L’Usine Nouvelle has released its 2026 ranking of engineering schools, which evaluates 121 institutions—both public and private—that admit students who have completed high school or preparatory classes.
UniLaSalle stands out for its remarkable improvement, climbing to 36th place, up from 87th out of 126 schools in the previous edition.
Given its methodology, this overall ranking is not a simple linear hierarchy but rather a multidimensional balance based on four criteria: career placement, research, international focus, and ties to industry. Some schools excel in one criterion and are weaker in others. Thus, the schools’ profiles (research vs. career placement vs. international focus vs. industry ties) are just as important as their raw ranking.
A leading institution in its areas of expertise
Beyond the overall rankings, UniLaSalle reaffirms its position as a leader in its areas of specialization.
The school ranks as follows:
- Ranked 3rd among schools for agricultural engineering and agri-food engineering, behind AgroParisTech and ENSAIA.
- Ranked 2nd among schools for environmental engineering, just behind Grenoble INP – Ense3.
Close ties to the professional world
These excellent results are largely due to UniLaSalle’s performance on criteria directly related to graduate employability.
In the “Proximity to Businesses” category, the school ranks 6th nationally and is ranked 1st among schools specializing in agronomy and agri-food, as well as 1st among schools specializing in the environment. This result demonstrates UniLaSalle’s ability to design degree programs that are closely aligned with the realities of the professional world, based on diverse, career-oriented tracks that maintain constant ties with economic stakeholders.
UniLaSalle also stands out for the excellent career prospects of its graduates. The school ranks 29th nationally, while maintaining its No. 1 ranking among engineering schools specializing in agronomy and agri-food and its No. 1 ranking among engineering schools specializing in environmental engineering. These results confirm the school’s ability to train engineers who are quickly ready for the workforce, in line with the expectations of the job market.
In summary
UniLaSalle is a leading post-baccalaureate engineering school, recognized for its excellence in career placement, its close ties with businesses, and its socioeconomic impact in the fields of life sciences, the environment, and transitions.
UniLaSalle in previous rankings by *L'Usine nouvelle*
2024 Rankings: Spotlight on Gender Equality and Entrepreneurship
As with the 2023 ranking, *L’Usine Nouvelle* uses public data from the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI) and the Conférence des Directeurs des Ecoles françaises d’ingénieurs (CDEFI), which will be analyzed according to four main categories: international outreach, ties to industry, career placement, and research.
Compared to last year, the methodology has changed little from previous years.
Graduates Who Start Businesses
Among the new features of the 2024 rankings, the percentage of graduates who have started businesses over the past three years replaces the number of entrepreneurs, which mitigates the effect of the school’s size. Based on this criterion, UniLaSalle ranks well above engineering schools in the same fields.
This result underscores UniLaSalle’s status as a leader in entrepreneurship and its excellent relationships with businesses, as evidenced by its performance in rankings over the past several years (for example, L'Usine Nouvelle 2023 Rankings and L’Etudiant 2023 Rankings: UniLaSalle Joins Group A of Engineering Schools).
Gender Equality Among Graduates
The second change is the inclusion of the percentage of women among graduates instead of the percentage of women in the school’s total student body. With a ratio close to parity (50.83%), UniLaSalle ranks among the top performers. Considered by *L’Usine Nouvelle* as a criterion for “proximity to businesses,” we believe this indicator would be better suited to a category related to social responsibility.
Unlike the *L’Etudiant* ranking, the *Usine Nouvelle* ranking has not yet incorporated sustainable development indicators into its assessment, even as younger generations are calling for exemplary behavior from institutions of higher education.
It should be noted that in the “Environment” category, UniLaSalle ranks 4the.
Overall, UniLaSalle ranks 96th in this ranking.
2023 Rankings: UniLaSalle Stands Out in Agronomy, Environment, and Geosciences
In the 2023 Usine Nouvelle rankings, UniLaSalle ranks 67th out of 131 ranked schools (and 60 unranked schools) and achieves strong results across its various academic programs.
- In the “Agronomy and Agri-Food” specialization, UniLaSalle ranks 3rd out of 13 schools listed. This ranking is available here: 2023 Ranking of Engineering Schools Specializing in Agronomy and Agri-Food - Usine Nouvelle
- In the “Environment” specialization, UniLaSalle ranks 2nd out of 5. Ranking available: 2023 Ranking of Engineering Schools Specializing in Environment - Usine Nouvelle
- In the “Geosciences and Geotechnical Engineering” specialization, UniLaSalle ranks 2nd out of 5: ENSG Geology (59th), UniLaSalle (64th), Polytech Sorbonne (75th), Polytech Grenoble (76th), and Polytech Orléans (107th).
This ranking highlights the quality of UniLaSalle’s ties with the business community (14th out of 131), with a large number of engineers going on to start their own businesses and strong involvement from business leaders who engage with students throughout their studies. At the same time, this ranking highlights the quality of graduates’ transition into the workforce, which is particularly strong, with 89.32% of them finding a job within two months.
L’Usine Nouvelle uses public data from the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieurs (©CTI – Year 2022) and the Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d’ingénieurs (©CDEFI – Year 2022) to analyze the various schools based on 15 criteria divided into 4 main categories: Student Employment, Industry Connections, Research, and International Engagement.
Note: The major offered at the UniLaSalle Amiens campus has not yet been identified in the “Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications” category.
2022 Rankings: UniLaSalle Tops the List in Two Specialized Fields
In the 2022 edition of the L'Usine nouvelle rankings, UniLaSalle is the top engineering school in the “Environment” and “Agriculture—Agri-Food” categories, and ranks ahead of other schools in Geosciences in the overall rankings.
The 2022 Usine Nouvelle engineering school rankings, which were just released, reveal excellent results for UniLaSalle, which, for the first time, tops the rankings in both specialty areas in which it is listed:
For schools in geosciences and geotechnical engineering (which are not included in a specific category), UniLaSalle ranks 1st among the 5 schools featured in the overall ranking: UniLaSalle (54th), Polytech Grenoble (77th), Polytech Orléans (79th), Polytech Sorbonne (93rd), and ENSG Nancy (106th).
Overall, the 2022 Usine Nouvelle ranking uses 15 indicators divided into four criteria: Career Placement, International Focus, Research, and Industry Connections. This ranking is primarily intended for industry professionals; as such, it emphasizes what happens within the school and upon graduation rather than earlier stages.
This year, 134 schools are ranked, based solely on schools with more than 80 enrolled students and excluding institutions with highly specialized curricula (such as military schools, for example, which are too far removed from the criteria used) or institutions that chose not to participate. This ranking uses public data provided by the Commission des titres d’ingénieur (©CTI – 2021) and the Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d’ingénieurs (©CDEFI – 2021). These results are consistent with the latest engineering school ranking by L’Etudiant published in January 2022.
* The electrical and electronic engineering, digital technology, and information systems programs offered at UniLaSalle-Amiens (formerly ESIEE-Amiens) are not included this year due to the recent merger of the two schools. To learn more about these programs, click here.