Information Sciences

The Master’s program in Information Sciences at CentraleSupélec is a comprehensive and highly innovative curriculum designed to equip students with the fundamental knowledge and practical skills necessary to excel in the rapidly evolving field of information technology and data management. This program emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach, combining theoretical foundations with hands-on experience to prepare graduates for diverse careers in industry, research, and academia. Students will explore core subjects such as computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and software engineering, alongside specialized fields like machine learning, data science, and network systems.

The program benefits from CentraleSupélec’s strong connections with industry partners, enabling students to participate in internships, collaborative projects, and real-world problem-solving. Through this practical engagement, students gain valuable insights into current technological challenges and innovative solutions, fostering their ability to develop scalable and efficient information systems. The curriculum encourages critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability—skills essential for navigating the technological transformations of the modern world.

In addition to technical expertise, the program emphasizes soft skills such as teamwork, communication, and project management, which are crucial for leadership roles in technical environments. Students also have opportunities to undertake research projects and theses under the guidance of renowned faculty members, further deepening their knowledge and research capabilities.

The Master’s in Information Sciences is designed for students with a strong background in mathematics or computer science who aspire to become expert practitioners, researchers, or innovators in fields related to data and information technologies. Graduates will be well-prepared to pursue careers in sectors like information technology, finance, consulting, telecommunications, or to continue their education through doctoral programs. With a curriculum that balances theoretical rigor with practical application, this program at CentraleSupélec offers a pathway to excellence in the rapidly growing domain of information sciences.

All the courses are taught in English, and are based on the Erasmus Mundus IT4BI Master (Information Technologies for Business Intelligence). The cursus offered covers the following Teaching Units (UE):

• 4 UE for scientific and technological courses (5 ECTS per UE) 

  • Semantic Technologies

  • Exploration of data and training

  • Analytic visualization

  • Modeling for decisional aids

• 1 UE for the introduction to innovation and research (5 ECTS)

• 1 UE for French language and European culture (5 ECTS)

• 1 UE for R&D project (Internship) (30 ECTS)

For foreign national applicants (outside of the European Union and European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, Monaco or Andorra):

Consult the consular authorities concurrently to find out the procedures for obtaining your student visa. Depending on which country you are from, some authorities may ask you to use the CampusFrance facility.

The CampusFrance procedure must be followed concurrently with submission of your application to your choice of study program on the Université Paris-Saclay platform: https://apply-tc.ecp.fr/

International mobility grant (IdEx Paris-Saclay)

The IdEx Paris-Saclay project, of which CentraleSupélec is a partner, aims to promote international openness to master’s-level training programs provided by partner institutions, and to facilitate access for high-level international students wishing to develop a research training project up to doctoral level.

As such, for each university academic year, a one-year grant will be granted (for candidates accepted into the 2nd year of a Master’s degree), which can be renewed (for candidates admitted into the 1st year of a Master’s degree subject to obtaining successful results), to international students, to fund their completion of a Master’s degree with CentraleSupélec.

Applicants must first submit an application online (Application section). The person in charge of the training selects, from among the admitted, candidates to whom he will propose to apply for this scholarship. Each selected candidate will then be informed by e-mail so that they can complete their application for the scholarship; He must in particular provide the email address of two referrers who must complete their recommendations online before the deadline specified in website of  University Paris-Saclay.

Ile-de-France Master’s degree grant

International applicants for a Master’s degree may be eligible for financial support from the Ile-de-France Regional Council.

This support is for foreign national students arriving for the first time, aged 30 and under in the year of selection, and wishing to complete a Master’s degree in whichever field of studies they have chosen.

All nationalities are eligible. However, priority will be given to candidates from priority decentralized cooperation areas of the region, or developing countries, particularly in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East or new European Union member states.

Candidates must first file an application online, specifying in the grant section that they would like to apply for the Ile-de-France grant.

After first submitting the online application for their chosen Master’s degree program and downloading the grant request form from the Ile-de-France website, international candidates must then return this with all necessary documents – before March 1 - to:

Programme Master
CentraleSupélec - Direction des Études
Bâtiment Olivier - Bureau N 104
Grande Voie des Vignes
92295 Châtenay-Malabry cedex

The Studies Board can then establish the list of eligible candidates before their grant file is sent within the decision deadline imposed by the Ile-de-France Regional Council.

Grants offered on the CampusFrance website

The CampusFrance “Campus Grant” directory provides you with quick access to information about financial support, enables you to search according to your profile and describes various government institution, local authority, company, foundation and higher education institution programs.

Career opportunities

Doctorate or R&D teams, either in major groups or in innovative SMEs. From the industrial point of view, the ever-increasing quantity of data, the rapid and complex changes in the economy and the emerging tendency to incorporate unstructured data in analytical processes bring new challenges to the field of decisional computing. Academically, new research opportunities are created by the recent development in users’ requirements and concern the management of structured data and unstructured content (analysis of documents, personalization and recommendation, graph databases, composition of knowledge bases, mapping company data, etc.).