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Top 25 Engineering schools based in France
RevenueBase identified 141 engineering schools headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 24,694 professional contacts across them, including 6,188 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers engineering schools headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest engineering schools based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,984 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “École d’ingénieurs créée en 1958 par des entreprises industrielles, CESI est agréée par la CTI et membre de la CGE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “École Polytechnique, also known as L’X, is the leading French institution combining top-level research, academics, and innovation at the cutting-edge of science and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,866 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “One school, three campuses - 4,500 students and 370 teaching and research staff interacting with its international network - 3 schools abroad (China, India and Morocco) and 5…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,493 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers is a prestigious engineering school.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 921 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'UTC, établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel, a été créée en 1972 pour être une université expérimentale de technologie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 903 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée à Troyes en 1994, l’Université de technologie de Troyes est un établissement public, habilité par la Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur et membre de la Conférence des Grandes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 641 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mines Saint-Étienne s’engage pour que la science et l’innovation bâtissent un avenir plus durable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 574 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESIEE Paris, l'école de l'innovation technologique, est membre de l'Université Gustave Eiffel et école de la CCI Paris Ile-de-France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 528 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1857, Centrale Lyon ranks among the top ten engineering schools in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Première école d'ingénieurs-es de Normandie et figurant parmi les principaux établissements français, l'INSA Rouen occupe une place majeure dans le paysage de la formation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centrale Lille Institut, un acteur majeur de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Des grands projets hier à la construction décarbonée aujourd’hui, l’ESTP a depuis 135 ans accompagné les grandes évolutions sociétales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis près de 120 ans, l’ESME est l’école d’ingénieurs qui s’engage dans la transformation positive de nos mondes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Université de Haute-Alsace est présente sur deux villes : Mulhouse et Colmar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 405 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EPF is a Graduate School of Engineering in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 1966, l’INSA Rennes est la plus grande école d'ingénieurs en Bretagne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ESIGELEC forme des ingénieurs généralistes dans les domaines de la tech : Numérique, Big Data, Sécurité Réseaux, Ingénierie d’affaires, Finance, Automatique, Energie…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ESEO is a graduate school of engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 296 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grande Ecole d'ingénieurs généraliste 5 formations d'ingénieurs reconnues par la CTI :* ECAM Arts et Métiers : formation généraliste en 5 ans * ECAM Engineering : 1ère formation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ecole supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon is a higher education company based out of Lyon, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The ESTIA campus is an ecosystem which includes: • Engineering courses & masters degrees • Research teams & technical platforms • A company incubator Engineering School: Estia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ENSICAEN, école publique à Bac+2, a pour vocation de former des ingénieurs de haut niveau scientifique et technique en - Génie Physique et Systèmes Embarqués (statut étudiant et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 216 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 60 ans, les ingénieur.e.s EIVP façonnent et réinventent les plus belles villes du monde et déploient leurs compétences dans tous les secteurs du génie urbain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Polytech Lille, école d’ingénieur de l’Université de Lille, est également un membre fondateur du réseau Polytech regroupant aujourd’hui 16 écoles sur le territoire national.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Polytech Nantes is the graduate university engineering school at the University of Nantes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: engineering schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names engineering schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of engineering schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name engineering schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Engineering schools based in France at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 141 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among engineering schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “engineering schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names engineering schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among engineering schools, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,188 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names engineering schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many engineering schools are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 141 engineering schools headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CESI, headquartered in Puteaux, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most engineering schools?
Paris leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Le Havre (4) and Cachan (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,188 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 141 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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