Engineering studies

ENGINEERING CURRICULUM

• EURECOM’s new curriculum was designed to be in keeping with the new European diploma norms (bachelors, masters, doctorate) standards and the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) system of cumulative credits.
• EURECOM offers programs at the graduate level (masters and doctorate).

SEMESTERS

• The curriculum is based on the model of cumulative value units called “long modules” (42 hours-5 credits) or “short modules” (21 hours–3 credits).
• The studies are divided into semesters : from one to four (see the 24, 18, 12/6 months curriculum).
• This system, which covers both the first and second-year programs, without distinction, gives greater flexibility in the choice of courses and planning of the curriculum for students.
• One half-day per week is devoted to sports and cultural activities (Thursday afternoon, so students can take part in university sports competitions with other schools).

Tracks

• To help students select their courses, the curriculum is organized around 7 teaching tracks.
• EURECOM currently offers 7 tracks :
  • Networking
  • Communications systems security
  • Web Engineering
  • Multimedia
  • Mobile Communications
  • Transmission Technologies
  • Real Time and Embedded Systems

Training modules

• Technical Modules

A catalog of about 50 technical modules is offered.

• General teaching

A catalog of about 10 non-technical modules is offered.

• Foreign languages

Because of the diversity of the nationalities represented at EURECOM, language classes are offered based on the level and number of students interested. Six languages are generally offered: German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and French.
Other languages can be taught if a sufficient number of students of the same level are interested. For example, for the 2006 Class, a Chinese course was set up.

Engineering internship

A six-month internship in a company is mandatory to validate the studies.