PSL Research University Paris Sciences and Letters (PRES)

Created by the University Paris Sciences & Lettres and Lycée Henri-IV, the CPES is a selective and demanding 1st cycle, in the heart of Paris. Carried by the most prestigious French universities worldwide, the CPES trains students with very high potential, creative and audacious. With an objective: to reveal the new decision-makers, researchers and entrepreneurs of the economic, academic and cultural worlds. Hybridation pédagogique inédite (classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles / université), spécialisation progressive, interdisciplinarité, et mise en contact précoce avec le monde de la recherche pour favoriser l'innovation, la réflexivité et la créativité. Who is the CPES? The CPES is a training of great exigency, destined to curious students, creative, and critics on the world, from France or from abroad. The CPES is for you, if ... ... You do not want to specialize too soon after the baccalaureate, you prefer to benefit from a real multidisciplinarity with bridges between paths, allowing to gradually refine your choice of orientation. ... You want to supervise proximity within classes with limited numbers, such as in CPGE, but without the stress of the competitions. ... You want to discover new disciplines, through training through research, promoting self-employment, reflexivity, creativity, as in the best academic courses. ... You only project yourself in a formation leaving a great place to the teachings of general culture, the learning of the languages ​​and the artistic practices. ... Your curiosity and your natural openness to others make you want to integrate a plural promotion, rich in its human, social, geographical and disciplinary diversity. ... Finally, you want to join a university of world rank, in the heart of Paris.