 84% say they are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their first job.

The Aeronautics/Space/Defence (ASD) sector, buoyed by strong growth momentum and engaged in an exceptional period of transformation, attracted 77% of our young 2024 graduates, all courses combined.

Next came energy (4%) and finance/audit/insurance, followed by ecological transition (3%).

ISAE-SUPAERO renews cooperation agreements with ITA and São Paulo institutions

Publication Date

12 June 2025

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Education

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Aerospace

Education

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Partnership

Marie-Hélène Baroux, Director General of ISAE-SUPAERO, emphasised the strategic importance of this partnership:

“This collaboration with the ITA and the institutions of São Paulo is an essential lever for developing innovative projects in key areas such as artificial intelligence applied to aeronautics, sustainability and new technologies. It offers our students and researchers invaluable opportunities to become fully involved in the challenges of tomorrow’s aerospace sector”.

This renewal brings with it a number of important commitments:

For students, it guarantees an expansion of exchange programmes, with a desire to further enrich exchanges between France and Brazil.
For researchers, it means greater openness to innovative collaborative projects, particularly in areas of the future such as artificial intelligence applied to aeronautics, environmental sustainability and new materials.
For ISAE-SUPAERO, it is an additional lever to strengthen its international attractiveness and confirm its major role in training engineers capable of meeting the challenges of the sector.

For more than twenty years, ISAE-SUPAERO and ITA have been developing joint programmes, in particular the BRAFITEC double degree, which enables students to acquire unique international and bicultural expertise. This renewal bears witness to the vitality and relevance of this cooperation in a global context marked by major technological and environmental challenges.

This cooperation is also part of a strong scientific dynamic between France and the State of São Paulo, with almost 10,000 joint publications in six years, demonstrating effective international synergy.

” Scientific and technological cooperation between the two regions is strong and growing. Over the last six years, French and Paulo researchers have jointly published 9,800 scientific articles, which represents 52% of all articles published as part of international collaborations during this period “, emphasised Marco Antonio Zago, President of the FAPESP.

The renewal of the agreements illustrates the strength of this transatlantic scientific cooperation, which continues to develop and diversify. It also testifies to the commitment and common vision shared by the participants in FAPESP Week France 2025, including Marco Antonio Zago, President of FAPESP, Marie-Hélène Baroux, Director General of ISAE-SUPAERO, Vahan Agopyan, Secretary for Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of São Paulo, and Odile Rauzy, Rector of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier University, who summed up the challenge: ” Together, moving in the same direction, we will be stronger at a crucial time for science “.

Launch of the new ISAE-SUPAERO website: our showcase for excellence!

Publication Date

03 June 2025

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Aerospace

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ISAE-SUPAERO renews itself

🌍 Fluid navigation for all our audiences

We have redesigned the architecture of our website to provide a clear, intuitive experience tailored to each of our visitors: future students, researchers, industrial partners and the media.

Thanks to fluid, responsive navigation, you can quickly access essential content – our courses, our expertise, our projects – wherever you are in the world.

🎯A user experience at the heart of our approach

When designing this site, we put ourselves in the shoes of our users. We’ve simplified navigation, structured information logically and optimised access to key services.

In just a few clicks, you’ll find what you’re looking for… and much more besides! We’ll be with you every step of the way, from first contact to application.

✨A modern design serving our image

We have chosen a sober, elegant and dynamic interface, true to our evolving brand image. The design highlights our community, our campus, our research and our vision of engineering.

Every visual element helps to convey the energy, excellence and passion that drive us.

♿ Accessibility, performance and web quality on the agenda

Our website complies with international accessibility (RGAA) and performance (Opquast, Web Vitals) standards.

It guarantees everyone – whatever their situation or medium – fluid, fast and inclusive browsing. Because openness and rigour are part of our DNA, we have placed high standards at the heart of the project.

Explore, discover and get involved with us!

🔎 Our new website is just like you: curious, demanding and open to the world.

We invite you to plunge into the world of ISAE-SUPAERO, to discover our programmes, our research projects and our international campus.

This website is yours too!

👉 Explore it now and get in touch with our team to give us your feedback or find out more about our Institute: we can't wait to meet you!

Our Core Foundations

Publication Date

10 March 2025

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Aerospace

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“ISAE-SUPAERO is the leading engineering school in the field of aeronautics and space, in particular through the ISAE Group, which brings together 9 French aerospace engineering schools and offers a wide range of programmes dedicated to the field (engineering, Master, Advanced Master, and doctorate).

