Masters in Electronics Engineering in France: Universities, Fees & Careers 2026-27

The table below compares nine options on degree type, language and application route.

Fees are shown as published: annual where a school publishes an annual rate, total-program where it doesn’t, like ESIGELEC.

Reading the fee table

France runs two separate fee tracks. The national EU/French-student rate is EUR 255 a year for a master’s, or EUR 2,620 a year for a diplome d’ingenieur started after 1 September 2018 (Service-Public.fr, higher-education registration fees). An older EUR 630 rate applied only to programs that began before that date, so it is not current. Non-EU students at many public institutions covered by the differentiated-fee system instead pay around EUR 3,950 a year for either degree type. Engineering schools, own-degree MSc programs and private grandes ecoles, like ESECA and Junia, may set their own fees outside this national schedule entirely, so always verify the program page; the differentiated-rate figures above are indicative, based on the rate INSA Toulouse publishes for its own master’s and engineering cycle.

For most Indian students a public engineering school is the sweet spot, undercutting Junia and Polytechnique by a wide margin, a big draw for a master’s in France. Parents: ring-fence EUR 3,950 to EUR 9,080 a year (roughly INR 4.3 lakh to INR 9.9 lakh) for tuition, against EUR 15,400 (about INR 16.8 lakh) at Ecole Polytechnique, before living costs.

The public route: ESECA and Grenoble INP Phelma

Toulouse’s flagship electronics program is ESECA (MSc Electronics Systems for Embedded and Communicating Applications), a 2-year, full-time program jointly run by Toulouse INP-ENSEEIHT and INSA Toulouse. For the current intake, it charges EUR 9,080 a year (approx INR 9.90 lakh) standard, or EUR 5,393 a year (approx INR 5.88 lakh) on a reduced rate for academic partners, EU students, students from some developing countries and merit-based selectees (ESECA program page).

Don’t confuse this with INSA Toulouse’s generic differentiated-fee master’s and engineering-cycle route, which still runs around EUR 3,950 a year for its other, non-ESECA tracks. The two are separate programs with separate price tags. ESECA also folds in a paid five-to-six-month final-year internship, and Grenoble INP Phelma’s Integrated Electronic Systems master’s remains the CTI-accredited, 180-ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) engineering-diploma alternative for microelectronics.

The near-free route: Universite de Limoges

Limoges is the exception, not the rule. For 2025-26 and 2026-27 it lets non-EU students pay the EU national fee through an exoneration partielle (partial exemption) of the droits differencies (differentiated fees), capped at 10% of enrolment (Universite de Limoges exemption notice). That EU/national master’s rate is EUR 255 a year (approx INR 27,818), the same figure INSA Toulouse publishes for its own EU-rate students; a microelectronique (microelectronics) applicant at Limoges who wins one of those capped seats pays this rate, and misses the cap pays the full EUR 3,950 differentiated rate like everyone else.

The private and elite route: Junia ISEN Lille and Ecole Polytechnique

Fees jump here. As of the 2025-26 rate, Junia’s private ISEN Lille charged EUR 9,000 plus a EUR 500 student-life fee (Junia tuition and fees); the 2026-27 figure is not yet posted. For 2026-27, Ecole Polytechnique tops the range at EUR 15,400 a year for most MSc&T specializations (Ecole Polytechnique master’s tuition fees), about four times the public differentiated rate. Our cost of studying in France guide sets these against living costs.

Once you know the shape, pick the track. The electronics engineering curriculum in France splits into four broad specializations, and most schools let you weight your final year toward one of them: