- 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 inLyon ,France , in the district of Gerland. Similar in status to theÉcole Normale Supérieure inParis , it trainsresearcher s and teachers in the scientific fields.Teaching subjects include:
* pure andapplied mathematics ,computer science
*physics andchemistry
* life and earth sciences.History
This higher education establishment was raised from the scientific part of two establishments, ENS of
Saint-Cloud (built in1882 ) andFontenay-aux-Roses (1880 ), created byJules Ferry . They were open respectively to men and women. In1987 , the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud was moved toLyon , and restricted to scientific topics. The Fontenay-aux-Roses followed in2002 and became theÉcole normale supérieure lettres et sciences humaines , specialized in languages, social science, and literature.*
External links
* [http://www.ens-lyon.eu/web/nav/ Official website]
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