Master's degrees

Ecole Centrale de Lyon offers 16 Master's degrees in science, technology and health, in one or more courses. Some of these Masters are offered on the Ecole Centrale de Lyon's Ecully campus or on the Saint Étienne campus, via its internal school ENISE. Seven masters programmes offer international courses, taught entirely in English (see the international masters section), with recruitment in M1 and M2.

Applications for the year 2023-2024

Training cost Centrale Lyon applies differentiated national rights

The rates and additional costs can be viewed here https://www.ec-lyon.fr/formation/master/admission-inscription-master

How to apply

• Candidate residing outside the Economic and European Area: the procedure only goes through Etudes en France.
• Candidate residing in the Economic and European Area: application from March 22 to April 18, 2023 via the downloadable files below

Sciences, technology, health Masters 

Acoustics

• 1^st and 2^d year of Master, taught in English
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: M. Jacob

Aeronautics and space

• 1^st and 2^d year of Master, taught in English
• 2 tracks: Aeronautical and spacecraft propulsion; Aerostructures.
• Course location: Ecully
• Contact: S. Aubert

Chemistry and materials science

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• Track: Innovative materials for health, transport and energy.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: S. Benayoun
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Econometrics, statistics

• 2^d year of Master, taught in French
• Track: Risk management in insurance and finance (GRAF).
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: C. Blanchet

Electronics, electrical energy, automation

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• 3 tracks: Automated system engineering; Electrical engineering; Electronics and embedded systems.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: A. Korniienko
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Civil engineering

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• 2 tracks: Advanced modelling and experimentation in civil engineering (MEAGC); Materials and Structures for Sustainable Construction (MSDC).
• Course location: Ecully or Saint-Etienne
• Contacts: A. Si-Larbi (Saint-Etienne) and F. Froiio (Ecully)
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Industrial engineering

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• 2 tracks: Advanced methods in industrial engineering for the industry of the future (MAGIF); Data and artificial intelligence in industrial engineering (DIAGI).
• Course location: Ecully or Saint-Etienne (MAGIF) and Ecully (DIAGI).
• Contacts: S. Bayard (Saint-Etienne) and L. Nechak (Ecully)
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Computer science

• 2^d year of Master only
• 4 tracks taught in French: Data science; Artificial intelligence; Image and 3D Technology; Information technology and the internet.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: A. Saidi
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Healthcare engineering

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• 2 tracks: Medical imaging, signals and systems (MISS); Health product design and optimisation (COPS).
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: E. Laurenceau

Applied mathematics, statistics

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French
• Track: Maths in action.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: M. Marion

Mechanical engineering

• 5 tracks taught in French, 2^d year of Master only:
  • Fluid mechanics and energetics (MFE) : Saint-Etienne
  • Biomechanics (BM) : Ecully and Saint-Etienne 
  • System and structure dynamics (D2S) : Ecully
  • Numerical Solid Mechanics (MNS) : Saint-Etienne
  • Surfaces, Interfaces and Structures Engineering (ISIS) : Ecully and Saint-Etienne 
• 1 track taught in English, 1^st and 2^d year of Master: Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Technologie (SMAT).
• Contacts: S. Besset (Ecully) and H. Hamdi (Saint-Etienne)
• Master co-accredited with UCBL
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology

• 1^st and 2^d year of Master, taught in English
• Track: Nanoscale engineering.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: B. Vilquin

Risks and environment

• Track taught in French and English, 2^d year of Master only: Environmental risk governance (RISE).
• Track taught in English, 1^st and 2^d year of Master: Water and Wind engineering.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: P. Salizzoni
• Application: download the file by clicking here.

Public health

• 2^d year of Master only, taught in French and English
• Track: Biostatistics, biomathematics, bioinformatics and health (B3S).
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: C. Helbert

Materials Science and Engineering

• 1^st year of Master et 2^d year of Master, taught in English
• Track: Biomimicry and Surface Engineering (BIOSURF)
• Course location: Ecully and occasionally Saint-Etienne
• Contact: S. Valette

Marine, atmosphere and climate science

• 1^st and 2^d year of Master, taught in English
• 3 tracks: Atmospheric Sciences; Ocean Sciences; Climate Sciences.
• Course location: Ecully and Lyon
• Contact: R. Perkins

Law, economics, management Masters 

Risks and environment
Shared with Science, technology, health (see above Master RISE above).

Humanities and Social Sciences Masters 

• Philosophy (master's degree with Lyon 3)
• M2 taught in French
• 2 courses: Ethics, ecology, environment; Logic, history and philosophy of science and technology.
• Location of courses: Lyon
• Contact: R. Sauzet

For information on how to apply for one of these Masters programmes, please see the section "Admission and enrolment".