École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
Other names | ENS Paris-Saclay, Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay |
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| Type | Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel |
| Established | 1892 |
Parent institution | Paris-Saclay University |
Academic affiliations | University of Paris-Saclay, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, ASTech |
| Director | Nathalie Carrasco |
| Postgraduates | 1,360 |
| 260 | |
| Location | , France |
| Website | www |
The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɔʁmal sypeʁjœʁ paʁi saklɛ]; also ENS Paris-Saclay or Normale Sup' Paris-Saclay), formerly ENS Cachan, is a grande école and a constituent member of Paris-Saclay University. It was established in 1892. It is located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department near Paris, Île-de-France, France.
ENS Paris-Saclay is one of the most prestigious and selective French grandes écoles. Like all other grandes écoles, this elite higher education institution is not included in the mainstream framework of the French public universities. Along with the École normale supérieure (Paris), ENS Lyon and ENS Rennes, the school belongs to the informal network of French écoles normales supérieures, forming the top level of research and education in the French higher educational system.
In 2014, ENS Paris-Saclay became a founding member of the Paris-Saclay University, an initiative to integrate and combine resources from a number of different grandes écoles, public universities, and research institutions.
The school moved in 2019 to the Saclay campus located in the commune of Gif-sur-Yvette on the Saclay plateau, France's "Silicon Valley," where it will be near other members of the Paris-Saclay research-intensive and business cluster.