Start of the 2025 academic year: ESTACA confirms its appeal

02 September 2025 School

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With more than 740 new students admitted, the School has exceeded its targets, confirming its attractiveness on the Parcoursup and among CPGE and other university students. At the start of the new academic year, the school had almost 2850 students across all its programs.

The school is also announcing the completion of its training projects, with the opening of a new specialization in railway engineering in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the launch of an apprenticeship course in aeronautics and space in Laval. In other news, at the start of the 2025 academic year, the École will be welcoming students to its own establishment in Bordeaux, not far from the St Jean train station.

"The opening of our new campus in Bordeaux and the launch of new training programs in Laval and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines illustrate ESTACA's proactive development strategy within dynamic regional ecosystems. ESTACA within dynamic regional ecosystems, in phase with our partners' engineering needs and meeting the aspirations of students from all over France and abroad. Each ESTACA campus is designed as a place to live, learn and innovate, connected to the challenges of its region.

Denis Bertrand, Managing Director of ESTACA

Saint Quentin en Yvelines campus: a new railway major focused on infrastructure

As part of the "Railway System Engineering" specialization, which concludes the 4 years of training in ESTACA's railway engineering program, the student takes a more in-depth look at one of the following majors: "Railway Design & Systems", "Operations & Maintenance" or "Infrastructure Projects & Works": "Railway Design & Systems", "Operations & Maintenance" or "Infrastructure Projects & Works".

The new "Projects & Infrastructure Works" major, due to open in October 2025, aims to better prepare students for the engineering professions in design offices specializing in railways, as well as for more operational jobs in construction companies.The new "Projects & Infrastructure Works" major, which opens in October 2025, is designed to better prepare students for engineering jobs in design offices specializing in railways, as well as for more operational jobs in construction companies. It provides students with general skills in the context of managing major rail projects, their strategic stakes, their safety fundamentals, and the importance of a technical vision of subsystems and their interfaces on a complex worksite. This training opens the door to professions such as project management, prime contracting, work package management...