École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ de min də sɛ̃t‿etjɛn]), also called École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (literally meaning "Saint-Étienne School of Mines") or simply Mines Saint-Étienne and commonly abbreviated EMSE is a prestigious French graduate engineering school (grandes écoles) training engineers and carrying out industry-oriented research. Its function is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the initial training of generalist engineers ingénieurs civils des mines, to PhD teaching; from material sciences to micro-electronics via process engineering, mechanics, the environment, civil engineering, finance, computer science and health engineering.