PhD tracks
PhD Track at Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Institut Polytechnique de Paris offers a highly selective, integrated five-year PhD program designed for high-potential students aiming for an international career in leading academic institutions or in the private sector.
Inspired by the Anglo-Saxon model, the PhD Track allows selected students to benefit from IP Paris's outstanding academic ecosystem ans to be closely involved in the research activities of its laboratories from the very first year of the Master's program. Each student receives personalized guidance from a faculty member and interacts directly with the Institute's scientific community, located at the heart of a world-renowned innovation cluster.
The first two years, corresponding to the Master's level, are dedicated to acquiring the tools needed to carry out an ambitious research project, under the supervision of an academic advisor.
The following three years are devoted entirely to the research project and lead to the PhD degree from Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Students receive individual mentoring from a recognized researcher in their field. The most outstanding candidates may be awarded excellence scholarships.
Within the Department of Economics and CREST, students may apply for the PhD Track in Economics.
For more information on courses, admission requirements, and tuition fees, please refer to the dedicated webpage.
The PhD Track in Economics
The program relies heavily on advanced quantitative methods, applied to both theoretical and empirical analysis.
During the first year, students take advanced core courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. They also take part in supervised research projects, providing them with their first hands-on research experience.
In the second year, students strengthen their methodological training, specialize in various subfields of economics, and become fully integrated into the like of the research centers:
- they are assigned office space and IT facilities at the Department of Economics and CREST,
- they may collaborate with faculty members as research assistants,
- each student is paired with an individual academic advisor,
- they regularly attend CREST research seminars,
- they carry out research project and write a Master's dissertation under faculty supervision.
At the end of the second year, students who have achieved strong academic results, developed a research proposal, and identified a potentiel PhD supervisor within the Department of Economics and CREST may enter the doctoral phase of the program (three years).
Research fields and possible areas of specialization
- Econometric Theory
- Environmental and Development Economics
- Game and Decision Theory
- Industrial Organization and Digital Economics
- International Economics
- Labor Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Public Economics