Higher education in France is separated into universities and grandes écoles. Grandes écoles are regarded more prestige than universities. Their selection process is very competitive.
Amongst Grandes écoles, École Polytechnique is most prestige among Engineering Schools, while Hautes Études Commerciales is most prestige among Business Schools.
A remarkable trait of higher education in France, in comparison with other countries, is the tiny size and array of establishments, all specialized in a less or more broad spectrum of branches. A middle-sized city in the country, like Nancy and Grenoble, can have several universities, for example, sociological or science studies, and an amount of engineering and some other specialized higher education foundations. In capital and its outskirts, there are 13 universities and none of them is dedicated to one area, and a great amount of smaller institutions that are very specialized.
It is typical for graduate teaching programs to be run in common by a number of institutions, letting the institutions to represent a great diversity of courses.
In engineering schools like École Polytechnique, a big share of the faculty is often made up of non-permanent teachers and professors; in its place, part-time teachers and professors are employed to teach one special point only.
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