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Université de Technologie de Compiègne


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The Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) is a renowned public research university in Compiègne, France, specializing in engineering, technology, and interdisciplinary sciences. Established in 1972, it is part of the French network of Universities of Technology (UT), which combines theoretical education with hands-on, project-based learning to prepare students for careers in innovation and engineering.

The Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) is a renowned public research university in Compiègne, France, specializing in engineering, technology, and interdisciplinary sciences. Established in 1972, it is part of the French network of Universities of Technology (UT), which combines theoretical education with hands-on, project-based learning to prepare students for careers in innovation and engineering.

Key Features

  1. Engineering Excellence: UTC offers degrees in fields such as mechanical engineering, computer science, bioengineering, urban systems engineering, and industrial design.
  2. Innovative Pedagogy: Its educational model emphasizes flexibility and personalization, allowing students to design their academic pathways while gaining real-world experience through internships and projects.
  3. Research Leadership: UTC is a hub for cutting-edge research in areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, sustainable development, and biomedical technologies. The university collaborates with industries and international institutions to drive innovation.
  4. International Reach: UTC partners with universities worldwide, offering students opportunities for exchange programs and dual degrees. Courses are often delivered in both French and English to attract a global student body.
  5. Campus Environment: Located in the picturesque town of Compiègne, about 80 km north of Paris, the university combines modern facilities with a rich cultural and historical setting. UTC is recognized as one of France’s leading institutions for engineering education, consistently ranked among the top in its field.

Our values

The UTC model

  • UTC presents a training model where engineering sciences, human and social sciences, economic and political sciences are harmoniously integrated into the service of the education of the engineer, the scientist, the manager of the future, innovative, humanist, able to master the challenges of complexity in an information and communication society.
  • UTC is an institution that produces meaning for our societies, in which different cultures and different ways of understanding the world can dialogue.
  • It is a place where innovation is constantly being expressed.

Our missions

Building the future

  • UTC thus aims to position itself as a major world-class European university of technology, with a strong focus on creativity and innovation.
  • Through creativity, we affirm that we want to play a major role in the battle of ideas at the dawn of the 21st century. Developing students' creativity relies on the promotion of transversal, multidisciplinary and intercultural approaches, with strong support from research. It also requires a strengthening of the art base, the driving force of innovation, and of culture, a factor in the development of citizenship and growth.
  • Through innovation, we claim to fully assume our triple mission of producing knowledge and know-how, of transmitting it, but also of transforming it into innovations of all kinds, by man, in the service of man and society.

Such a vision, consistent with UTC's values, modern in its vision of the role of the university and original in its ambition for creativity, implies that a certain number of conditions are satisfied:

  • a vision carried by a strong UTC community mobilized to support a project understood and shared by all;
  • an efficient, responsive, mobilizing organization and governance that makes entities and personnel profitable;
  • a development built with and for our students;
  • an ability to attract talent, mobilize, develop, support and enhance human resources;
  • an increase and diversification of financial resources;
  • a policy of strategic alliances and networks, particularly within the framework of strong territorial anchoring.

Our commitments

  • Ensure excellent disciplinary and thematic research, carried out by a collective committed to interdisciplinarity and open to the issues of its environment.
  • Produce knowledge and skills through research.
  • Transmit knowledge through training and support students in a spirit of innovation.
  • Introduce knowledge and innovations into a transformation process in order to bring out inventions.

  • 4400 students
  • -30 days average job search time
  • 28300 graduates worldwide
  • +300 UV on the map

    Post-baccalaureate admissions

    • Compulsory Math specialty in 1st and final year
    • Math specialty appreciated in the final year
    • Specialization in SES or History-Geography, Political Science, Geopolitics or Digital and Computer Science, preferably
    • Access only in September
    • Admissions on Parcoursup (file + interview)

    Apply for a master's degree

    For an M1 application

    Not affected by MonMaster:

    • candidates of foreign nationality (excluding nationals of the European Economic Area, Andorra, Switzerland or Monaco) whose country of residence is covered by the Études en France scheme: these candidates
    • must apply for the first year of the master's degree via the Campus France platform ;
    • students authorized to repeat their first year of master's degree;
    • candidates wishing to be admitted to the first year of a master's degree through validation of higher education (VES); validation of professional experience (VAP), or validation of acquired experience (VAE);
    • students whose course automatically provides for admission to the first year of a master's degree, in particular students on the master's course in engineering (CMI).

