Open to higher education graduates, the School offers a full range of training courses, in French and English, in all business areas of oil, natural gas and engines.
Working in close partnership with players in research and industry, the School has acquired a very widespread international reputation, as demonstrates its classes in which half the students are foreign nationals from over fifty different countries.

• A School open to higher education graduates
• Excellence in recruitment
• An increasing international commitment
• Strong industrial integration
• Tailored training courses: satellite degree programs

A school open to higher education graduates

IFP School is an integral part of IFP. They both share the same objectives: to enable society to meet the complex issues facing the sectors of energy and transport through industry.

IFP School is an application-oriented institute, open to higher education graduates, and offers training courses that lead to engineering degrees or national masters degrees.
Industry has a strong demand for personnel which should further increase over the next decade due to the new challenges related to energy transition and company population pyramids.

The School’s graduates are immediately operational in industry and are much sought-after on the labor market. 99% of students are recruited on graduation.

The applied courses offered and the excellent conditions for studying explain the large number of high-quality applications received by the School. For the 2006-2007 academic year, 342 students were selected for its specialization engineering courses from more than 2,300 applicants. The School boasts a record year, both for the size of its classes and for the number of industrial sponsorships.

Excellence in recruitment

IFP School conducts targeted promotion initiatives (forums, conferences, etc.) in France, Europe and across the world. These initiatives are a platform to demonstrate the appeal of the energy, transport and environment sectors to potential applicants.

In order to support its quality recruitment process, the School has built up partnerships with many prestigious engineering schools and universities worldwide. Academic partnerships may lead to joint training programs, for which graduates are awarded a double degree (with the United States and Russia in particular).

An increasing international commitment

Half of the IFP School’s students are from abroad, from over 40 different countries. This policy meets:

- the increasing demand for qualified personnel expressed by national companies in oil-producing countries,
- the drive of international companies operating in oil- and gas-producing countries to increase the percentage of local employees considerably.

Today, more than 11,000 former students, including 3,000 non-French graduates, work in the oil, gas and automotive sectors across the world. This network plays a key role for internationally-present French and European industries. It also contributes to the reputation of France and Europe abroad by training scientific and technical experts from many countries and regions around the globe (the Middle-East, Russia, Venezuela, etc.).

Strong industrial integration

IFP School’s success is due to an original teaching model based on partnerships with industry. Its aim is to teach both knowledge and expertise.

Over the last few years, the School has added to the technical content of its training courses with cross-disciplinary training (project management, communication, etc.), in order to make students better prepared for the societal responsibilities of tomorrow’s engineers.

Numerous types of industrial partnerships are underway.

- Apprenticeships have remained at a high level in 2006: 45% of students recruited in September 2006 chose this path.
- At the same time, the number of students sponsored by companies increased by 15%, as against 2005, demonstrating industry’s desire to build up loyalty with students before graduation.
- Industrial partnerships for sandwich courses also increased in 2006 and concern around thirty partners and 44 students. These programs offer a two-year course shared between the School and the company to students with at least four years study in higher education.

In total, 88% of students on engineering courses received support from industry at the start of the 2006 academic year.

Tailored training courses: satellite degree programs

Satellite degree programs are a way of supporting developing countries, by training their future managers. They are in keeping with our sustainable development objectives.

In 2006, IFP School stepped up its satellite programs. Many training courses were organized in foreign countries, in cooperation with local academic and industrial partners.

Running alongside continuing programs in Algeria, Angola, Iran and Nigeria, a new geosciences program was launched in Malaysia in July 2006. Students on these training courses, organized in partnership with IFP Training are awarded a masters degree from the School.