Joining ISAE-SUPAERO means benefiting from a world-class education with research and innovation central to strategic sectors of the future.

We are committed to a sustainable future, with an in-depth transformation of our teaching and research to include climate and societal issues. We are convinced of the important role of engineers and scientists in building a stable and inclusive world.

Since 2020, we have been deploying a concrete strategy based on flagship projects of international scope, coordinating initiatives with academic players in Toulouse and placing our resources and results at the service of society and European sovereignty.

As a fervent advocate of diversity in the service of innovation and society, we are also taking proactive steps to welcome students from a wide range of social backgrounds by awarding grants and supporting young people of all genders in high schools.

ISAE-SUPAERO is under the authority of the French Ministry of Armed Forces and is also a partner of the Ecole Polytechnique, HEC, and Sciences Po Paris. We have connections with more than 100 prestigious universities worldwide. More than 40% of our 1,900 students on campus come from outside France, reflecting the global mosaic of aerospace enthusiasts across more than 60 different nationalities.“

Our motto underlines the commitment of every member of our educational community to accompany our students towards high levels of academic and professional excellence, with passion.

It reflects our ambition to educate top-level engineers and researchers capable of meeting the complex challenges of aeronautics, space, and advanced systems.

At the service of society, our mission is to educate engineers to the highest level in order to maintain the European aeronautics and space industry and research, both civil and defence, at the forefront of the world, by relying on our 3 pillars: education, research, and innovation.

Our raison d'être is enshrined in our contract of objectives and performance: ISAE-SUPAERO's raison d'être is to educate high-level scientific and humanistic engineers who are innovative and capable of mastering the complex challenges of tomorrow's world.

We are committed to this mission in order to keep the European aerospace industry and research, both civil and military, at the forefront of the world. In this way, we are contributing to French and European sovereignty and prosperity, as well as to the progress of humankind.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we are committed to educating engineers and scientists of excellence, embodying a diversity that fosters innovation with values centred on initiative, respect, and responsibility.

Each graduate is prepared to meet the global challenges of tomorrow's world and to play a central role as an engineer, entrepreneur, or scientist, in innovating for a sustainable and sovereign society.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we offer a wide range of programmes, both initial and continuing, to meet the major challenges of the future, particularly in the aerospace sector.

As Polytechnique's application school for the general engineering curriculum, our Institute has expanded its educational offerings to include specialised engineering programmes as well as programmes open to international students.

A range of face-to-face and digital executive education programmes enables professionals to specialise throughout their careers.

In six years, our Institute has doubled its research activities, developing a resolutely interdisciplinary approach focused on major societal issues.

This dynamic approach is underpinned by close collaboration with academic and scientific partners, both locally and internationally, to enhance the impact of our work. More than a third of our research activities are directly linked to sustainable aeronautics and space, and several theses are leading to major developments in the industry and in fundamental—civil or defence—research. ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC are working on the creation of a joint research laboratory to consolidate a systemic approach to the aeronautics and space of tomorrow.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, innovation is at the heart of our education and research. Our Institute educates the innovators of tomorrow and supports the maturation of technologies developed in our research laboratories. On campus, we encourage our students, staff, and faculty to develop their entrepreneurial spirit and their ability to make things happen, thanks to practical education, methodological support, and an 800m² space dedicated to innovation, including a Digital Lab, a prototyping space, and a start-up incubator.

Our students benefit from personalised support to bring their projects to fruition, whether in technological development, applied research, or entrepreneurship. Thanks to the FabLab, they can experiment, invent, design, and build prototypes to bring their ideas to life. For our students and alumni who want to go further, the incubator provides the ideal setting to transform their concepts into start-ups and take on the technological challenges of tomorrow.

For more than 100 years, we have maintained a close relationship with the industrial world, enabling our students to develop skills in line with market needs.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, we are at the heart of Europe's aeronautics and space capital.

Our location facilitates close exchanges with companies in the sector, from large to small, as well as with the rich academic and research fabric of the Occitanie region.
Beyond this region, we are forging strong partnerships with academics and industry from all over the world based on our three pillars: education, research, and innovation.

At ISAE-SUPAERO, our students are truly open to the world. Every year, more than 40% of our students come from abroad from around sixty different countries. Our international reputation is illustrated by the agreements we have signed with more than 100 prestigious universities around the world for exchange programmes, as well as by our collaborative research projects with laboratories and organizations abroad, including MIT, ESA, and NASA. This diversity creates a unique environment conducive to exchange and innovation, and prepares students for international careers in all strategic and innovative sectors.

