Founded in 1881, ENSAIT is a public engineering grande école specializing in textile engineering, covering areas from materials science and production to technical textiles and smart fabrics.
Address: 2 allée Louise et Victor Champier, BP 30329, 59056 Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France
Textile Engineering & Materials, Smart Textiles & Wearable Technology, Sustainable Textiles & Circular Economy
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Chemistry, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Nanotechnologies, Optics, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Software Engineering, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics
Diplomas*:
- Doctor, Master
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Partnerships with textile industry (e.g., Decathlon, CETI), fashion brands, and research centers focused on innovative materials.
Research:
Advanced textile materials and processes, Smart textiles and e-textiles, Sustainable and circular textiles, Nonwoven technology, Textile chemistry and finishing.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
100
Current students***:
400
Foreign students***:
20%
Cumulative former students***:
7000
Pros
Leading European institution for textile engineering, strong research in innovative textiles, good industry connections.
Cons
Highly specialized in textiles.
Best For
Leading engineering school for textile engineering, smart textiles, and sustainable materials.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- Also strong in fluid dynamics, industrial design and structural engineering, ENSISA makes a sensible second look at home; it covers signal processing and computer vision as well, and is larger, enrolling about 700 students against roughly 400 here.
- ENSTIB takes a similar route through quality, fluid dynamics and industrial design, and it has almost the same size, at about 400 students, and is also a public institution.
- Also strong in fluid dynamics, structural engineering and thermodynamics, IMT Mines Alès makes a sensible second look at home; it covers geotechnics and civil engineering as well, and is far larger, with about 1,300 students against roughly 400 here.
- Mines Saint-Étienne sits close to this institution on nanotechnologies, optics and fluid dynamics; it is also a public institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely master's and doctoral.
- Think of École Supérieure du Bois when quality, fluid dynamics and industrial design is the priority: it teaches at the same levels, namely master's and doctoral, and covers agriculture and civil engineering as well.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, in Japan, takes a similar route through quality, optics and industrial design; it has almost the same size, at about 400 students, and is also a public institution.
- Paul Scherrer Institut brings a Switzerland setting to the same core fields, quality, nanotechnologies and fluid dynamics, and it runs the same master's and doctoral programmes and covers metrology and astroscience as well.
- Empa - Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt in Switzerland is the nearest foreign match on quality, nanotechnologies and fluid dynamics; it covers metrology and signal processing as well, and is smaller, enrolling about 200 students against roughly 400 here.
- For quality, nanotechnologies and optics outside the home country, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in China is a natural reference; it covers microbiology and genetics and signal processing as well, and is far larger, with about 28,000 students against roughly 400 here.
- Technische Universiteit Delft offers an international parallel to this institution, with nanotechnologies, optics and fluid dynamics as common ground; it covers marine science and aerospace as well, and is far larger, with about 27,500 students against roughly 400 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.
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Circular Economy, Innovation, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Materials, Wearable Technology
*: 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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