Ecole Polytechnique | France
Located just 20 minutes from Paris the École Polytechnique, is the most prestigious engineering Grande Ecole in France. The university is supported by the state and has been operating since it was founded in 1794. The École educates the nation's scientific, industrial and economic elite. Over the last two centuries, incredible scientists, many whose names are connected to fundamental laws and concepts, have walked the École Polytechnique's halls as professors or students.