We have the honour of counting many pioneering and innovative engineers among our 26,000 alumni, such as Henri Coanda, creator of the first jet plane, and Henri Lefebvre, designer of Citroën's 2 CV and DS cars. Some great leaders such as Marcel Dassault (founder of Dassault Aviation) or Henri Ziegler (CEO of Aérospatiale and founder of Airbus Industries) built European aeronautics, while others like Guillaume Faury (CEO of Airbus) are piloting it today. Our many young alumni astronauts (Thomas Pesquet, Luca Parmitano, Samantha Cristoforetti, Sophie Adenot, Arnaud Prost, and Anthea Comellini) keep the European space dream alive. Finally, we are proud to have educated the heads of young, fast-growing companies such as Romain Moulin of Exotec and Benoît Lemaignan of Verkor, our first two French industrial unicorns; Eloa Guillotin of Beyond Aero, working to develop the 1^st hydrogen-powered electric aircraft; and Fabien Apper of U-Space. We hope that our future alumni will also transform the world in the long term.

Since 1968, ISAE-SUPAERO has been based in the heart of the European capital of aeronautics and space, the favourite city of French students between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean. Our 19-hectare campus is a lively and welcoming place, with a student residence of around 1,000 rooms, a wide range of sports facilities, and around a hundred student, cultural, and technical clubs, encouraging an intense community life on site.

Our Institute also boasts cutting-edge, world-class research facilities, supporting academic and scientific excellence. Our learning centre, the Aérothèque, offers 2,500m²of space reserved for a vast collection of documents, as well as rooms for collaborative working and flexible spaces for meetings, workshops, exhibitions, and conferences.

An environment that is the envy of many!

Our Labels, Accreditations and Certifications

Publication Date

18 February 2025

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Ranking

CTI Accreditation

"Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs" (Engineering Qualifications Commission)

Our Institute is accredited by the CTI:

For our General Engineering course under student status: Ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO;
For our Industrial Engineering speciality under apprentice status: Ingénieur ISAE-SUPAERO by apprenticeship.

The title of engineer accredited by the CTI (Commission des titres d’ingénieurs) is a guarantee that the programme will be of high quality and recognised by professionals.

The CTI is an independent body responsible for evaluating all French engineering schools (and foreign ones upon request) on their accreditation, developing the quality of education and promoting the title and profession of engineer in France and abroad.

Find out more about our two accreditations

EUR-ACE® label

"Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs" (Engineering Qualifications Commission)

Our General Engineering programme meets the quality criteria of the specific EUR-ACE® Framework Standards & Guidelines (EAFSG).
This label, which is also awarded by the CTI, gives ISAE-SUPAERO international recognition: engineering programmes with the EUR-ACE® label belong to schools that meet the highest standards. Once they have graduated, students from a EUR-ACE® accredited programme are guaranteed to have a range of skills and knowledge in line with European academic and professional standards.

Find out more about the EUR-ACE® label

CGE Accreditation

Conference of Grandes Écoles

Our Institute is accredited by the CGE for:

Our Advanced Master’s programmes: our Advanced Master’s programmes evolve each year in line with demand from companies. The strong involvement of professionals in our teaching and the requirement to carry out at least four months of work experience in a company during the programme give our graduates the added value of a highly professional education; and
Our 4DIGITAL label: this label enables Grandes Écoles to recognise and promote their mastery of digital technology, particularly for teaching and distance learning, both in France and abroad.

Find out more about Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) accreditation

HappyAtSchool® Ranking (2025)

A rating of 3.79/5 for a campus that fosters positive student experiences according to the HappyAtSchool® ranking (2025).

The HappyAtSchool® 2025 ranking highlights our Institute’s ability to offer a dynamic and fulfilling environment where students benefit from solid academic support and harmonious integration into a committed community. For our Institute, this ranking is a key indicator of our attractiveness, in a context where the student experience plays a decisive role.

The HappyAtSchool® ranking is based on the direct evaluation of students and measures their well-being within higher education establishments.

It takes into account a number of key criteria, such as the quality of life on campus, the atmosphere, teaching support, infrastructure, and career prospects.

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State-Controlled Education Labels

Several of our programmes are accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and recognised at the European level.

Find out more on the MESR website

AFAQ ISO 9001 certification

Our Institute is committed to ISO 9001 certification, an internationally recognised quality management standard.

AFNOR certifies that our management system complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015. ISO 9001 helps organisations of all sizes in all sectors to improve their performance, meet customer expectations, and demonstrate their commitment to quality.

