PhD Programs

In PhD research, the School’s policy is to foster access to excellence through Doctoral Schools (ED) affiliated with the laboratories.

In this context, an École nationale des ponts et chaussées PhD candidate (ENPC candidate) is registered with one of the four doctoral schools.

Registration

• A simple, standardised process, 100% paperless via the ADUM platform
• Find out more on the Institut Polytechnique de Paris website

Registration and re-registration for the 2026-2027 academic year

The administrative period for PhD students will run from 6 July to 31 October 2026, regardless of their host institution.

• PhD students affiliated with CEREA, CIRED, LEESU, LHSV, LIGM and NAVIER: procedure introduced by ED IP Paris 626
• PhD students affiliated with CERMICS: procedure introduced by ED MH 574
• PhD students affiliated with LATTS and LVMT: procedure introduced by ED VTT 528 
• PhD students affiliated with PjSE: specific ‘Ponts’ procedure (information available in your ADUM personal account; click on ‘I wish to apply for re-enrolment in year X’ and check the documents required to update your application).

Thesis defences before 31 December 2026

• Initiating the procedure via the Adum personal portal
• No need for administrative re-enrolment
• No tuition fees to pay
• No CVEC fee to pay
• No additional CSI

Doctoral Schools

• The “City, Transportation, Territories” (VTT) Doctoral School  is a significant component of the  Université Paris-Est Community’s “City, Engineering, Environment” unit and draws on this scientific dynamic to offer PhD candidates thesis topics that are both scientifically innovative and at the interface with the professional world. This Doctoral School is unusual in its positioning, since it is the only one that explicitly makes the theme of the city, transportation and territory its central concern. It is the doctoral school to which the LATTS & LVMT are attached.
• The Hadamard doctoral school of Mathematics (MH) brings together all doctoral training in mathematics within the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and the Université Paris-Saclay, ranging from the most fundamental to the most applied areas of mathematics, including interdisciplinary mathematics (particularly with economics, computer science, mechanics, physics, engineering sciences and life sciences). It is the host doctoral school for CERMICS.
• The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) doctoral school brings together 6 Grandes Écoles around a shared ambition: to create a world-class institute of science and technology. It offers a rich and multidisciplinary doctoral programme, ranging from fundamental to applied research across nine research fields. It is the affiliated doctoral school for the CEREA, CIRED, LEESU, LHSV, LIGM and Navier laboratories.
• The Panthéon-Sorbonne Doctoral School of Economics (ED 465) places priority on mastering economic methodology and tools, and on this basis, trains specialists across a broad spectrum of fields covering both macroeconomics and microeconomics. It  is the affiliated doctoral school for the PJSE laboratory.