École des mines de Nantes

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Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nantes (Mines Nantes)
Type Grandes Ecoles
Location Nantes, France
Campus Nantes
Affiliations Institut Mines-Télécom (Mines Télécom Institut of Technology), Groupe des écoles des Mines,Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Website [1], [2]


The École des Mines de Nantes, or École nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes (Mines Nantes) is a French high-level engineering school (grande école), part of the prestigious Institut Mines-Télécom. The school is based in Nantes, in the west of France.

The school offers 10 majors :


The EMN has also signed agreements with Audencia Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies.

Teaching philosophy [edit]

Albeit it offers a rather typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach of the technical and business skills it teaches. This philosophy is illustrated by programs such as the Apprentissage Par l'Action ("Learning through interaction"), a case-based approach of sciences, that places students in front of industry-inspired puzzles and develops students analytic skills and intellectual curiosity. The EMN is also a partner of "La main à la pâte" ("hands in the dough"), an innovative initiative to teach sciences in primary courses supported by Georges Charpak, Nobel Prize winner.

Other schools of Mines in France [edit]


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Coordinates: 47°16′56″N 1°31′15″W / 47.28222°N 1.52083°W / 47.28222; -1.52083