École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENSL, ENS-Lyon or Normale Sup Lyon) is an elite "grande école" located in Lyon, France, in the district of Gerland. Similar in status to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, it trains researchers and teachers in the scientific fields.

Teaching subjects include:
* pure and applied mathematics, computer science
* physics and chemistry
* life and earth sciences.

History

This higher education establishment was raised from the scientific part of two establishments, ENS of Saint-Cloud (built in 1882) and Fontenay-aux-Roses (1880), created by Jules Ferry. They were open respectively to men and women. In 1987, the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud was moved to Lyon, and restricted to scientific topics. The Fontenay-aux-Roses followed in 2002 and became the École normale supérieure lettres et sciences humaines, specialized in languages, social science, and literature.

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External links

* [http://www.ens-lyon.eu/web/nav/ Official website]