Paris - A World Class Destination For Higher Education

Paris is a wonderful destination, known wold over for its history, tradition, culture, glamour and academia. Top priority is given to education in Paris at all the levels Education in France is compulsory for children aged six to sixteen. State education is free, secular with mixed-sex classes. Education is also available in private, fee-paying schools (which include most religion-based and international schools).

Paris is home to many top class / world renowned universities such as:

•     Institut Catholique de Paris
•     The American Business School Paris
•     Custom Programs in Paris
•     IÉSEG School of Management
•     The Sorbonne - Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne

The Paris region hosts France's highest concentration of the prestigious grandes écoles – specialized centers of higher-education outside the public university structure. The prestigious public universities are usually considered grands establishments. Most of the grandes écoles were relocated to the suburbs of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, in new campuses much larger than the old campuses within the crowded city of Paris. The Paris area hosts 55 grandes écoles, including a high number of engineering schools, some of them led by the prestigious Paris Institute of Technology. Paris offers the best of study abroad programs globally.