ENS Paris-Saclay is the Université Paris-Saclay's rigorously selective graduate school for research and higher education careers, and upholdsthe highest scientific standards. 

As both a school and centre for research, ENS Paris-Saclay is faithful to the Ecoles normales supérieures' tradition of excellence. Through its diploma (4-year degree), it provides "normaliens" with bolstered research-led disciplinary training with an international and multidisciplinary outlook in the fields of fundamental sciences, engineering as well as humanities and social sciences. This education scheme then leads them to a master's degree or doctorate. 

In 2020, ENS Paris-Saclay moved to a new building on the Plateau de Saclay (30km South from Paris) and can more easily benefit from the opportunities provided by the cluster Paris-Saclay and the newly established Université Paris-saclay, from which ENS Paris-Saclay is a component-institution. 

For its first classification, Université Paris-Saclay was ranked 14th in the world in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and first in the world in Mathematics as well as 9th in the world in Physics (1st in Europe). 

In short, Université Paris-Saclay ranks among the Top 50 best universities in the world in no less than 25 disciplines.