Welcome to France

Why choose France?

 Excellence of the higher education system

• 5th destination in the world for international students
• Scholarships and support for international mobility
• A network of international academic partners
• Tuition fees lower than in most of the Western countries

Excellence in science and research

• The country of mathematicians (Viète, Laplace, Cauchy, Poincaré, Louis Bachelier…)
• Excellence in a lot of domains, e.g. chemistry, civil engineering, physics (Marie & Pierre Curie, Ampère, Laplace, Freyssinet, Coriolis, Fourier…)
• 73 Nobel prizes and 13 Fields Medals
• World famous research organizations (CNRS, INRAE, INSERM, CEA…)

An exceptional economical environment

• R&D spending = 2.2% of GDP
• International company leaders in their sector (materials, building, cosmetics, energy, transport…)
• Paris area: a dynamic region (a lot of companies, high employability rate, numerous R&D centers)
• A nation of entrepreneurs: 3.5 days to create a business in France

French language and culture

• 5th most widely spoken language in the world
• 321 million speakers
• 4th most used language on the internet
• The only language – with English – spoken on 5 continents
• A country of culture and history (museums, monuments, arts…)
• Promotion of values (freedom, equality, brotherhood, inclusion, cosmopolitism, critical thinking)

Its commitment in the ecological transition

• COP 21 in Paris
• « Make our Planet great again » programme
• Excellent research in environmental sciences
• Associations committed to fight against global warming and to preserve biodiversity