Your X2024 Class

Your class of X2024 includes 431 French cadets and up to 140 international students. 

The École Polytechnique, under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, is a military school. Among its students, only Polytechnique students of French nationality have military status and are officer cadets.

International students, who represent around 20% of the graduating class, do not have military status. They do, however, sign a letter of commitment specifying the conditions under which they wear the "Grand Uniforme" at military ceremonies and events.

There are two trackss to the polytechnic engineering cycle:

The CPGE track via :

- The Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles competitive entrance exam, which enables 399 French students and 45 international students to enter the curriculum.

The University track, with several channels :

- The French University competitive entrance exam  (FUF) is open to students of French nationality from French or foreign scientific university courses, and to international students enrolled in French universities.

- The international university competitive entrance exam (FUI) for non-French-speaking or French-speaking foreign students. 

- The competitve entrance exam for French-speaking foreign students coming from preparatory courses for scientific training abroad. In this competition, students from the École d'ingénieurs Paris SJTU (SJTU Paris Elite Insitute of Technology - SPEIT) will be welcomed on a double degree basis from the end of February.