Institut Mines-Télécom

The Groupe des écoles des mines (French pronunciation: [ɡʁup dez‿ekɔl de min]; abbr. GEM) is a group of 8 Institut Mines-Telecom (IMT) engineering schools that are Grandes Écoles, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the Ivy League in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, Grandes Écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process. Alums go on to occupy elite positions within government, administration, and corporate firms in France.

Type

Grande école

Founded

1996

Also known as

IMT France, formerly, Groupe des ecoles des mines, formerly, Groupe des écoles des mines