The Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which the École Polytechnique is a founding member, has moved up 24 places in THE 2024 ranking of the world's top universities. Three other French higher education and research establishments are in the Top 75 of this ranking.
École Polytechnique hosted the 15th edition of the International Physicists’Tournament (IPT), which brought together 18 teams from international higher education institutions from April 23 to 29 this year. After winning the tournament three times in a row, the X team finished in fifth.
The French Chemists Tournament 2023, organized at École Polytechnique, brought together nine teams from nine different French higher education institutions. Derived from the format of the International Physicists' Tournament, TFChim is opened to higher education students in chemistry.
École Polytechnique heads once again the top engineering school in the 2023 ranking released by the newspaper Le Figaro, which has published the names and scores of the top ten schools. Three other schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which X is a founding member, appear in this list of the top 10 French Engineering Schools: Télécom Paris, ENSAE Paris and ENSTA Paris.
Nineteen École Polytechnique alumni have been chosen by the French think tank Institut Choiseul in its annual ranking of the top 200 young French economic leaders, seven of them appearing in the top 100.
