CY Cergy Paris Université

CY école de design is the public design school of CY Cergy Paris Université, created within CY Tech, the university’s grande école of engineering. It belongs to CY Alliance, four graduate schools and thirteen grandes écoles including ESSEC Business School, and it frames its teaching through the university’s baseline, Design your life.

The school is directed by Dominique Sciamma and advised by a professional council chaired by Pierre-Yves Panis of Signify and a scientific council chaired by Frédéric Vidal of CY Cergy Paris Université.

Programmes centre on a five-year Master in Global Design, delivered as a 3+2 course with a grade de Master at RNCP level 7, entry through Parcoursup and parallel admissions from the second year, a semester abroad in year three and work-study in the final two years. The curriculum is built on seven pillars gathered as the Design Mix and involves no vertical specialisation, with all student projects motivated by the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

CY école de design is based at iXcampus in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a wooded classified park that also hosts technology start-ups, with a restored nineteenth-century château, a convention centre by architect Dominique Perrault, a 300-seat amphitheatre. Facilities include a design studio for each group of twenty students, two computer labs with Wacom tablets and model-making and fabrication workshops.