Great public engineering school, created in 1957, ...

Great public engineering school, created in 1957, recruiting mainly post-baccalaureate (70% of the outgoing promo approximately). INSA Lyon is part of the network of INSA (with Toulouse, Renne, Rouen and Strasbourg).
INSA Lyon trains more than 800 engineers a year and has a total of 4800 students (in integrated preparation, engineering and PhD).
The engineering cycle offers 12 specialized departments (computer science, telecom, mechanical, energy and environmental, civil engineering ...).
Numerous laboratories and partnerships (CNRS), make INSA the second school in term of research CA, with more than 14M per year.
The Associative Life is very developed and very rich: more than 100 associations, sports, cultural, humanitarian and others animate the campus.
The most famous: The 24 Hours of INSA, Karnaval Humanitarian, the festival A Doua Jazz.
INSA Lyon's Student Office is one of the largest in France, in size and budget.