3rd YEAR: A PRE-SPECIALISATION AND A CAREER-FOCUS

The 3rd year provides an introduction to a specialisation, in line with each student’s career plan.

In 3rd year, students choose both a career focus, corresponding to the various roles available to an engineer in industry (FM) (e.g. research & development; product design; production and logistics; consulting; entrepreneurship, etc.), and a specialist course from within one of 5 fields:

• mechanics, marine engineering and acoustics
• chemical engineering
• physics : photonics, image and signal processing, microelectronics
• systems engineering
• mathematics and computer science

Industrial placement: final year project
20 - 24 weeks. Scientific or engineering project.

LANGUageS	SPECIALIST COURSES	CAREER FOCUS (FM)	SPORT	INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT
2 compulsory languages	one to be chosen among 13 options	one of 5		Final year project 20 to 24 weeks
60 h	400 h	110 h	90 h

Other choices for the 3rd year

• Ecoles Centrales Group
  

Each student of Ecole Centrale Marseille can, upon request and after consideration of his/her academic record, be authorized to enroll in a third year in other partner schools in France:

- Ecole Centrale Lille,
- Ecole Centrale Lyon,
- Ecole Centrale Nantes.
- Ecole Centrale Paris

- Other schools:an agreement must be signed.

• A Master's Degree

In each specialist course, students may also work towards a Master's Degree leading to a Doctorate if they wish to do so. The new organization of studies will facilitate the enrolment of international students who wish to earn a Master of Science Degree at Ecole Centrale Marseille, thus complementing the current Double-Degree Program.

• Double diploma

The originality and strength of the Ecole Centrale Marseille resides in the fact that all Centrale students from the school have the opportunity of simultaneously obtaining, with their degree, a foreign degree  such as:
- An engineering degree from a European technical university belonging to the T.I.M.E. network,
- An engineering degree from a non European technical university belonging to the T.I.M.E. network,
- A Master's Degree from an American, British or Japanese university belonging to the "Centrale Master's Degree" network.
      Important: With this network, Students have to pay university fees at their chosen foreign university.

The complementarity of two excellent study courses, and the qualities that the students develop within the framework of this in-depth intercultural experience, lead to a new type of engineer, well prepared to meet the international challenges posed by modern companies.

• A sabbatical year

on internships or at an other university before starting the third year.