About the Collège des Ingénieurs

The Collège des Ingénieurs is an independent multinational institution for post-graduate education founded in 1986. 100% financed by industry, the Collège is proud to be able to offer its participants a unique framework and special studying conditions: the best professors who teach at the most prestigious private universities (Harvard, Chicago, INSEAD ...) and public universities (St Gall, Lausanne ...), industry standard residential programmes and workshops and strong professional links with business. The Collège belongs to its partners as is the standard for the majority of consultancy firms. 

The Collège was founded in France, Germany and Italy in partnership with leading corporations throughout the world. We carefully select the top graduates from the best European, American, Canadian and Chinese universities and Grandes Écoles. The Collège was specially created to select only those young graduate engineers and scientists with real leadership potential and seeks to train them in management so that they become future high potential managers.

What makes the Collège des Ingénieurs unique?

The Collège covers the total costs of tuition, pays a salary to its participants and rewards all this work, in theory and in practice, with an MBA. All our programmes are based on the motto: "Learning through Action": a year at the Collège really is a year spent experiencing every facet of the business world.

The role of science and technology in business and society has changed - and keeps changing.

Ever since its foundation, the Collège des Ingénieurs has had the mission to make carefully selected young graduate engineers and scientists understand the core economic, entrepreneurial and international issues, but also the challenges and potentials of future business.

Technology is currently shifting the business landscape. As a result new challenges are emerging due to the current 'innovation to market' business revolution.

The Collège prepares it's graduates for these new leadership functions, which requires a strategic understanding of business as well as an entrepreneurial mindset.

Embedded in a European innovation ecosystem, the Collège fulfills this mission by mentoring and challenging its students’ minds with the different perspectives of senior academics and practitioners with leadership backgrounds, and by providing them with a very special – and intense – experience of working on a dedicated company mission in leading corporations in Europe.

The peer group of top European graduates, in one classroom, spending their time and working together in an international context, puts them in a very inspiring environment.

"Qui agit intellegit": Learning through Action

Our educational philosophy is genuinely innovative. We believe that there are some things that can only be understood through action. This concept is especially true in the case of management.

The management programme at the Collège des Ingénieurs is an innovative MBA programme: it is based on a unique development process of Learning through Action. It has been specially designed to take engineering and science graduates from the world’s top universities or Grandes Écoles and prepare them for the most responsible positions in the world of business through practical and conceptual theory. 

The "College" ethos

In terms of educational theory, the "College" concept breaks free from the conventional, rigidly structured, teaching process which constrains participants to a pre-determined academic curriculum.

The College ethos creates a place of freedom, made possible by the quality and small number of participants. A place of hungry minds which requires tolerance, and a range of special expertise: essential ingredients for a fertile environment that will encourage critical but creative individuals. A place of sharing between major decision-makers and young talent.

It is a spirit that drives all the great European Colleges such as the Ecole Normale Supérieure and, of course, Oxford and Cambridge Colleges.

Paris: A place of education that has always impacted society

Today, the Collège des Ingénieurs resides in the 7^th arrondissement in Paris, 215 Boulevard Saint-Germain. Intellectuals, diplomats, business leaders and academics (Ferdinand de Lesseps, Emile Boutmy, Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Ernest Renan, Anatole France, José Maria de Heredia, Fustel de Coulanges, Ferdinand de Saussure, Gustave de Rothschild and Charles Ephrussi to name a few) used to meet here to discuss the bridges they wanted to build between universities, business and public administration; the so-called "Cercle Saint-Simon".

L'Alliance Française was also created here in 1883 by none other than Louis Pasteur and Jules Verne amongst its founding members. The Collège continues to keep up the tradition of creating an avant-garde network which is always looking to the future.

München: Technology meets innovation

In 1996, the Collège des Ingénieurs was established in Germany. After starting out in Stuttgart, the offices soon moved to München, the economic center of Southern Germany.

Our administrative offices are located in Möhlstraße 6 in Bogenhausen where academics, diplomats and impressive villas of traditional family businesses are found. The management classes also take place at the picturesque monastery Kloster Zangberg and in the modern surroundings of the IHK Westerham, both located in Bavaria.

Torino: Looking to the future in an Italian style

By the joint initiative of the Collège des Ingénieurs, John Elkann (VP, Fondazione Agnelli), Marco Tronchetti Provera (President of Fondazione Pirelli) and Riccardo Garrone (President of Fondazione Edoardo Garrone) the Collège des Ingénieurs Italia (formerly Scuola di Alta Formazione al Management) was established in 2009.

It resides in the futuristic building of the Fondazione Agnelli in Torino - a true hub for innovation in Northern Italy. The communicative atmosphere generated here has a great impact on the way our Fellows think, work and innovate.