The French engineer education system (système d'école d'ingénieur) was founded by Napoleon, whose main purpose is to overcome the shortcomings of the separation between theory and practice of students trained by traditional national universities. After hundreds of years, it has formed its own distinctive characteristics in the world and enjoys a high reputation in the world. Engineering colleges are divided into three-year and five-year programs, among which three-year colleges are famous and have a high level. Different from the titles of engineers in China, the titles of engineers have a high status in France. The title of "engineer" is protected by law in France and is a symbol of reputation. French society has a sense of identity close to worship for engineer certificates, and the employment rate and social status of graduates from engineering colleges are very high. Over the past 200 years, the French engineer education system has trained outstanding national leaders such as Mitterrand, Chirac and Jospin and many Nobel Prize winners. According to the statistics of economists, 60% of the presidents and most of the senior managers of the top 200 enterprises in France are from elite colleges in France. It can be said that China is a country that runs the country by engineering.

The French Institute of Engineers has the following characteristics: First, it has a small scale, few specialties and a high degree of specialization, and its teaching environment is close to or even equal to the actual technical environment of the industry. So it is very common that there are only a few hundred students in hundreds of years old schools. This system is very close to the graduate schools in China, which only trains masters, engineers and doctors, and does not carry out undergraduate education and basic scientific research, but participates in the research work of enterprise industrial projects. Two, the French engineer education system is five years (three-year junior college requires two years of preparatory education), which is equivalent to the master's degree in western countries (the United States, Britain, Canada). After graduation, you can get a French engineer certificate and a French master's degree in engineering. (The engineer education system in France is not equivalent in other countries' higher education systems, but the degree corresponding to Europe and America should be a master's degree in Europe and America. )

As a unique elite education in France, engineer education is less authorized and more popular than doctoral education in France. The annual salary of a French engineer diploma is about 35,000 euros, while the annual salary of a young university lecturer who is a doctor is less than 20,000 euros. The starting salary of the master of economic management in private enterprises is about 25,000 euros, which is higher than other masters. According to statistics, in recent years, the aerospace field has always been the most ideal industry choice for graduates from elite French engineering colleges.

French national education funds are greatly tilted towards engineering colleges. Students who enter such schools often undergo very strict selection; The school has also accumulated its own effective teaching methods in years of teaching; The mature school-enterprise cooperation model not only provides a lot of financial support, but also provides many internship opportunities for its students. All these fully ensure the teaching quality of engineering college. In addition, the employment rate of engineering school graduates is very high. Statistics show that 70% of students found jobs before graduation, and the rest can basically find jobs within three months after graduation, which is much higher than that of ordinary public universities (Université). The salary of graduates in the first year of work is also relatively high, with an average of about 200,000 francs (that is, 220,000 RMB), and some initial monthly incomes are even as high as 3,500 euros or more; Graduates from engineering colleges often enter the upper class of society in the future, so they are called elite education system. At present, more than 70% middle-class people in France have graduated from schools like GRANDE ECOLE. According to French newspapers, 67% of the children of senior cadres of enterprises who have received elite education in France will also receive elite education and become the upper class of society. Only 24% of ordinary families will receive elite education.