IFP School

IFP School provides young engineers with advanced graduate programs leading to professional qualifications in the fields of:

• energy,
• and transport.

It has a dual ambition:

• to provide industry with the skills it needs today,
• to train the future energy transition players.

To achieve these objectives, it focuses on:

• a high level of industrial integration,
• and adopts a resolutely international approach.

Meeting the needs of industry today and tomorrow

IFP School is supported by close partnerships with industry, which take a variety of forms. More than, 80% of IFP School students are sponsored and funded by around 50 French and foreign companies. This support has remained stable despite the economic crisis, demonstrating the strength of the School’s economic model.

In addition, the number of students is adjusted in liaison with partner companies on the basis of recruitment opportunities. The strategy ensures that IFP School remains in step with industry requirements.

Similarly, IFP School also updates the content of its courses.

In the energy transition context, course units have been developed on:

• energy efficiency,
• biofuels,
• and, more generally, on New Energy Technologies (NETs).

Thanks to the skills acquired, IFP School graduates are immediately operational for the energy and transport sectors and prepared for the jobs of the future in the field of NETs.

A cutting-edge teaching model

Industry has begun its digital revolution and, with it, professions are evolving. To reflect this, IFP School has introduced a significant digital component into its Masters programs, both in terms of program themes (data management, connected vehicles, energy efficiency and biofuels, for example) and the teaching methods and tools employed.

IFP School has two objectives:

• to adapt to and meet the evolving needs of industry,
• while enhancing the employability of its future graduates.

IFP School employs innovative teaching methods promoting knowledge and learning by experimentation: this is known as learning by doing. The idea is to use field placements, case studies and interactive technologies, such as flipped classrooms, MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) and serious games, to validate knowledge. The technologies used may be immersive in nature, such as virtual reality, which provides a means of getting fully immersed in spheres which are difficult to access or highly regulated, or mobile learning tools, which, in the context of field trips, provide students with access to data specific to the location they are studying via a tablet application.

The School thus boasts a range of facilities and tools designed to help students shape their own learning more effectively.
     

New success for IFP School's "Oil & Gas" MOOC - 2016 edition The 2nd edition of the IFP School's MOOC "Oil & Gas: from exploration to distribution", supported by Total, was enthusiastically welcomed by 21,000 participants from 148 countries: France, Nigeria and Indonesia being the most represented. 24% of those enrolled were awarded a completion certificate (twice the average for MOOCs), and 98% of participants would recommend this MOOC!

A strong international commitment

IFP School has a strong international dimension; around half of its students are foreign nationals, from more than 40 different countries. What’s more, half of its graduate programs are delivered entirely in English.

This multicultural environment appeals to students and prepares them for an international career. It supports the strategy of international companies operating in host countries, determined to significantly increase the percentage of local employees. Finally, it meets the growing needs of state-owned companies in oil-producing countries for qualified specialist personnel.

In 2016, the five most represented foreign countries, with more than seven students for each of them, are:

• Bolivia,
• Morocco,
• Spain,
• China,
• and Brazil.

This global outlook also extends to academic partnerships with prestigious international universities and engineering schools. These partnerships are hinged around joint programs, giving students the opportunity to divide their studies between the two institutions and hence obtain a double degree. Every yearsome 30 or so students graduate from these programs.

IFP School’s current partners are:

• China University of Petroleum in China
• Akron University,
• Texas A&M University, Colorado School of Mines and Oklahoma University in the United States,
• the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Russia,
• the Instituto Technologico of Buenos Aires in Argentina
• and the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia.  
            

Off-site programs are also organized outside France in partnership with IFP Training, a subsidiary of IFPEN. They concern around a sixty graduates every year.

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