Find out more about our AFAQ ISO 9001 certificate

Find out more about ISO 9001 certification

QUALIOPI Certification

Our Institute is QUALIOPI-certified:

For our programmes; and
For our initiatives to validate acquired experience.

Our Institute has obtained QUALIOPI certification for the past 4 years, for our educational activities and for our activities enabling people to validate their acquired experience.

QUALIOPI is a unique quality certification issued by independent certifiers, enabling the use of public or mutualised funds. This certification is the mark of quality guarantee for PACs, providers of actions contributing to the development of skills within the framework of education, skills assessments, actions enabling the validation of acquired experience, and apprenticeship training actions.

Access our QUALIOPI certificate

Find out more about QUALIOPI certification

"Bienvenue en France" Label

Our School has been awarded the “Welcome to France” label at the three-star level, the highest possible. This label, awarded by Campus France, rewards the quality of the welcome given to international students.

It is awarded to French higher education establishments that have developed welcome procedures for international students. It attests to the quality and accessibility of information, welcome procedures, the range of programmes on offer, teaching support, accommodation, the quality of campus life and post-graduate follow-up.

Our Institute is one of 153 establishments to have been awarded the “Welcome to France” label, 22% of which have been awarded at the three-star level.

Find out more about the "Bienvenue en France" label

Certification "Qualité Français Langue Étrangère"

Our Institute is now the first Grande École in Toulouse to be awarded the FLE label.

The aim of the label “Qualité Français Langue Étrangère” is to identify, recognise, and promote French as a Foreign Language centres whose linguistic courses and services offer guarantees of quality.

ISAE-SUPAERO has been awarded this label with three stars, the maximum possible, in the five areas of the reference system: education, teaching staff, reception, management, and premises and equipment. The label has a renewal period of four years.

This certification enables us to gain recognition for our expertise in teaching French as a foreign language and also to send a message to our international partners that, in addition to scientific excellence, we guarantee them high-quality teaching in French as a foreign language and a high-quality welcome.

Find out more about the FLE label

SD&RS Label

The Institute has been awarded the “Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility” (SD&CSR) label, official recognition of its environmental and corporate social responsibility strategy.

This distinction crowns several years of structuring initiatives in sustainable development and social responsibility.

The label, which has many levels of maturity, assesses the institution’s approach in five main areas: governance, education, research, environmental management, and social policy. This systemic analysis framework covers all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the UN.

Find out more about the DD&RS label

Our Rankings

Publication Date

18 February 2025

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Ranking

49th in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) for Aerospace Engineering

The Shanghai Ranking is internationally recognized for the rigor of its methodology, which relies primarily on the objective evaluation of scientific output (volume, quality, and impact) and international visibility.

ISAE-SUPAERO’s 49th place highlights the quality and intensity of the research conducted within our School.

This result is driven by several key indicators in which our Institute achieved particularly strong performance in 2025:

the volume and quality of scientific publications in top-tier (A-rank) journals;
academic impact (number of citations by peers);
international collaboration in research projects.

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The 6th Most Chosen School By Preparatory Class Students According to Génération Prépa (2023-2024)

ISAE-SUPAERO is ranked at least 6^th across all tracks, placing 4^th in the PSI track and 6^th in the MP track in the Génération Prépa 2023-2024 ranking of the most chosen schools by undergraduates. The Génération Prépa website is run by students from the Grandes Écoles and is aimed at students in the preparatory classes. Its rankings are based on data provided by the Service du Concours Ecoles d'Ingénieurs (SCEI) using 5 indicators: the competition in which the school is ranked, its average rank, the number of entrants, the number of places, and the number of students who have entered the school.

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5th in the Figaro Étudiant 2025 Ranking of Post-Prépa Engineering Schools (2025)

ISAE-SUPAERO is ranked 5^th in Figaro Étudiant's 2025 ranking of post-prépa engineering schools. Every year, Figaro Étudiant publishes its ranking of the best French post-prépa engineering schools. The characteristics and performances of 87 schools accessible after two years of preparatory classes are studied through various indicators grouped into three categories: academic, international, and employment. With a score of 16.5, our School has moved up 3 places compared to the 2024 ranking (8^th).

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7th in the Ranking of Engineering Schools According to Data Analysis for University Rankings (DAUR) (2024)

This ranking is the result of a study carried out on 185 engineering schools, with a particular focus on student engineering degrees. Classified according to five harmonised criteria depending on the output sectors and the size of the establishment, the data used for each school comes mainly from SCEI statistics, Parcoursup, the CTI's annual certification campaign, and the CDEFI's professional integration survey. With a final score of 73, ISAE-SUPAERO came 7^th out of the 185 schools ranked.