    For an M2 application

    • If you are a foreign student whose country of residence is covered by the Études en France scheme, you are required to apply via the Campus France platform.
    • If you are a foreign student whose country of residence is not covered by the Studies in France scheme, you can apply on the UTC application platform.

    Apply for the UTC Engineering Diploma

    • Students are admitted based on qualifications, academic records and motivational interviews.
    • The procedure is common to the three universities of technology: the file is completed only online, for both French and foreign candidates.
    • Depending on your profile, you will be invited for a group interview or an individual interview to assess your motivation. In both cases, you will be invited for half a day (8:45 a.m./12 p.m. or 1:45 p.m./5 p.m. depending on your order of appearance).
    • If you are a foreign candidate (Bac+2 and above), you must, before submitting your application file, register on the website www.campusfrance.org to obtain your file number.
    • If you are studying abroad , the interview, if it takes place, will be organized virtually. A good knowledge of the French language is necessary.
      • If you are a foreign candidate (Bac+2 and above), you must, before submitting your application file, register on the website www.campusfrance.org to obtain your file number.
      • If you are studying abroad , the interview, if it takes place, will be organized virtually. A good knowledge of the French language is necessary.

    The application fee rate for the admission of students to prepare for the engineering diploma is set at 105 euros (in accordance with the decree of February 26, 2021 setting the application fees).

    State scholarships managed by CROUS

    These scholarships provide financial assistance or student accommodation and are awarded based on social criteria for:

    • French students;
    • foreign students, political refugees holding a political refugee card or whose parents have resided in France for more than 2 years

    The scholarship and/or accommodation are awarded (in the application of a scale updated each year) according to resources and family expenses ( information at the CROUS of Amiens and at the reception of the university residence). The answers are sent directly to the students by the CROUS.

    Please note: If you are in your final year of engineering and are also studying for a master's degree, you are not eligible for a master's scholarship. You are covered by the higher education scholarship system based on social criteria.

    • UTC is ranked 2nd among public post-baccalaureate schools by Le Figaro 2025 ranking of engineering schools
    • UTC is ranked 3rd in the Eduniversal 2024 ranking of the best public post-baccalaureate general engineering schools
    • UTC 1st in the 2024 ranking of the best post-baccalaureate engineering schools by L'Obs
    • UTC 1st in the 2024 ranking of the best post-bac engineering schools on Parcoursup
    • UTC is ranked 4th among public post-baccalaureate schools by Usine Nouvelle (2nd among general public post-baccalaureate schools)
    • L'Etudiant has published its 2024 ranking of engineering schools: UTC is in 3rd place among public post-baccalaureate schools (tuition fees €601). Furthermore, it ranks 1st among public post-baccalaureate schools in the “Academic Excellence” category.
    • For its first participation, UTC is in 11th place in the general ranking in the 2023 ChangeNOW/Les Echos. Furthermore, UTC is in Furthermore, UTC is in 5th place in the “Academic excellence and employability” category.
    • UTC 1st in the 2023 ranking of the best post-baccalaureate engineering schools by L'Obs
    • Le Figaro has revealed its 2023 ranking of engineering schools. UTC is ranked 2nd among post -baccalaureate schools.
    • UTC is ranked 3rd among public post-baccalaureate schools by Usine Nouvelle
    • The Times Higher Education 2023 international rankied UTC between 1201st and 1500th overall.
    • UTC is also the 6th French university in the "international outlook" category and the 24th French university in the "Industry income" category.

