Career opportunities

Upon completing the 3-year Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’Études Supérieures (CPES), students validate 180 ECTS credits and receive an institutional degree jointly awarded by Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and HEC Paris, conferring the bachelor’s degree grade (order of 6 August 2026 setting the list of public institution degrees conferring bachelor’s or master’s degree status, which replaces Decree no. 2023-937 of 10 October 2023, now repealed). This grade is recognized for entry into master’s programmes and for international mobility.

From the second year of the bachelor onwards, master’s presentations are organised by the partner institutions to support students in their further studies at master’s level.

Graduates may continue their higher education in university master’s programmes (in particular those of Paris-Saclay) or in grandes écoles programmes, especially those offered by the partner institutions with specific pathways adapted to CPES profiles. They may also pursue master’s programmes at foreign universities applying data science across a wide range of fields, or enter grandes écoles (engineering schools, écoles normales supérieures) through the university pathway, according to each institution’s own admission process.

Outcomes for CPES Paris-Saclay graduates

The first cohort (CPES26) has 33 graduates. Their further studies span universities, engineering and business grandes écoles, research institutes and selective master’s programmes, in France and abroad. Some of them describe what the programme gave them.