Training in the Gironde
The Gironde offers a wide choice of training possibilities providing effective vocational training and making the region an attractive one.
- A higher pass rate in the Baccalauréat than the national average
- 81,130 students, 10% of the population of the Bordeaux Urban Community
- 67,100 university students, the fifth-largest university in France (outside Paris)
- 7,500 foreign students in the Bordeaux education authority area
- 4,200 students in Engineering Schools
Major projects
- The Campus Operation being coordinated by the Higher Education and Research Centre (four universities, Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute, the ENITA Agricultural College and Bordeaux Political Science Institute) is a vast real-estate project to contribute to scientific and educational activities in a new university model.
- Creation in Bordeaux in 2012 of the Optical Institute Graduate School
- Opening of a 5th engineering school within the Polytechnic Institute (ENSEGID)
University Education
- Bordeaux 1 University, Sciences and Technologies : mathematics, IT, physics, chemistry, biology and earth and sea sciences – 9,000 students
- Bordeaux 2 Victor Segalen University: life, health and human sciences – 17,900 students
- Bordeaux 3 Michel de Montaigne University: letters, humanities, arts, development, information and communication, social careers – 15,200 students
- Bordeaux IV Montesquieu University: law, social and political sciences, economics and management sciences – 18n200 students
- 3 IUP (University Professional Institutes), 6 IUT (University Technology Institutes)
- Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute comprising 5 engineering schools: the National School of Electronics, IT, Telecommunications, Mathematics and Mechanics of Bordeaux; the National School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics (ENSCBP); the National School of Cognitics, the Bordeaux National School of Biomolecule Technology and the National School for the Environment, Georesources and Sustainable Development Engineering (ENSEGID).
Bordeaux Engineering Schools
- National School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics (ENSCBP)
- National School of Arts and Crafts (ENSAM)
- National School of Electronics, IT, Telecommunications, Mathematics and Mechanics of Bordeaux (ENSEIRB – MATMECA)
- Bordeaux National School of Agricultural Engineering (ENITAB)
- Bordeaux National School of Biomolecule Technology (ESTBB)
- National School of Cognitics
- National School for the Environment, Georesources and Sustainable Development Engineering (ENSEGID)
- Centre for Higher Studies in Industry (CESI Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes)
Other Grandes Écoles
Bordeaux Business School, Bordeaux School of Architecture and Landscaping, the French National School for the Judiciary, the Maritime Affairs Group of Schools, Bordeaux Political Science Institute, Bordeaux Fine Arts School, INSEEC, the School of Electronics, IT and Computer Graphics (ESTEI).
The new Aerocampus Aquitaine training centre proposes a wide range of training with comprehensive courses in aeronautics maintenance from secondary school level through to post-graduate level, both in initial training and lifelong learning.
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