About ENSAD Nancy
ENSAD Nancy is one of the 11 national art schools of the French Ministry of Culture. It is located in a new building designed by Dietrich-Untertrifaller on a recent campus named Artem (Art, Technology, Management), close to the city center.
The school offers a wide range of facilities and services: 16 workshops are available for our students’ projects (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramic, printing, 3D designing and printing, photography, cinema and video, gaming, etc.).
With around 220 students, ENSAD Nancy conserves a family-like atmosphere and is home for people from 30 countries.
A peculiarity of the school is its partnership with an engineering school and a business school on the same campus within the Artem Alliance.
The school also hosts the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT), a post-master’s research center dedicated to typography, that attracts young researchers from all over the world.
Organization of studies
Studies at ENSAD Nancy run from Bachelor that we also call “1er cycle” (3 years) to Master, that we also call “2nd cycle”(2 years).
From the first year on, students choose one of our 3 departments:
Fine arts: students are trained in a vast field of artistic practices and techniques (drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, film, sound, printed images, etc.) as well as theory (history and current events in art, philosophy and aesthetics, film) and an initiation to research through creation and on creation.
Download study plan for Fine Arts Bachelor – 2nd year (in French)
Download study plan for Fine Arts Bachelor – 3rd year (in French)
Download study plan for Fine Arts Master – 1st year (in French) – Will be available soon
Download study plan for Fine Arts Master- 2nd year (in French) – Will be available soon
Graphic design: this department trains graphic designers and “communicators” who are willing to take into consideration all the components of the artistic, graphic and informational ecosystems in which they intervene through a gesture, a printed document or digital publication, a photographic, videographic, scenographic or signage proposal, and more generally images and / or texts.
Download study plan for Graphic Design Bachelor – 2nd year (in French)
Download study plan for Graphic Design Bachelor – 3rd year (in French)
Download study plan for Communication Master – 1st year (in French) – Will be available soon
Download study plan for Communication Master – 2nd year (in French) – Will be available soon
Design: this department covers many fields: object design, space design, light design, service design, care design, medical design, interface design, public policy design, fictional design, etc. The Design department has a specific focus on environmental design through DM-Lab, a research group specialized in that field.
Download study plan for Design Bachelor 2nd year (in French)
Download study plan for Design Bachelor 3rd year (in French)
Download study plan for Design Master – 1st year (in French) – Will be available soon
Download study plan for Design Master – 2nd year (in French) – Will be available soon
Please note that teaching is in French. You can view the description of each course in this PDF document (in French).
Eligibility and application
Before applying, you should contact the international office of your home institution to check if they have signed an agreement with our school, and ask them to nominate you.
Once you have been nominated, you can fill in this application form and send it to caroline.barjon(a)ensa-nancy.fr along with the following documents:
– A portfolio (one PDF-file of 10 to 15 pages and 3 Mb max) in French or in English
– Your CV (in French or in English)
– A motivation letter describing your project and the classes you are interested in (in French or in English)
– A copy of passport/ID card
– A portrait picture in high definition (jpg file)
– The result of you EU French language placement test
All relevant information can be found in our fact sheet updated each year
French language
As teaching is mainly in French, we highly recommend at least a B1 level.
You can assess your level thanks to the French placement test available on the Online Linguistic Support of the European Union.
A 6-week French summer course is organized each year on our campus and a short intensive class is offered during the orientation week at our school.
Thanks to our buddy program, you can have French conversation with your mentor students. They are also here to help you with any administrative or pedagogical issue.
Useful documents
– Fact sheet (in English)
– Application form (in English)
– Student’s handbook (in French)
– Description of courses (in French)
– Welcome booklet for exchange students (in English)
Your contact person
Caroline BARJON
Head of international relations
caroline.barjon[a]ensa-nancy.fr
T +33 3 83 41 68 83