International relations
Today, most companies operate in a market that goes beyond the borders of France, into European Union markets of course, but more often global markets. Thus, employers' requirements for international experience of young graduates (or for them to have operated in a multicultural environment) are increasing. Also, the French Commission accrediting engineering titles has progressively increased its expectations in this matter, which has been translated at UTC by a modification of the regulation of the engineering studies making an international mobility of the future graduates compulsory.
Moreover, the recruitment of PhD students, post-doctoral students and lecturer-cum-research scientists is subject to increasingly strong international competition. This competition is also emerging at the European level for recruitment to courses leading to the Bac+5, engineering and Master's degrees.
Supported by its membership in the Sorbonne University alliance and ranked since 2018 in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2018, notably in the "International Outlook" category, UTC recognizes more than ever the imperious necessity to carry out its main mission at the international level, and to have a recognition and a visibility there.
To do so, UTC must promote the quality of its training, carry out research at the highest level and in connection with the public and private economic sectors so that from science it becomes technology-intensive. A particular attention objective is to guarantee quality opportunities for the incoming and outgoing mobility of students.
In the mid-term prospect, the focus is on the following three areas:
• To succeed in the systematic integration of international mobility in the engineering course of UTC students and to introduce new forms of international collaboration;
• To introduce a typology for the international partnerships of UTC;
• To affirm the commitment of UTC in the framework of the French-speaking world.