France spends 49.5 billion euros on research, equal to 2.22% of its GDP. This has enabled the country to achieve its objectives, in particular at an international level, and to attract talented researchers from around the world.
France counts nearly 285,000 researchers, with 60% of them in industry in addition of 74,000 doctoral candidates every year. 41% of those enrolled in French Doctoral schools are foreigners and 54% of French scientific publications are the result of international collaboration.
World Top Ranked French Research :
The CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), which works with universities, is the leading research institute in the world in terms of number of scientific publications with 30 000 researchers.France has more than 267,000 research directors, professors, lecturers, staff research and researchers in companies. 60% are employed in the industry. Their work is published in the best-known international scientific journals and have the following excellent rankings :
- 7th in the world in number of scientific publications
- 6th in the world in number of patent applications
- 4th in the world in impact of publications (H-Index)
- 4th in the world in number of Nobel Prizes(Gérard Mourou in Physics in 2018, Jean-Pierre Sauvage in Chemistry in 2016, Jean Tirole in Economics in 2014, Serge Haroche in Physics in 2012, etc.)
- 2nd in the world in number of Fields Medals for Mathematics
Join the French research excellence !
In France, a Doctorate is prepared in a Doctoral school which is attached to a university and often to the CNRS. To find where to do a Doctorate, check our "Research" portal. It lists the Doctoral schools as well as a number of Doctoral programmes, Master's and Post-Doctorate subjects and grants https://doctorat.campusfrance.org/phd/offers.
Most the doctorates can be completed in English. To have an overview of the different research fields, you can check the « research profiles » : physics, chemistry, energy, nanosciences, archaelogy, etc.
