ENSAM : Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers

Degree accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles

The Advanced Masters is a postgraduate vocational course offering:

• a specialty
• double skills
• professional training in an emerging role.

It provides unique knowledge in a specific role or sector for which companies have a real need.
The close links between the schools' research laboratories and the business world guarantee rigor, technique, and management ability that fits companies' needs.
The Advanced Masters is a collective label belonging to the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and awarded to specific courses organized by Conférence member schools.
The very rigorous accreditation procedure ensures the lasting excellence of the degree courses.

The program for a Advanced Masters course consists of:

• 350 hours of theoretical teaching, practical work and group work
• individual study and research work prepared during a period in industry, leading to a presentation and a vocational thesis (at least 4 months). Students with professional experience can choose to spend this period at a research center or laboratory.

Organized into small working groups, the students benefit from flexible, evolving teaching.
The minimum length of a Advanced Masters program is 4 semesters.
Successful candidates have the status of student or continuing professional trainee.

About 20 Advanced Masters programs

These courses are given in one of Arts et Métiers ParisTech's eight Teaching and Research Centers (CER) or three Institutes.

• Sustainable Housing and Construction (Pôle Méditerranéen de l'Innovation)
• Eco-Design and Environmental Management (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Chambéry Institute)
• Renewable Energy Sources and Their Production Systems(Arts et Métiers ParisTech Bastia Institute)
• Managing Human Resources and International Mobility (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Center, co-accrédité avec l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)
• Aeronautic and Spatial Engineering (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Bordeaux-Talence Center)
• Integration of Quality, Health, Safety and Environment Management Systems (Pôle Méditerranéen de l’Innovation)
• Managing Master Contracts (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Center)
• Global Risk Management (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Campus, co-accredited with l’Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics)
• Maintenance Management (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Center)
• Management of Industrial Aeronautics Projects / Aeronautics Maintenance(Arts et Métiers ParisTech Aix-en-Provence Center)
• Quality Management (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Center)
• Strategic Management of Change via Innovation (Pôle Méditerranéen de l’Innovation)
• Lean: Production and Logistics(Arts et Métiers ParisTech Paris Center)
• Nuclear Safety (Pôle Méditerranéen de l’Innovation)
• Technologies for Hybrid Electricity and Heat Production Systems, specialty: managing new energy sources (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Lille Center)
• Advanced Virtual Spaces (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Cluny Center)
• Electric Vehicle Engineering (Arts et Métiers ParisTech Lille Center)

Admissions

• Engineering degree accredited by the Engineering Qualifications Commission (CTI)
• Degree from business and management schools authorized to award master's degrees
• University degree at Bac+5 level (Master 2, DESS, DEA etc.)
• Master 1 or equivalent degree plus at least three years' professional experience
• Equivalent foreign degree

Admission criteria

Admission is decided on the basis of an application and an interview with a panel of teachers and professionals from the world of industry.
Depending on the specialty, fluency in English may be required.

Cost and funding

Between 7,000 and 12,000 euros depending on the specialty.
Ask the Masters coordinators for more information.