About us
IMT Nord Europe is a public scientific, cultural and professional establishment (EPSCP) and one of 204 French engineering schools accredited by the CTI to deliver an engineering degree (CDEFI 2023 data).
The school is one of the largest engineering schools north of Paris, with over 2,000 students—a third of whom are apprentices—more than 600 graduates a year, and a network of 16,000 alumni.
An Institut Mines-Télécom school, a French federal institute of technological universities of science and management, IMT Nord Europe is affiliated with the Ministry of the Economy and Finance in charge of industry and digital technology and is a partner of Université de Lille.
IMT Nord Europe is a generalist school with locations in Douai, Lille, Valenciennes, Dunkirk and Alençon, the result of the 2017 merger of two leading engineering schools: École des Mines de Douai (founded in 1878) and Télécom Lille (founded in 1990).
IMT Nord Europe engineers are renowned for their commitment to making an impact toward a future that respects the environment. They are versatile and experienced, with high-level scientific and technical skills and great leadership capabilities. Graduates are open-minded and invested in the world, conveying the School’s values of excellence, integrity and humanism.
Our three missions
- Educate both generalist and specialist engineers (through apprenticeships)
- Foster excellence in research
- Support innovation and economic development
To develop new skills and competencies, IMT Nord Europe incorporates:
- 3 Centers for Education, Research and Innovation (CERI): Energy Environment, Materials and Processes, and Digital Systems.
- and 2 departments: Science Fundamentals and International Management
Our three values:
Staff and students share the values of excellence, integrity and humanism.
Our ambition
Based on the Institut Mines-Télécom’s mission statement established in 2021, “All together to imagine and build a sustainable future and to train its key stakeholders”, and on Institut Mines-Télécom’s 2023 – 2027 strategy to help meet the major challenges facing our country, particularly in industry, technology and society, IMT Nord Europe describes its ambition as follows:
“Train today’s talent and shape future knowledge to support the environmental, digital and industrial transitions.”
I'M Tomorrow
This ambition can be summed up in our brand’s signature: I’M Tomorrow
“More than just a signature, I’M Tomorrow is the expression of our School’s proactive, committed strategy to building a better tomorrow, involving a new generation of engineers in the reality of current and future economic, environmental and technological challenges,” says Alain Schmitt, Director of IMT Nord Europe.
Research and innovation
Research and innovation are at the core of what we do. They allow us to keep our courses up to date and prepare our students for the changes to come in science and technology. We promote innovation and creativity in our course modules, our original teaching methods and our students’ projects, starting from the very first year of the engineering program.
Our 3 Centers for Education, Research and Innovation (CERI) comprise around one hundred people each. Our 2 departments (Scientific Fundamentals and International Management) count a dozen people each.
CERI and the departments work together in a cross-disciplinary way to encourage systemic, multidisciplinary approaches.
Education through research via doctorate degrees is also one of IMT Nord Europe’s missions.
International
As a signatory of the Erasmus+ charter, IMT Nord Europe is resolutely open to the world. All student engineers spend time abroad. Spending a semester in an international internship or study abroad program is required for student-engineers with student status.
Our students can take advantage of 30 international dual degree agreements with prestigious institutions on all continents. In 2023, 23% of our graduates were dual graduates with a foreign institution.
Institut Mines-Télécom is a founding member of the consortium EULiST (European Universities Linking Society and Technology) that was established in 2020 as part of the “European Universities” initiative set up by the European Commission to modernize higher education in Europe in a global, sustainable way. In EULiST, ten partners join their complementary strengths with IMT in the engineering sciences, social sciences and humanities.
2023 key figures
- 2,204 students, of which 24% were women,
- 98% of students admitted post-secondary school in 2021 had earned their baccalaureate with honors or with highest honors
- 704 graduates, with 609 engineering graduates and 34% through apprenticeship programs
- 127 foreign partner institutions
- 30 international dual degree agreements (23% of dual degrees are with a foreign institution)
- A network of 16,000 alumni
- 90.8% of students recruited prior to graduation or two months thereafter
- Average starting salary: €42K gross/year
- 366 permanent staff including 127 faculty members
- 154 PhD and postdoctoral students
- A budget of €54.5 million
- €7.95 million in contractual research activity and technology transfers