LIFAT Master programs

The Centre-Val de Loire National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) is a Public Scientific, Cultural and Professional Institution (EPSCP) established by the French Decree No.2013-521 of 19 June 2013 published in the French Official Gazette of 21 June 2013. The Centre-Val de Loire INSA is a public engineering school of the INSA Group. Located on the Blois and Bourges campuses in the Centre region, the Centre-Val de Loire INSA trains multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial landscape architects and engineers over five years, equipping them with an inclusive, open mind and a high level of scientific and humanistic knowledge.

The Master Degree Programme in Big Data Management and Analytics (BDMA) is a unique programme that fully covers all of the data management and analytics aspects of Big Data (BD), built on top of Business Intelligence (BI) foundations, and complemented with horizontal skills. Sharing contents with an Erasmus Mundus Master Programme, BDMA adheres to international studies, being structured to cover all the skills BI and BD specialists require.

Polytech Tours, is the graduate school of engineering of the University of Tours, it is also a member of the Polytech network. The Polytech network is a network of 14 schools of engineering of French universities that graduate each year more than 3,000 engineers. This makes the Polytech network the biggest engineering graduates schools network in France.Polytech Tours welcomes students after the end of their secondary education in the pre-engineering degree preparatory course in partnership with the faculty of science and technology. After two years, students may choose to continue their studies in one of the 14 graduate schools of the Polytech network in the specialty of their choice according to their academic results.These engineering specialties are all based on the research activity of the research units hosted by Polytech Tours. The 80 professors and assistant-professors are also heavily invested in technology transfer platforms with regional, national and international, industry. Finally, the teachers and researchers actively participate in 3 clusters bringing together research organizations, industry and policy makers.