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Ecole Normale Superieure Paris is
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Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris also known as Normale sup’, Normale, and ENS) is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles (higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities system). The ENS was initially conceived during the French Revolution, and it was intended to provide the Republic with a new body of teachers, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the Enlightenment. It has since developed into an elite institution which has become a platform for many of France's brightest young people to pursue high-level careers in government and academia. Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris offers different kind of undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs.
Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris campus is located around the rue d'Ulm, the main building being at 45 rue d'Ulm) in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The ENS-Ulm has annex campuses on Boulevard Jourdan (previously, the women's college), and in Montrouge as well as a biology annex in the countryside at Foljuif. 2 other Ecole Normale Superieure were established in the 19th century: the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (sciences & humanities); and the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (pure and applied sciences, sociology, economics and management, English language) in Cachan. All 3 together form the informal ENS-group.
Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris alumni have provided France with scores of philosophers, writers, scientists, statesmen and even churchmen. Among them are 12 Nobel Prize laureates, 10 Fields Medalists, 1 Gauss Prize laureate, and 2 recipients of the John Bates Clark Medal in Economics. For a long time, women were taught at a separate ENS. The two were merged, after some heated debate, into a single entity, with its main campus at the historic site at the rue d'Ulm in Paris. Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris system is different from that of most higher education systems outside France, although it has been copied since Napoleonic times, for instance in Italy. Nevertheless, the THE-QS World University Rankings (From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings) ranked it the best higher-education institution in Continental Europe in 2006 and 2007.
Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris is a member of Paris Sciences et Lettres - Quartier latin, a union of five higher education institutions, all located in Paris, which aims at achieving cooperations and synergies in the academic field. The École Normale Supérieure cooperates in Atomium Culture, the first Permanent Platform for European Excellence that brings together some of Europe's leading universities, newspapers and businesses.
Originally founded to train high school teachers through the agrégation, Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris is now an institution training researchers, professors, high-level civil servants, as well as business and political leaders. It focuses on the association of training and research, with an emphasis on freedom of curriculum. Its alumni include ten laureates of the Fields Medal (all French holders of the Fields medal were educated at the École Normale Supérieure), as well as several Nobel Prize winners in both science and literature.
Like many other grandes écoles, Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris mostly enrolls its students two or three years after high school. The majority of them come from prépas (preparatory classes, see grandes écoles) and have to pass France's most selective competitive exams. Studies at ENS last four years. Many students devote the third year to the agrégation, which allows them to teach in high schools or universities. ENS-Ulm annually enrolls about 100 students in science and the same number in the humanities. The normaliens, as the students of Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris are known, are expected to maintain a level of excellence in the various disciplines in which they are trained. Normaliens from France and other European Union countries are considered civil servants in training. As such, they are paid a monthly salary (about 1300€), in exchange for an agreement to serve France for 10 years, including their studies. Although it is seldom applied in practice, this exclusivity clause is redeemable (often by the hiring firm). Apart from the normaliens, Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris also welcomes selected foreign students ("international selection"), as well as selected students from neighboring universities, to follow the same curriculum but without a stipend. It also participates in various graduate programs and has extensive research laboratories.
Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris offers students more than just a place to study, but provides them with a true university campus. At the ENS, living and learning are intimately connected. As the only residential campus in Paris, the ENS differs from other academic institutions. Residents not only benefit from direct proximity to their departments and laboratories, but also establish an intimate intellectual community and establish life-long friendships. In addition to the vast central campus located in the heart of the Quartier Latin, Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris boasts two other campuses - Jourdan, near Parc Montsouris, and Montrouge in the nearby suburbs. Each site has its own accommodations. The campuses also provide several restaurants, cozy cafes and many other student facilities: computing suites, television rooms, music and dance studios, a multi-functional cinema (the former Cinémathèque de Paris), a tennis court, and a gym.
The primary mission of Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris libraries is to accompany students through the duration of their research-based training at the ENS. This mission is accompanied by a vocation to assist research, at the graduate level and beyond, with information culled from high-level, general collections that include several exceptional, specialized archives in mathematics, classical sciences, and German philosophy. For mathematicians as for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, the ENS libraries amount to genuine "laboratories," where the open-stack shelves allow direct access to millions of documentary resources.
Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris is a students’ community as well as a place to study: the student in physics can meet the philosopher at the ciné-club, the geographer dances with the hellenist, the musicologist meets the informatician at the photo club and the economist plays rugby with the archeologist. With more than 50 student-run groups proposing a diverse range of cultural, artistic and sporting activities, Ecole Normale Superieure – ENS Paris community enjoys a rich and varied panorama of extra-curricular options. Students can choose to participate in fencing clubs, media and cinema associations, theater and improvisation groups, public service organizations and more. Campus-wide social events are also regularly organized. At the start of each academic year, the Social Activities Organizing Committee (Comité d’Organisation des Fêtes - COF) organizes the "Méga," an integration weekend for new students and oversees preparations for La Nuit de la rue d’Ulm, the ENS’s traditional gala.
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