École nationale d'ingénieurs de Tarbes  The École nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes - ENIT (English: "National school of engineers of Tarbes") is a French school of engineering leading to the French “Diplôme d'Ingénieur” under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT). Founded in 1963, about 200 students graduate from the ENIT each year. ENIT is part of the ENI group (national schools of engineers), which is a network of 4 French public engineering schools. ENIT is located in Tarbes in the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, in the Southwest of France 30 km east of Pau and 150 km south of Toulouse. It is about 1 hour 50 minutes drive away from the beach resort of Biarritz and 45 minutes drive away from the main ski resort of the Pyrénées mountain. In Tarbes, ENIT is located in the southwest, in the Tarbes-Pyrenees university center that includes several schools, laboratories, university residence and a cafeteria. The school and campus are served by bus lines 1, 3 and 5 at the ENI and Center universitaire stops. The lines also connect the city center (Verdun place) and the railway station. ENIT is composed of course buildings, a library, a laboratory with a machining workshop, a gym and a garden. The main admission (60%) to the ENIT is made through a selective examination during the year leading to the French “baccalauréat”, most of the successful candidates come from the scientific stream or “Bac S”. There is however further possibilities to join the ENIT later on after 2 years of studies in a University Institutes of Technology, in a Higher School Preparatory Classes, or at the University, the selection being on academic records. Foreign students can join ENIT via this traditional engineering studies route or via the exchange route (semester in either French or English). ENIT trains general engineers in five years that leads to the “Diplôme d'Ingénieur” degree, which is the equivalent of a five-year Master of Engineering degree (MEng.) or Master of science (MsC) (300 validated ECTS). Following a “common trunk” of 3 years during which the fundamentals sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry and electronics), engineering sciences (mechanics, design, manufacturing, industrial engineering, industrial IT, materials), and humanities sciences (communication, management, economics + English, espagnol, German languages) are taught, students specialize during the next 2 years in 5 different departments:   Like most all of the French educational system the ENIT is following the tradition of the Encyclopédistes which focus on breadth rather than depth.