The École normale supérieure is one of the most selective and prestigious graduate schools in Paris, France. It is one of the French grandes écoles and a constituent member of PSL University.
founded in 1794, and was intended to provide the Republic with a new body of professors, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the Enlightenment
The principal goal of ENS is the training of professors, researchers and public administrators. Its alumni include 14 Nobel Prize laureates, of which 8 are in Physics (ENS has the highest proportion of Nobel laureates among its alumni of any institution worldwide