| Motto: | Nous avons un monde à transformer |
| Mottoeng: | We have a world to transform |
| Type: | Public, Graduate engineering |
| Established: | 1891 |
| Students: | 1200 (2023) |
| Budget: | 24 000 000 € |
Centrale Méditerranée, formerly known as is a leading graduate school of engineering (or Grande école of engineering) located in Marseille, the second largest city in France. Centrale Méditerranée was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions and has its origins from the École d'Ingénieurs de Marseille founded in 1891. As a successor school of the latter, it is one of the oldest French engineering Grande école, and is amongst the best engineering school of France.[1]
It is one of the prestigious Centrale Graduate Schools[2] (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Marseille) and a member of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network.
From its creation, Centrale Méditerranée trains highly skilled engineers (called "ingénieurs centraliens"), recruited since 2004 through a nationwide highly competitive exam shared with the other Centrale Graduate Schools.
Centrale Méditerranée is a multidisciplinary school, where the great majority of the students have endured two or three years of intensive maths and physics training (known as prepa) in order to train for the Concours Centrale-Supélec (known as one of the hardest competitive exams in France).
As future general engineers, students do not have any particular major before the last year (Master's level), during which they have to choose among a few electives:
The students can also complete their last year in one of the other Centrale Graduate Schools or be part of an exchange program.
There are three-years PhD programs available in all the aforementioned domains of research (the students are required to have completed a Master's program).
Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities across the world, among them :
Eight research laboratories are under the joint leadership of Ecole Centrale Marseille and Aix-Marseille University :
Centrale Méditerranée is ranked among the top 20[10] French Grandes Ecoles (graduate schools), though it does not appear in international rankings due to its very limited number of students (250 students for the class of 2016).
The alumni network has about 16,000 members worldwide.[11]