To establish this ranking, L'Etudiant evaluates 4 criteria: academic excellence, proximity to companies, international outlook and openness to new audiences. With 28 points, UniLaSalle belongs to the B group of engineering schools (ranked between 36th and 105th position).

For the overall ranking, it is possible to filter the specialties offered. UniLaSalle is the leader among EESPIG-certified institutions in 3 of its specialties: "Bioengineering, Food Processing and Medical Engineering", "Agriculture, Forestry and Biosystems Engineering" and "Geological Engineering". It also came second in "Environmental Engineering".

A welcome openness to business

Furthermore, for Relations with companies and preparation for professional integration, UniLaSalle is ranked in the top tier of all establishments in its fields of specialization (see extracts from the 4 spreadsheets below) on the basis of the total of the following 6 criteria: exit salary, Policy of industrial chairs, number of medium-sized and large companies present at forums, number of SMEs present at forums, number of lecturers from the business world, number of alumni on the Linkedin network. In other words :

• 2nd position out of 21 for bioengineering, agrifood and medical engineering,
• 1st position out of 10 for agriculture, forestry and biosystems engineering
• 1st position out of 8 for geological engineering,
• 5th position out of 22 for Environmental Engineering.

These results are totally consistent with Figaro's 2020 ranking published last December or the "Industrie et Technologies" magazine's entrepreneurship ranking published in September 2019.

From a methodological point of view, l'Etudiant's ranking uses declarative data from two sources: certified data from the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (©CTI - Year 2019) and press data from the Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d'ingénieurs (©CDEFI - Year 2019). Of the 167 of the 200 French engineering schools that took part, 129 are public establishments, 2 consular and 36 private.