Founded in 1925, ESTACA is a private engineering school specializing in transport engineering: aeronautics, automotive, space, and railway. It has campuses in Paris-Saclay and Laval.
Home » ESTACA (École Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Laval)
Address: 12 avenue Paul Delouvrier, Campus Paris-Saclay, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Île-de-France, France
Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Railway & Urban Transport Engineering
Domains taught:
- Aerospace, AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Electrical and Electronics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Industrial Design, Logistics, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Optics, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, Sound Engineering, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics, Transportations
Diplomas*:
- Master
Status:
- Private
Partnerships:
Partnerships with major transport manufacturers (e.g., Airbus, Renault, Stellantis, Safran, Alstom, SNCF) and research centers.
Research:
Vehicle dynamics and design, Propulsion systems and alternative energies, Embedded systems for transport, Smart mobility and autonomous vehicles.
Famous Alumnis:
Jean-Pierre Beltoise (attended)
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
300
Current students***:
2200
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
10000
Pros
Leading specialized school for transport engineering, strong industry links, practical and project-based learning, passion-driven student community.
Cons
Private institution with tuition fees, highly specialized in transport.
Best For
Leading specialized engineering school for aeronautics, automotive, space, and railway engineering.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- Also strong in aerospace, optics and signal processing, ELISA Aerospace makes a sensible second look at home; it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely master's.
- Anyone who wants a second school in the same country with a similar spread of aerospace, optics and signal processing can consider IPSA, and it runs the same master's programmes, and has almost the same size, at about 2,000 students.
- The comparison with EPF École d'Ingénieurs is straightforward on subjects, since both focus on aerospace, transportations and optics, and it is slightly larger, at about 2,500 students against roughly 2,200 here, and is also a private institution.
- ESME shares the core fields of this school, namely logistics, aerospace and transportations; it covers bioengineering and life sciences as well, and has almost the same size, at about 2,000 students.
- ECE École d'Ingénieurs overlaps with this school on logistics, aerospace and transportations, so the two are easy to compare, and it covers bioengineering and life sciences as well, and is slightly larger, at about 3,000 students against roughly 2,200 here.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Seen from abroad, Higher School of Technology in Katowice (Poland) is a close relative on subject matter, since sound engineering, transportations and quality are central to both, and it has almost the same size, at about 2,000 students, and is also a private institution.
- State University of Applied Sciences in Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland pursues a similar profile in logistics, transportations and quality, and it also offers bachelor's programmes, and is slightly larger, at about 2,800 students against roughly 2,200 here.
- The closest overseas parallel on sound engineering, logistics and aerospace is SRH Hochschule Berlin, located in Germany; it also offers bachelor's and mba programmes and covers ergonomics and UX and civil engineering as well.
- Daido University, in Japan, takes a similar route through optics, signal processing and fluid dynamics; it is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 2,200 here, and is also a private institution.
- If this institution is on your list for aerospace, transportations and optics, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau in Germany deserves a comparison, because it is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 2,200 here, and is public, whereas this institution is private.
*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.
- Aeronautics, Aerospace, Automotive, Engineering, Manufacturing
*: 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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