École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan) is a Grande École located in Cachan, a suburb of Paris (5 min from Porte d'Orléans). It is a higher education establishment outside of the mainstream framework of the public universities. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
It trains researchers, professors and may also be a starting point for high administrative or private executive careers. It recruits mostly from taupes, biology prèpas and khâgnes, but also from (economics) prépas HEC (only 9 per year).