History
The ENSAE was established in 1942 under the National Statistics Service (ancestor of the INSEE, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) under the name of the School of Applied Statistics. In 1946, the creation of INSEE, the school took the name of INSEE Specialization School. At this time, the school lead to two types of administrative career: "administrateur" (the highest managing level of the INSEE administration) and "attaché" (the lower level) civil servant executives. Early promotions included five or six "administrateurs" students five or six "attachés" students .
The decree of November 2, 1960 change the name of the school in the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration. The number of students grows, and the curriculum opens to graduate students from Law Schools and Universities of Economics. The decree of April 15, 1971 clarifies the administrative status and the objective of the school in the academic field, definitely making the ENSAE a Grande Ecole. The school moved to its current campus, at Malakoff Hauts de Seine, 1975.
In the 1980s, a system of scholarship is established to support doctoral studies. A research laboratory, the CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics), was formed in 1988.
In 1994, the Department of training for "attachés", becomes a full-fledged school, the National School for Statistics and Analysis Areas information (ENSAI, relocated to Rennes). The "administrateurs" training stays at the ENSAE where more and more students choose to specialize in financial modeling and other new area of applied statistics such as biostatistics or marketing.
In 2006, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced officially the moving of the School to the new ParisTech Campus in Palaiseau, near the École Polytechnique in 2010.
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