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Ranked 9th among engineering schools according to L'Usine Nouvelle (2026)

ISAE-SUPAERO has confirmed its place among France's elite engineering schools. This result reflects the recognition our Institute has earned across all evaluation criteria: professional integration, international outlook, proximity to industry, and research.

Our 9th place ranking is particularly significant in a classification that has reinforced the importance of research, a dimension that is central to ISAE-SUPAERO's identity.

At a time when engineering education is more than ever a path to the future, this ranking illustrates our commitment to technological, industrial, and environmental issues, in close collaboration with our academic and economic partners in France and abroad.

Our engineering programs shape talented individuals who are capable of playing a key role in the major transformations taking place in aeronautics, space, and complex systems, and of establishing themselves as major players in innovation and industrial transition.

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'4 stars' awarded by Challenges (2023)

With a 4-star rating, the Institute is one of the best post-prépa engineering schools in the Challenges ranking. The number of stars is awarded on the basis of a number of criteria, including the salary levels of graduates and the proportion of foreign students in each year's intake, reflecting the school's international appeal. The school's presence in the Shanghai Ranking and its alumni network on LinkedIn are also taken into account.

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A Score of 3.79/5 For a Campus That Fosters Positive Student Experiences According to the HappyAtSchool® Ranking (2025)

The HappyAtSchool® 2025 ranking highlights our Institute's ability to offer a dynamic and fulfilling environment where students benefit from solid academic support and harmonious integration into a committed community. For our Institute, this ranking is a key indicator of our attractiveness in a context where the student experience plays a decisive role. The HappyAtSchool^® ranking is based on the direct evaluation of students and measures their well-being within higher education institutions. It takes into account a number of key criteria, such as the quality of life on campus, the atmosphere, teaching support, infrastructure, and career prospects.

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Top 1% for Employability According to CWUR (2024)

With a ranking of 179^th out of nearly 21,000 institutions evaluated worldwide, ISAE-SUPAERO is in the top 1% worldwide for employability! The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) provides advice to governments and universities on education and research. CWUR publishes a world ranking of universities according to the employability of their graduates. Employability is measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held senior positions in the world's largest companies, relative to the size of the university.

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Our Key Figures

Publication Date

17 February 2025

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Tag

Aerospace

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Find out the key figures for ISAE-SUPAERO, a Graduate school of engineering with a multidisciplinary curriculum at the global forefront of higher education and research in aerospace engineering.

Education

programmes

1,920

students (including around 820 new students for the start of the 2024 academic year)

314

ISAE-SUPAERO 'generalist' engineering graduates

industrial engineering graduates by apprenticeship

156

Master's degree graduates

209

Advanced Master's graduates

22 %

of female students

20 %

of students are on scholarship or grants

141

faculty members and permanent lecturers

1,500

part-time lecturers (75% of whom come from socio-economic backgrounds)

Research

research departments

128

faculty members and researchers

professors qualified to direct research (HDR)

284

PhD students

10M€

in research funding

195

scientific publications

research facilities

Innovation

800 m²

dedicated to innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship

staff members dedicated to innovation and support for start-ups

start-ups supported

entrepreneurial projects under development

patents and invention declarations

Our International Outlook

nationalities on campus

41.6 %

international students

programmes taught in English

112

agreements with universities in 35 countries on 5 continents

international double degree agreements

Our Relationships with Companies

partner companies (Company Pass)

2,000+

job and work placement offers distributed to our students

chairs

26,000

alumni

Professional Integration of Our Graduates

Discover the 2025 employment survey on our 2024 classes:

Our Campus

110

cultural, sports, and technical clubs and associations

aircraft for introduction to flying and teaching support

1,000

rooms for student accommodation

hectares of campus space

sports facilities

82.1 %

of students satisfied with the quality of life on campus (Happy at School)

Hisis

An Illustrated History of our School

Publication Date

17 February 2025

Category

Tag

Aerospace

History

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News

“Let’s not lose anything from the past. It is only with the past that we make the future”.

Anatole France, “Le livre de mon ami”, 1885.

Contribute to the History of ISAE-SUPAERO!

In order to develop our work to preserve and promote the Institute's heritage, we are looking for testimonials and documents relating to the history of ISAE-SUPAERO: photographs, courses, reports, letters, brochures, posters, films, etc.

