Key figures

3 sites

• Polytechnique campus in Palaiseau
• Saint-Étienne campus
• Bordeaux campus (scheduled to open in 2012)

3 engineering tracks

• Standard track
• Innovation and Entrepreneurs Track
• Cooperative track

16 active partnerships with foreign universities

• Jena - Germany
• Copenhagen - Denmark
• Trondheim - Norway
• Delft - The Netherlands
• Warsaw - Poland
• Novosibirsk - Russia
• Stockholm - Sweden
• London - United Kingdom
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Rio Grande - Brazil
• Tucson, Arizona - USA
• Rochester, New York - USA
• Shanghai - China
• Osaka - Japan
• Sydney - Australia
• Prague - Czech Republic

5 double-degree programme agreements

• Tucson, Arizona - USA
• Rochester, New York - USA
• Copenhagen - Denmark
• Trondheim - Norway
• Stockholm - Sweden

276 engineering students

92 of whom are women

92 engineers graduated from Institut d’Optique in 2009

In 2009, the school awarded 60 Master in Science and Technology (physics and applications: optics, matter and plasmas)

252 teaching staff

60 administrative and technical staff

3 laboratories

• Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique
• Laboratoire Hubert Curien
• A third laboratory will be opened in Bordeaux in 2011

6 research groups at Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique

1 research topic at Laboratoire Hubert Curien

• ERIS: lighting, visual rendering, optical imaging, optical and digital security

25 researchers

52 PhD students

190 research projects completed in 2008-2009

2 Research and Higher Education Clusters (PRES)

• Founding member of the ParisTech Research and Higher Education Cluster (PRES) of 12 grandes écoles of engineering, business and management in Paris.
• Associate member of the UniverSud Research and Higher Education Cluster (PRES).