A WORD ABOUT GRENOBLE
Located at the heart of Alps, in France, Grenoble is sometimes referred to as France’s Silicon Valley. The city is one of the European leaders in the field of high-tech industries like nanotech and biotech. Many leading companies and global players have settled here (ST Microelectronics, Schneider, Air Liquid, etc)
Grenoble has four universities which accommodate more than 50,000 students (10% of the overall population). This makes it one of the biggest student-cities in the entire country. As you can imagine, the faculty of science has an excellent reputation.
The city is also home to one of the best maths & computer science engineering school (ENSIMAG) and research labs such as INRIA (National institute for computer science applied research), LETI, MINATEC, etc