In France, the concours Advance is a test to access four main engineering colleges:
- École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées for computer science and software engineering ;
- École spéciale de mécanique et électricité for energy ;
- Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées for aeronautical and aerospace engineering.
- Sup'Biotech for biotechnology.
The test has been created in 2011 by IONIS Education Group.