About Ircom
In the French panorama of Higher education our higher Education institution is special and atypical.
Country with a population of 68 million inhabitants, France has very few catholic higher education institutions which don’t hide their identity and deepen it.
A small college
With almost 500 students Ircom is one of the smallest and oldest French College that came into being in 1984.
We have a small number of students with friendly, family-like and good-humored atmosphere. We boost strong peer connections, great friendships, life-long bonds. Our Tight-knit community is opened to the world.
Small classes which it provides closeness and interactions with teachers, stronger student’s engagement…
Ircom makes up of nearly 300 workers:
- 40 full-time faculty and staff members work at Ircom.
- We employ about 250 non-tenured faculty.
Number of living Alumni: 3,000+.
The impact of our work is visible and invisible but effective. A worldwide alumni and professional network: a leverage far greater than our size.
We are a drop of calcareous water, a stalactite building its work of calcite which with humility is of service to the nation and to the world.
Why Ircom ?
When we reach a critical size (350-400 students in the same campus) − which is the size that allows us to monitor and help students and maintain a family spirit and that allows us to avoid anonymity − we only plan to expand elsewhere like cell division process. In the years ahead we plan to open a new campus in Bordeaux. Our degrees respond to needs we have heard and that were expressed to us, they were created to meet demand. We go where opportunities and Providence call us.
- Small class sizes
- Individual attention
- Close to 100 % paste rate
- High-quality teaching since 1984
- Extensive network of client and partner companies for internship
- Campus located in a calm, wooded environment
- Personalized tutoring and academic advising
Location
Ircom is located in France, near to Italy and Switzerland. The college has 3 campus.
About Angers
- Part of Loire Valley World Heritage
- 160 000 inhabitants
- 42 000 students. Angers has the 5th highest concentration of students in a French city (ratio of student population/overall population).
- TGV (high speed train) railway station:1 hr 30 from Paris ; 1hr 30 from the Atlantic Ocean ; 2 hr 30 min direct services to and from Charles de Gaulle airport.
About Lyon
- Former French capital
- 530 000 inhabitants
- 155 000 students
- TGV (high speed train) railway station: 2 hr from Paris ; 2 hr from the Alps
- International Airport Lyon Saint-Exupéry: 1 hr from Geneva (Switzerland)
About Bordeaux
Information in English to come.
Information in French available here [https://www.ircom.fr/campus/ecole-superieure-bordeaux/]
Offerings
Ircom offers:
- 2 programs for Teaching and Researching, and Paid-on Campus Internship/Placements
- 5 programs for students
Erasmus +
In 2007, Ircom was awarded with an Extended Erasmus University Charter.
In 2014 our internationalization efforts continued with the new Erasmus Charter for Higher Education under the Erasmus+ Programme.
[PDF/ Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027 – https://www.ircom.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECHE.pdf]
Ircom (legal name: Association Sainte Anne) holds an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE).
Our Erasmus code is: F ANGERS23
[Lien/ Erasmus programming period 2021-2027 – https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/grants/2021-2027_en]
[PDF/ Erasmus Policy Statement – https://www.ircom.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Declaration-strategie-E-2127_pour-site.pdf]
