EFREI Engineering School of Information and Digital Technologies: Courses, Admission, Cost

Founded in 1936, EFREI is a French private engineering school in Villejuif, Île-de-France, Paris. EFREI Paris is a state-recognized private university that functions as a non-profit organization. It helps to meet the academic and professional goals of roughly 2,100 students working in close partnership with an extensive network of companies. The top-notch academic curriculum and facilities have let EFREI Paris gain membership of the prestigious "Conference des Grandes Ecoles" (CGE), a French network of top business and engineering schools. The state-of-the-art, green campus also enjoys a lot of events that are regularly organized by various clubs and organizations at the institute. The wide range of facilities available to students includes lecture halls, laboratories, a fab lab, an incubator, co-working spaces, a student center, a university restaurant, etc.

The courses offered by EFREI Paris specialize in Computer Science and Management and are taught with support from the state. The engineering degree that is earned by the graduating students is accredited by the CTI (National Commission for Engineering Degree Accreditation). The degree is equivalent to a master's degree in the European higher education area. A myriad of undergraduate, graduate, and engineering courses offered by EFREI Paris help students be job-ready in several sectors using information and digital technologies like Big Data, Business Intelligence, Software Engineering, etc. Today, more than 6,500 EFREI alumni are working in companies in various sectors, such as education, human resources development, business/marketing, company management, legal advice, and so on.

The expert faculty at EFREI respond to national, European or international calls for projects on research themes directly and inculcate them into courses and projects in the engineering programme. The AllianSTIC laboratory at EFREI is headed by Professor Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, who is the Director of Research at the college and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. The research team of AllianSTIC laboratory works in collaboration with several laboratories and companies in France and Europe, focussing specifically on applied research in fast-growing fields of research, namely Big Data & Web Intelligence and Connected Objects and Indoor Location.

EFREI Paris has an extensive international network with 8,000 former students represented in over 1,000 companies. EFREI Paris graduates have occupied positions in top French and international companies, such as Project Director at Publicis, Cloud Platform Solution Engineer at Google or Director of IT audits at LVMH.

EFREI's most notable alumnus is André Truong, who created the Micral, the earliest commercial personal computer based on a microprocessor. In France, he is referred to as the father of the personal computer. Other notable alumni include Julien Coustaury, Tarik Ansari, and David Gurle. EFREI also has 23 founders amongst its alumni.