Discover the Paris-Saclay campus

Located less than 20 kilometers from Paris, ENSTA's Paris-Saclay campus in Palaiseau offers a unique setting. It is situated on the École Polytechnique campus (covering an area of 164 hectares, including 120 hectares of green space). It offers 6 hectares of teaching facilities, student accommodation, catering services, and an exceptional range of sports facilities for students, research teams, and staff who live on campus.

The ENSTA Paris-Saclay campus is located in the heart of the Saclay plateau, which is home to numerous scientific establishments and institutions: public research organizations (CNRS, INRAE, INRIA, ONERA, INSERM, CEA, etc.), private research centers (Air Liquide, Danone, EDF Lab, IBM, Thales R&T, etc.), higher education institutions (École Polytechnique, Paris-Saclay University, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris CentraleSupélec, AgroParisTech, HEC).

Find on campus

Comprising five three-story buildings, the ENSTA residence is located right next to the school, in a quiet, tree-lined setting.

These identically designed buildings contain 425 studios and 5 apartments available to students. First-year students are guaranteed accommodation just a stone's throw from the lecture halls and classrooms!

“Zone 5,” a reserved area for the entire student community adjacent to the main building, has a common room and numerous rooms dedicated to each student association.

  • Catering options

There are several options available to you. In addition to meals prepared in your student accommodation, you can eat at the Elior cafeteria in the School or at the Le Magnan restaurant at the École Polytechnique (less than 10 minutes walk from ENSTA).

  • Sports facilities

To satisfy all sporting desires, ENSTA has numerous facilities shared with École Polytechnique.

  • A 1,734 m² gymnasium
  • École Polytechnique sports fields:
    • Indoor facilities: a weight room, a fencing hall, a gymnasium, two 25-meter swimming pools, two volleyball courts, three basketball and handball courts, two climbing walls, a dojo, a dance studio, and a shooting range.
    • Outdoor facilities: an equestrian center with 30 horses, a beach volleyball court, a 400-meter running track, a golf driving range, a semi-artificial lake, one climbing wall, four soccer fields, three rugby fields, and eight tennis courts.
  • Training and research facilities

With lecture halls, classrooms, tutorial rooms, research laboratories, and dedicated experimentation facilities, there is a wealth of equipment available to enable our students to pursue scientific and technical excellence.

  • ENSTA laboratories
    • The Yvette Center is home to the Applied Optics Laboratory.
    • The Mechanics Unit is located in the mechanics center, which is jointly owned with École Polytechnique.
    • The Applied Mathematics Unit, the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Unit, the Chemistry and Processes Unit, and the Applied Economics Unit are located in the School building.
  • With a thesis completion rate of over 30%, ENSTA and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris offer a wide range of research topics and equipment.
  • Discover our laboratories

Key figures

6
hectares of campus
430
studios
11 000
students on the IP Paris campus

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