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Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur
34, avenue Charles de Gaulle
F-92200 NEUILLY SUR SEINE
Tél : + 33 1 55 55 67 25 - + 33 1 55 55 75 06
Website: www.cti-commission.fr/
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Accreditation Process:
Institutions (private and public) awarding engineering degrees are accredited by the ministries that oversee them, following an opinion by the national commission on engineering degrees -- La Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI).
CTI (Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur) is an independent body established by the French law in 1934. CTI has progressively widened its activities. It has been fully involved in the development of the European Higher Education Area. Its legal missions are respectively: the evaluation and assessment of higher education institutions in the fields of engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, project management, etc; the development of quality in engineering education; the promotion of engineering curricula and careers in France and abroad.
There are about 220 French institutions accredited by CTI, delivering about 30,000 engineering master’s degrees each year. In addition, the French law has given the CTI the capacity to evaluate and assess engineering curricula provided outside France. CTI has accredited curricula in Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Viet-Nam; others are in process of being accredited in China, India, Belgium, etc.
CTI has focused on the following goals:
• to support higher education engineering institutions in the implementation of effective internal quality assurance;
• to foster competence-based engineering education;
• to offer its experience to foreign universities wishing to increase their international visibility.
CTI has the unique feature of comprising 32 members, equally representatives of the academic world and of entreprises : 16 are university professors or staff members, 8 are representatives of industrial company associations, 8 are representatives of trade unions and associations of engineers. All members are selected by their own organisations and appointed by the ministry of Education for a 4-year mandate, renewable once. CTI members contribute to all activities : development of standards and guidelines, site visits, evaluation and assessment of programmes, approval of decisions and recommendations. CTI selects and appoints experts on the basis of
their scientific competences and international experience. Experts contribute to the evaluation and assessment of the programmes.
The evaluation and accreditation of engineering curricula by CTI are proceeded according to the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG developed by ENQA) and to the standards of EUR-ACE label (European Accreditation Consortium of Engineering Programmes).
The evaluation procedure is the following: the institutions must fill in an application form. CTI appoints a project team made of CTI members and experts. After examining the file, the team proceeds to a site visit (1 or 2 days) and writes a report which is submitted for discussion and approval to the CTI plenary meeting. If the evaluation is positive, the accreditation is valid for a maximum of 6 years. This period may be reduced to 3 years or even less if the evaluation points out important problems which need to be solved rapidly.
