ESMA Aviation Academy is a private aviation school founded in 1988, offering training for pilots, cabin crew, aircraft maintenance technicians, and airport ground staff. This entry focuses on the technical/engineering aspects like maintenance.
Address: Aéroport Montpellier Méditerranée, CS 10005, 34137 Mauguio, Occitanie, France
Aircraft Maintenance Engineering, Pilot Training, Air Traffic Control (ab-initio)
Domains taught:
- Aerospace, Automation, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Logistics, Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics, Transportations
Diplomas*:
- Certificate, Diploma
Status:
- Private
Partnerships:
Part of AEGEducation group. Partnerships with airlines and MRO companies. EASA approved training organization.
Research:
Aircraft systems and maintenance procedures, Avionics, Airframe and powerplant mechanics, Flight operations and air navigation.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
200
Current students***:
800
Foreign students***:
30%
Cumulative former students***:
N/A
Pros
Comprehensive aviation training, EASA approved programs, good facilities including simulators and aircraft.
Cons
Private institution with high training costs, specialized in aviation.
Best For
Aviation academy for pilot, cabin crew, aircraft maintenance, and airport operations training.
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Most Similar Schools Locally
- École de l'Air et de l'Espace follows much the same lines as this institution, with logistics, aerospace and transportations as common ground, and it also offers master's and doctoral programmes and covers military and optics as well.
- Also strong in logistics, aerospace and transportations, École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile makes a sensible second look at home; it is far larger, with about 3,000 students against roughly 800 here, and is public, whereas this institution is private.
- Also strong in logistics, transportations and quality, École Nationale Supérieure Maritime makes a sensible second look at home; it also offers master's programmes and covers marine science and ecology and sustainability as well.
- For students who like the aerospace, signal processing and fluid dynamics focus of this institution but want another option nearby, ELISA Aerospace fits well: it also offers master's programmes and covers optics and structural engineering as well.
- Institut de Soudure sits close to this institution on quality, thermodynamics and project management; it covers metrology and structural engineering as well and is also a private institution.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Flight Academy of the National Aviation University offers an international parallel to this school, with logistics, aerospace and telecommunications as common ground; it also offers bachelor's and master's programmes, and is larger, enrolling about 2,000 students against roughly 800 here.
- Looking internationally, Istituto Tecnico Superiore Mobilità Sostenibile Trasporti e Logistica - Aeroporto Olbia in Italy is where logistics, aerospace and transportations get a comparable treatment; it is public, whereas this school is private, and does not run the certificate programmes found here.
- Beyond national borders, SIU Schweizerisches Institut für Unternehmerschulung stands out as a comparable school for logistics, quality and signal processing; it is also a private institution and does not run the certificate programmes found here.
- On content, Skyguide Academy, Höhere Fachschule für Flugsicherung in Switzerland and this school are close, as both teach aerospace, quality and signal processing; it does not run the certificate programmes found here and covers ergonomics and metrology as well.
- For logistics, aerospace and quality outside the home country, Istituto Tecnico Superiore Aerospazio Puglia in Italy is a natural reference; it does not run the certificate programmes found here, and is far smaller, with about 200 students against roughly 800 here.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Aerospace, Aviation, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Safety, Training
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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