Education
The former vocation of MINES ParisTech (to train high-level mining engineers) evolved in the course of time considering the technological progress and society's transformation. The MINES ParisTech has now become one of the most prestigious "generalist" French engineering schools with a broad variety of disciplines. Its students are trained to have management positions, work in research and development departments, or as operations officers, etc. They receive a good training not only in technical fields (mathematics, physics) but also in economics and social sciences in order to be able to tackle all matters to be expected in a manager's daily responsibilities. Exchange programs are possible during the third semester with universities such as (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS), Tokyo Tech, Seoul National University...)
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