International office | |
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Name of School | IMT Mines Alès |
Website | |
Postal address | IMT Mines Alès International Office - ERASMUS+ 6, avenue de Clavières 30319 ALES Cedex |
International relations Director | Eric VIVIEN |
Institutional Coordinator ERASMUS+ Incoming and Outgoing
ERASMUS+ Code F ALES02 | Françoise ANDRE +33466782077 |
Incoming and Outgoing for Non ERASMUS+ students Students | Sylvie LARGUIER |
Departments | |
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Courses Available | • Civil Engineering and sustainable building (French Only) • Material Engineering (French Only) • Energy Environment and Risk (French and English) • Mineral resources and underground works (French Only) • Artificial Intelligence and software engineering (French and English) • Mechatronics (French and English) |
Master of Sciences (taught totally in English) | Disaster Management and Environmental Impact http://master-disaster-management.com Accessible, without registration fees, to students on exchange |
Semester Dates | |
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First semester | Beginning of September – End of December (Aug 30th – Dec 16th 2022) |
Second semester | Beginning of January – Beginning of May (Jan 3rd –May 2023) |
Application Deadlines | |
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First semester | 31st of May each year |
Second semester | 30th of November each year |
Minimum length of stay | 1 semester for students wishing to enrol in lessons ; varies for other academic activities. |
Application Procedure | Please send an email with the information below to francoise.andre@mines-ales.fr for Erasmus + area or sylvie.larguier@mines-ales.fr For Outside Erasmus+ area
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General Information for Incoming Students | |
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Course Language | French and English |
Language Requirements | French B1/B2 (Common European Framework for Languages) English B1/B2 No level certificate is required |
French Lessons | French language lessons run between September and April |
Exam Details | Exams vary greatly from course to course. Students may be asked to complete written exams, submit reports, sit oral exams, or a combination of these. Exams take place at the end of each module. As such there are no specific exam periods. |
Minimum Pass Mark for each module | A= Excellent – B= Very Good – C= Good – D= Satisfactory – E= Sufficient - F= Fail. ‘F’ in any module, means student cannot pass that module. |
Exam re-sits | Students can re-sit exams that they have failed. Arrangements for re-sits vary from course to course. |
Number of credits per semester | 30 ECTS credits |
Accommodation | Maison des Elèves – about 300-400 € per month. For more details, visit http://www.mines-ales.fr/pages/la-maison-des-élèves-ales |
Necessary insurance | Health Insurance (Sécurité sociale) This insurance reimburse students for a large part (60%-70%) of any medical costs. Students from the European Economic Area should make sure they have a European Health Insurance Card before travelling abroad. Non-EEA students need to pay different amounts depending on their age Public Liability Insurance This is needed in case the student causes an accident that, for example, injures somebody. It costs around 18 EUR per year. Complementary health insurance Students are strongly advised to take out extra health insurance in order to complement the Sécurité Sociale (up to almost 100% of medical costs). Prices vary, but expect to pay around 300 EUR. |
FAQs
The only scholarship offered by the Govt is the Charpak Scholarship which amounts to around 700 Euros per month. It refunds your travel and also sponsors your Visa. There is no other scholarship offered, neither by IMT nor by the French Govt. However, a couple of years back there was an extra option alongside Charpak where only VISA and some other things were sponsored.
You need to pay for accommodation and food which amounts to around 300 Euros per month.
Courses were mainly in French, but some were also entirely taught in English. Generally only undergraduate-level courses tend to be in French.
Yes, you can. There is a lot of flexibility in that sense. They also get passed for credits, so should not be a problem.
The number of credits you get depends on your department at IIT. They have few branches and relatively limited courses for each. Courses were available in CS, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil Engineering. Humanities courses are generally only available for first-year students, so you may not be able to do these. It’s generally sensible to do DEs and OEs, as these are easier to get passed. A course like Business Management can easily get passed as an OE. EE, MnC, Mech departments, for instance, would not pass core courses you did there. Do update yourself on the curriculum and courses before going as these can change.
They have multiple semesters of 5 weeks each: 4 weeks of teaching and 1 week of examination. You can generally only do a single course from a field in a semester. There is also no audit-withdrawal. First two months involve some compulsory courses but later you have the flexibility to choose. It’s easy to get the courses of your choice.
- Do make sure you plan your curriculum before going there. If you don’t, you can generally suffer in terms of credits. You rarely get as many as you apply for eg: someone applied for 20 and secured 14.5.
- Learn a little French beforehand in India. Would be extremely helpful.
- They recently started the exchange programme semester where most courses will be taught in English. Visit websites of IMTs and check details out.
*The answers are based on the experience of students who visited the university in past and are subject to change in future.