    Life on the UTC Campus

    The UTC campus sites are located in various sectors of Compiegne and indeed have been integral parts of the City since the university began. To the extent that the student population represents 12% of all Compiegne inhabitants, they have radically changed the image of Compiegne. This has led to a dynamic, associative and cultural student life displaying a wide diversity. There are over 100 cultural and sports associations registered with the Students’ Office (buzz-word BDE), some of which have extended their networks to have antennae in numerous other European countries. With a large number of cultural solidarity-intensive projects in town and its regional surrounds, UTC students take an active part in contributing to Compiegne’s lifestyle, thereby reinforcing the connection with the local authorities bringing “science to the heart” of the City.

    Master plan for improving student life at UTC, 2024–2028

    • Based on the strength of these values, we have drafted UTC's first Master Plan for Student Life (MPSL) in our own image, and we have preferred to call it the 'Student Life Improvement Master Plan' in order to be more in line with the already rich array of existing activities at UTC. We have therefore opted for a co-construction approach, placing students at the heart of the reflection and drafting of proposals.

    A university in the city

    UTC today is expanding its operations and not only is a major actor in Compiegne’s Technopole but benefits from an exceptional natural and historic environment. There is the Imperial Place (Louis XV and XVI, rearranged under Napoléon 1st and Napoléon III), one of Europe’s most beautiful forests, the WWI Armistice clearing, the Memorial to the Deported Populations, the national horse stud farms … all of which are conducive to personal development of UTC’s students.

    • The Benjamin Franklin building - Main uses – undergraduate engineering lectures, classrooms and seminars, the university library and the UTC pedagogical pole
    • The UTC Research Centre - Laboratories, Master's degrees, PhD courses and supervision
    • The Pierre Guillaumat Centre - Course and seminar classrooms and various Administration Services
    • The Transfert Centre - Courses, seminars and administrative services
    • The Daniel Thomas Innovation Centre - Projects
    • UTC Paris - Continuing education
    • UTSEUS - First Sino-French university cooperation

    UTC associations

    • The UTC students' union (BDE)
    • The artistic and event-intensive pole (PAE)
    • The solidaity and citizenship pole (PSEC)
    • The technology and entrepreneurship pole (PTE)
    • The Campus Life pole (PVDC)
    • The UTC Gala

    Sports activities are strongly encouraged

    The sports' pillars at UTC

    • The university Sports and Physical Exercice Service (SUAPS)
    • The UTC Sports Association (UTC Sport)

    Sport elite - 'Sport elite', for high-level athletes

    The disabled Students Bureau

    Study adjustments possible

    • help with note-taking during course lectures,
    • tutoring among students,
    • curriculum development,
    • photocopy access card,
    • provision of teaching materials or adapted means/equipment

    Examination adjustments

    • Increased composition time (up to one-third of exam allotted time),
    • adaptation of examination subjects,
    • examination secretariat help,
    • exam composition on a laptop computer.

    An attentive support team at the Disabled Students Bureau

    • The Disabled Students advisor, Virginie Leviel, is in charge of welcoming and accompanying students with disabilities or those suffering from disabling health problems.
    • The doctor of the Preventive Medicine service, Dr Alice Hoogendoorn, (qualified CDPAH), is in charge of studying the requests for exam adjustments;
    • The Director of Student Training and Pedagogy, Étienne Arnoult, and the Head of Engineering Training, Antoine Jouglet, decide on the academic adjustments granted to students, on behalf of the Director of the institution. They both participate, upstream, in the reflection in terms of the implementation of actions that allow for better inclusion of UTC’s disabled students;
    • The Health and Safety Officer, Carolina Lacome, supervises the actions carried out by the Disabled Student Bureau.

    Student aid services

    • Library premise at the Benjamin Franklin building
    • Library premise at the Royallieu Research Centre
    • Elliot, the documentary portal gateway
    • UTC, a digitized university

    • Compiègne

      Rue Roger Couttolenc

    Université de Technologie de Compiègne