The culture of innovation and training designed to serve the development of companies: an internationally active school whose research work is industrially focused, Mines Saint-Étienne is the only Engineering School in the Auvergne Rhone-Alps Region under administration by the Ministry in charge of Industry. Thanks to its two hundred years of history, the school develops its teaching and research activities in six fields of excellence: Processes/Energy, Materials, Industrial Engineering, the Environment, Microelectronics and Health. It is located on two campuses, Saint-Étienne and Gardanne.