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Efrei Paris, founded in 1936, is an engineering school specialized in information and digital technologies. Every year, the school grants up to 300 Master of Engineering degrees.
Located in Paris, Efrei Paris works in close partnership with a large number of companies, helping to meet both the academic and professional goals of roughly 1,300 students. Now with more than 7,300 alumni engin...eers working in France and internationally, Efrei Paris is highly placed among the rankings of recruiting agencies and human resources departments of large companies.
Efrei Paris is a member of the “Conference des Grandes Ecoles” (CGE) and has been approved by the “Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur”, the only official accrediting body in France, to award Master of Engineering degrees since 1957.
The average salary for Efrei Paris graduates from the class of 2014 is €38,500 annually.
From André Truong (class of 1959), the co-inventor of the first-ever microprocessor to Rani Assaf (class of 1997), one of the minds behind the Freebox (an ADSL modem offered by the French telecommunication provider Free), a number of Efrei Paris engineers have taken their place in the history of computing.
Today, young graduates from Efrei Paris continue to play an innovative role in the in the field of information technology. Such notable alumni include: Adrien Touati (class of 2009), founder of GoProd, well-known for its many remarkable applications; Arnaud Meunier (class of 2006), developer of the Twitoaster app which was showcased in a 2009 New York Times article by columnist David Pogue; Mathieu Nebra (class of 2008), creator of the renowned IT website Site du Zéro; and Thomas Albisser and Romain Vailleux (class of 2009), founders of the green IT company Hop-Cube.
Over the past 75 years, Efrei has advanced in sync with major technological developments. The school has been privileged to participate in the evolution of the world and exchanges between human beings in three main areas: technology, economy and society.
Our school was founded in 1936. At the time, the school was known as the Ecole Française de Radioélectricité (EFR). EFR, created by Ernest Lavigne, responded to a growing demand from society and was set to become a long-term feature of the field of information technology: through the teaching of science and of radio-electronic techniques, the school trained radio wave technicians, in particular for the merchant navy.
At the end of the Second World War, EFR obtained state recognition and set itself the goal of training engineers. A decade later, when its degree was recognized by the “Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur” in 1957, EFR was training an engineer who was set to profoundly change the IT industry: in 1972, as part of his R2e company, André Truong (class of 1959) co-invented with François Gernelle the Micral-N, the world’s first microcomputer.
Consequently, in 1973, EFR naturally became the Ecole Française d’Electronique et d’Informatique (Efrei) and, with two areas of expertise, electronics and IT, Efrei was able to double market penetration in all strategic economic sectors. Since then, information processing (circulation, storage, regulation, etc.) has boomed, led by increasingly powerful systems and networks, to the point where it represents the main driver of world growth, both in terms of productivity and knowledge in general.
The ‘80s saw a significant increase in the school’s student numbers, reaching an average of 200 graduates per year in 1990, 300 from 1996 onwards.
Efrei has risen to the challenge of technological developments to become one of the very first benchmark schools for training engineers in information and digital technologies. To date Efrei, has produced 7,300 working engineers and has seen both men and women embark on glittering careers. Examples include Gilles Granier (class of 1972), former Managing Director of Intel France and Europe, Rani Assaf (class of 1997) and Antoine Levavasseur (class of 1999) who created the Freebox (an ADSL modem offered by the French telecommunication provider Free) and are part of the technical management of the Iliad group.
Efrei draws on 80 years of experience, in which IT has been key, to orient its programs and to promote rigor, vitality and excellence in training engineers who are more and more in demand and command increasing respect both in France and internationally.
Since 2001, Efrei Paris’s campus has been located in Villejuif, in the south of Paris and can be easily accessed via subway or bus. It is ideally situated in the residential area of Villejuif town center, and there are many shops, restaurants and other services (post office, banks, bus station, etc.) close by.
Students can enjoy a wide range of facilities which include a university restaurant, 7 lecture halls, 17 laboratories, and many classrooms and rooms dedicated to student clubs and associations.
Students can also take advantage of the leafy campus where events are regularly organized by clubs and organizations.