The École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique or ENSAE is one of the French Grandes Ecoles of engineering and a member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology). It is one of France's top schools of economics and statistics and is directly attached to France's National Institute of Economic and Statistical Information (INSEE) and the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Students are given a proficient training both in economics and statistics and they can get specialized in macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics or finance. The ENSAE has the ability to train its students for the French actuary graduation (Institut des Actuaires). The ENSAE was established in 1942 under the National Statistics Service (ancestor of the INSEE, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) under the name of the School of Applied Statistics. In 1946, the creation of INSEE, the school took the name of INSEE Specialization School. At this time, the school lead to two types of administrative career: "administrateur" (the highest managing level of the INSEE administration) and "attaché" (the lower level) civil servant executives.