École Polytechnique ranks first among Engineering Schools for cooperation with businesses

École Polytechnique is the winner in the Engineering Schools category of the second edition of the ranking of cooperation between higher education institutions and businesses, published on February 5 by News Tank and Emerging at the Think Education and Research event. 

Produced by Emerging, the ranking is based on responses from 1,080 French professionals with significant experience in recruiting and managing young graduates.

They were asked to select, from among 90 institutions (engineering schools, business schools, IAE, universities, and similar institutions), those they considered to be particularly effective in terms of the employability of their graduates and the quality of their cooperation with businesses. The survey was conducted between July 2025 and October 2025. 

This ranking is part of the 15th edition of the GEURS – Global Employability University Ranking & Survey, of which it is a specific version, applied to a sample of French employers. The Global Employability University Ranking and Survey assesses the performance of higher education institutions in terms of the employability of their graduates based on employer expectations.

News Tank and Emerging also awarded special prizes, one of which went to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, which brings together six leading French Engineering Schools (École polytechnique, ENSTA, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris, and TélécomSudParis), and the other to ENSAE Paris. 

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris won the special prize for cooperation structuring, rewarding the “collective and structural performance” of all the institutions that comprise it, based on their methods of cooperation. ENSAE Paris was awarded the prize for content relevance, which “recognizes an institution for the consistency and high standards of its educational content, as well as its ability to train students to be immediately employable in complex and rapidly changing professional environments.”