The ISA Group is a French Engineering Institute in Life Sciences and Management, located in Lille, North of France.

It counts 950 full-time students and welcomes around 90 international students every year.

The ISA Group is member of the Lille Catholic University, the France’s largest private university with 18 500 full-time students and more than 1600 international students every year.

Group ISA offers Masters and Engineering programmes. All our programmes combine innovative pedagogy and in depth-scientific expertise developped in our research labs in different fields of activities:

• Environmental sciences, soil pollution, landscape management, waste and water treatment...

• Agribusiness, economics, marketing and management in agro industry

• Sustainable food management, food processing, quality and safety, R&D, sensory analysis, fermentation...

• Agriculture, agri-food chain and rural development...

Teaching language is English or French, depending on the programme. 

ISA offers a high level academic training with practical experience (case studies, long professional immersions, group projects…) and individual tutoring.

All our ISA Engineering or Master’s degrees are fully accredited by the French, European and international standards and are giving access to PhD.

For more information, please visit our website (http://www.isa-lille.com)

Lille is located in the heart of a Euroregion (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, UK, the Netherlands, Germany). Often called the “Crossroad of Europe", Lille is a privileged centre for exchanges at the very heart of Europe: 6 European capitals are within a radius of 250 kilometres (Paris, Brussels and London among others).

The development of transport facilities such as the Channel Tunnel, the European High Speed Train network and the motorway network, enhances Lille's strategic position both in France and in Europe: London is only 1h 40 minutes away, Paris 1h away, Amsterdam 2h and Brussels 38 minutes away!

The city itself has about 220,000 inhabitants. Lille is the tenth city in France and the fourth Metropolis. Regional capital, classified city of Art, cultural capital of Europe in 2004, Lille asserts itself as excellent cultural destination.

It is also famous for its unique and beautiful architecture, legacy from a richly influenced part. In 2004, Lille has even been elected “Cultural Capital of Europe".

All our programmes combine both theoretical teaching (strong scientific courses) and practical works. 

The teaching methods are based on active learning, which is particularly adapted to the reality of the professional life. Therefore, it allows the graduates to enter the job market quickly and efficiently.

- Internships: these individual professional experiences have to be carried out at the Master's level, in the first year (2 to 3 months) and in the second year (6 to 9 months), either in a lab or a company, in France or abroad. Each student has to analyse technical and management working problems and to propose relevant improvement actions. Internships are a step by step process which aims at giving responsibilities to the students.

During the industrial projects and internships, the students are supervised and guided both by a referent professor from the university and an industrial guide. The students will have to write a final report and to defend their work in the presence of the companies’ representatives.

- Industrial projects: These practical cases are provided by the university in cooperation with its industrial network. The students have to deal with specific issues for an industrial partner

The active learning is notably based on practical works in labs, case studies, industrial projects, internship in companies…

In every ISA programmes (Bachelors, Masters, Engineering programmes…), the professional immersions (internships and industrial projetcs) are compulsory and fully part of the curriculum.

In addition to this, our programmes also include project management and intercultural activities to help the students developping their abilities to work in team and to reinforce transverse skills.

Industrial partnerships and interactions:

• excellent network of corporate tie-ups
• business-oriented training suiting the sector’s needs on both the French and international markets 
• 8 to 11 months of professional immersions in companies, in France or abroad for every MSc student
• Industry associated faculty
• Industrial visits
• Career Fairs on campus to create internships and job opportunities

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

MARKS AND CREDITS:

    YOU CAN NOT CLAIM CREDIT FOR A COURSE IF:
   1. Your marks are not equal or superior to 12/20
   2. You have not fulfilled all exam requirements related to the module

TESTS AND EXAMS:

    WRITTEN EXAMS:
    Extra time and dictionary allowed for international students

ISA ENGINEERING DEGREE « Diplôme d’Ingénieur » :

You want to study at ISA for two years (postgraduate diploma) to obtain the Master’s Degree in Agriculture, “Diplôme d’Ingénieur de l’ISA”; please note the pre-requisites :
   - Bachelor degree in biology, agriculture, agronomy or other scientific disciplines.
   - Satisfactory level of French, allowing you to follow lectures and to study in French higher education (a DELF or DALF test is required)

Foreign students are required to have a satisfactory level of French, allowing them to follow lectures and to study in French higher education.

Therefore a copy of a DELF or DALF exam, or any test of French (TCF, other…) has to be sent together with the application form.
If the student does not have such a document, a letter of reference from a French teacher or from the Head of the Foreign Languages Department, should be sent (see registration form).

In addition to this, a letter of application, written in French by the student, also has to be added to the application form.

All international students have to follow the French classes organized at ISA (2 hrs/week). These classes are free of charge.

The students will get ECTS credits for these classes.

Please refer to the n+i sessions deadlines.

n+i students can apply to Eiffel scholarships and to French embassy scholarships. These scholarships offer around 615€ per month during the duration of the studies in France.

Living on a campus in the Heart of the City

The Campus is located in the heart of the city made up of cosmopolitan markets, stylish shops and beautiful gardens. It is surrounded by parks and nice avenues.

The campus has a sport centres, 4 restaurants, 1 health centre and gathers around 300 student associations (music, sport, culture, theatre, international clubs...). All the students have access to all these campus facilities and student activities. Every Thursday afternoon, for example, is devoted to sport; the students do not have class, so that they can practice their favourite sport in the sport complex.

The campus has 12 student residences. Some are located on the campus itself and the others are located at max. 15 minutes away by feet or by bus/subway. Every 15 minutes, city shuttles are stopping just in front of the university's main entrance and it is therefore very convenient for the students to travel from the campus to the residences.

Rooms are around 8-12 m² and are furnished with a bed, wardrobe, desk and chair and a sink. Showers and toilets are shared with the students living on the same floor.

Breakfast is served every weekday from 7 to 9 am and is included in the rent.

Facilities:

- kitchen

- TV room

- laundry room

- computer room

- bike storage

- possibility to rent bed linen

For more information, please visit the AEU website (http://www.aeu.asso.fr/residence_listing_084.htm)

Typical monthly budget:

In 2008-2009, ISA Group has welcomed around 100 international students, from 16 different courntires (Brazil, Romania, India, China, Mexico, Hungary, Colombia, Argentina...)

Since ISA joined the n+i network, the institute has welcomed 23 n+i students, from many different countries such as China, Taiwan, Thailand, Colombia or Hungary. 19 of them have graduated from ISA.

ISA is also active in participating in the recruiting and promotion missions abroad.

The network linking ISA to such partner universities is global.

From year to year, such agreements are resulting in an ever increasing number of stays abroad, both for French students and ISA teacher-researchers.

These partnerships also allows foreign stduents the opportunity to come and study at ISA for a short academic exchange or for a complete MSc programme. time.

In cooperation with some strategic partners, ISA has also developped international MSc programmes such as double-degree or international twinning programmes, allowing French and foreign students to pursue an international curriculum and acquire international competencies.