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ESITC Cachan (École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs des Travaux de la Construction de Cachan)

France

Address: 28 avenue du Président Wilson, 94230 Cachan, Île-de-France, France

Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Geotechnical Engineering (via apprenticeship)

ESITC Cachan (now BUILDERS École d’ingénieurs – site de Paris) is a private engineering school specializing in civil engineering, construction, and public works, offering apprenticeship programs. This URL points to the Cachan site, but the main brand is now BUILDERS.

Domains taught:

Civil Engineering, Ecology and Sustainability, Engineering, Geotechnics, Industrial Design, Logistics, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Structural Engineering, Thermodynamics, Transportations

Diplomas*:

Master

Status:

Private

Partnerships:

Part of BUILDERS École d’ingénieurs. Strong partnerships with construction companies for apprenticeship programs.

Research:

Sustainable construction, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Geotechnics and foundation engineering, Road and network construction.

Famous Alumnis:

N/A

International recognition**:

Number of staff***:

Current students***:

Foreign students***:

Cumulative former students***:

Pros

Focus on apprenticeship and professional integration in construction, strong industry links, practical skills development.

Cons

Private institution with tuition fees, now part of a larger entity (BUILDERS). Its specific Cachan identity might be less prominent.

Best For

Apprenticeship-focused engineering school for civil engineering and construction.

Most Similar Schools Locally

In terms of fields, ESITC Caen is the nearest neighbour, with logistics, transportations and quality again at the core; it teaches at the same levels, namely master's, and enrols about 500 students.
Anyone who wants a second school in the same country with a similar spread of logistics, transportations and quality can consider ESITC Metz, and it enrols about 400 students and is also a private institution.
ESITC Bordeaux works in much the same fields, chiefly logistics, transportations and quality, and it is also a private institution and runs the same master's programmes.
ESITC Lyon follows much the same lines as this institution, with logistics, transportations and quality as common ground, and it enrols about 350 students and is also a private institution.
ESITC Paris offers a comparable education in logistics, transportations and quality: it is also a private institution and runs the same master's programmes.

Most Similar Schools Abroad

Berner Fachhochschule, Departement Architektur, Holz und Bau in Switzerland shares the quality, geotechnics and industrial design orientation of this institution, and it is public, whereas this institution is private, and also offers bachelor's programmes.
A foreign alternative with a similar emphasis on quality, geotechnics and civil engineering is CAMPUS SURSEE Bildungszentrum Bau, Höhere Fachschule in Switzerland, and it also offers diploma programmes and covers metrology as well.
Penza State University of Architecture and Construction, in Russia, takes a similar route through transportations, industrial design and civil engineering; it is public, whereas this school is private, and also offers bachelor's and doctoral programmes.
Seen from abroad, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola (Germany) is a close relative on subject matter, since logistics, transportations and quality are central to both, and it also offers bachelor's programmes and covers metrology and signal processing as well.
Stanisław Staszic State University of Applied Sciences in Piła brings a Poland setting to the same core fields, transportations, quality and geotechnics, and it covers fluid dynamics and telecommunications as well, and enrols about 2,500 students.

*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.

Building Information Modeling (BIM), Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Practices

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*: 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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