Centrale Méditerranée (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁal meditɛʁane]), formerly known as École Centrale de Marseille ([ekɔl sɑ̃tʁal də maʁsɛj]), is a leading graduate school of engineering (or Grande école of engineering) located in Marseille, the second largest city in France.

Centrale Méditerranée was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions and has its origins from the École d'Ingénieurs de Marseille founded in 1891.

[1] It is one of the prestigious Centrale Graduate Schools[2] (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Marseille) and a member of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network.

Centrale Méditerranée is a multidisciplinary school, where the great majority of the students have endured two or three years of intensive maths and physics training (known as prepa) in order to train for the Concours Centrale-Supélec (known as one of the hardest competitive exams in France).

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities across the world, among them : Eight research laboratories are under the joint leadership of Ecole Centrale Marseille and Aix-Marseille University : Centrale Méditerranée is ranked among the top 20[10] French Grandes Ecoles (graduate schools), though it does not appear in international rankings due to its very limited number of students (250 students for the class of 2016).