This site is also yours, so please don't hesitate to contact us!

Dominique Labro

Documentalist, responsible for the historical archives

dominique.labro@@isae-supaero.fr +33 5 61 33 89 08

Discover the Illustrated History of ISAE-SUPAERO

Discover all our history through digitised archive documents!

Our E-Books

Four e-books recount the history of the two aeronautical and aerospace schools, SUPAERO and ENSICA, from their creation to the end of the 1970s: changes of buildings, locations, status, environment, and diversification of teaching and teaching methods, constantly adapting to scientific and technical changes as well as socio-economic ones.

JEAN-BAPTISTE ROCHE

Founder of SUPAERO

SUPAERO

From ESACM to ENSAE

TEACHING

School lessons 1909-1940

ENSICA

From ENTA to ENSICA

Our Thematic Focus

THEATRICAL EVENINGS

1920-1940

THE OWL, EMBLEM OF ISAE-SUPAERO

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

TEACHING AT ENSA

1950-1960

LOCATIONS in Paris

SPORTS TOURNAMENTS AT THE MAJOR AERONAUTICAL SCHOOLS

THE CAMPUS IN TOULOUSE: RESIDENCES

Thanks to this heritage, ISAE-SUPAERO is still able to provide high-quality higher education and educate highly qualified engineers in aeronautics, space, and related fields.

A Few Benchmarks

The Successive Names of SUPAERO

1909-1930	Higher School of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering	ESACM
1930-1972	École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique (French National School of Aeronautics)	ENSA
1972-2007	École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (French National School of Aeronautics and Space)	ENSAE
2007-2015	Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space	ISAE
2015 ->	Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace -Supaero	ISAE-SUPAERO

SUPAERO’s Successive Buildings

1909-1910	30 rue Falguière	75015 PARIS
1910-1930	93 rue de Clignancourt	75018 PARIS
1930-1940	32 boulevard Victor	75015 PARIS
1940-1942	Perignon barracks	31500 TOULOUSE
1942-1968	32 boulevard Victor	75015 PARIS
1968 ->	10 avenue Edouard Belin	31400 TOULOUSE

The Successive Names of ENSICA

1945-1957	National School of Aeronautical Works	ENTA
1957-1979	National School of Aeronautical Construction Engineers	ENICA
1979-2007	National School of Aeronautical Construction Engineers	ENSICA
2007-2015	Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space	ISAE
2015 ->	Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace-Supaero	ISAE-SUPAERO

The Successive Buildings of ENSICA

1945-1963	32 boulevard Victor	75015 PARIS
1963-2015	49 avenue Léon Blum	31500 TOULOUSE
2015 ->	10 avenue Edouard Belin	31400 TOULOUSE

SUPAERO's Official (and Unofficial) Emblems

Legal Information

Given the impossibility of contacting all the authors or their successors in title, as well as the people visible in the photographs, ISAE-SUPAERO has chosen to distribute the documents in its possession, given their historical interest for the Institute. However, the usual rights that follow the works remain with their authors.

In addition, any person identifiable through the documents placed online has the right to access, rectify, or delete any personal data concerning them. To exercise this right, please contact the Documentation Department (aerotheque@isae.fr).

In accordance with current legislation:

any use or extraction of elements from the Hisis site without the authorisation of ISAE-SUPAERO is illegal and punishable by law as counterfeiting;
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Brand manual

Our logos

Publication Date

11 February 2025

Category

Tag

Communication

Institute

For the creation of your documents, we make our logo available in several web formats for on-screen use (electronic documents: web, powerpoint, print, etc.). For ‘vector’ use in high definition, please contact the marketing & communication department. Our ISAE-SUPAERO logo must be used as is, without alteration of shape or colour as specified in our brand manual available for download.

Versions of Our Logo

JPG 72dpi (RGB) format for on-screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
Open the link then right-click to save as.
JPG format 300dpi (RGB) for on-screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
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JPG format 300dpi (CMYK) for print use (printing...)
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PNG format 72dpi (RGB) for screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
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PNG 300dpi (RGB) format for screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
Open the link, then right-click to save as.

JPG 72dpi black and white format for on-screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
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JPG format 300dpi black and white for print use (printing…)
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PNG format 72dpi black for screen use (electronic documents: web, powerpoint...)
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PNG format 300dpi black for print use (printing...)
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PNG 72dpi white format for screen use (electronic documents: web, PowerPoint, etc.)
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PNG format 300dpi white for print use (printing…)
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Contact the Marketing & Communication Department (select 'General Information')

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