ESB is a unique French Enginnering school dedicated to wood and bio based materials.It was created By French minsitry of Agriculture in 1934 in Paris. The main idea was at that time to valorise by better knowledge and innovation, wood ressources. Due to a lack of space related to its development, ESB decided to move to Nantes, one of the nicest place to live in France, because of its close location to the atlantic ocean and not so far from Paris (2 hours) in a quite and peaceful middle -size city. The ESB campus is nicely located in a green and quiet place gathered with other French Grandes écoles (mainly engineering schools), wity direct bus lines to center city of Nantes.
With 60 full time employees, and one hundred of part time experts, ESB is a human sized Higher Education and Research Insitution, supported by the French Minsitry of Agriculture and run as non profit association made of representatives form the state and regional authorities and also from the National Wood different sectors and industries.
Nantes has been ranked best european to live thanks to its great location and management : lots of parks, rivers amongst whih the most famous one : the Loire River and its castles! Nantes has an international airport with hundreds of connection throughout the world.
ESB is unique by the expertise it shares linked with wood and biobased materials sciences, circular economy in order to change the world to a more durable one.
But ESB is also unique thanks to its learning by doint approach in close links with companies – 12000 m² of facilties : workshops, labs, prototype rooms, Immersive and design rooms.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0
– TOEFL iBT: 90
– Duolingo English Test: Not Accepted
– TOEIC: 785
02 September 2024 – 02 February 2025
Business
- Business and Management (International Trade)
Applicants 2023
Applicants : 5 students
GPA : 3.47-3.87
TOEFL iBT Score : –
IELTS Score : –
Duolingo English Test Score : 90-120
TOEIC Score : 750-750
Awardees 2023
Awardees : 4 students
GPA : 3.47-3.85
TOEFL iBT Score : –
IELTS Score : –
Duolingo English Test Score : 105-120
TOEIC Score : 750-750