Editing Cherbourg (section)

===Education===
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| School of Quartermasters || align=right| 768
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| [[IUT Cherbourg-Manche]] || align=right| 573
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| BTS and various preparation ||align=right| 349
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| School of Engineering (Esix) ||align=right|270
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| Institute of Nursing || align=right| 215
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| Licences and university diplomas ||align=right|191
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| {{Interlanguage link|Institut national des sciences et techniques de la mer|fr|3=Institut national des sciences et techniques de la mer|lt=Intechmer}} ||align=right| 153
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| School of Fine Arts of Cherbourg-Octeville ||align=right| 46
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|[[École des applications militaires de l'énergie atomique|EAMEA]] || align=right| 39
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| ECD – School of Trade and Distribution || align=right| 22
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| National Institute of science and nuclear technology || align=right| 8
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[[File:École d'ingénieurs de l'université de Caen.jpg|thumb|right|The Engineering School of Cherbourg, on the main university campus.]]

Two {{Interlanguage link|Zone d'éducation prioritaire|fr|3=Zone d'éducation prioritaire|lt=ZEP}} have been defined, one being on Cherbourg territory in the Quarter of Maupas, the other straddling Cherbourg and Octeville, in the quarter of the Provinces.

Cherbourg-Octeville has six high schools:

*The former college, which became high school in 1886, is known by the name of Lycée Victor Grignard (830 students: General and TSG, as well as {{Interlanguage link|Classes préparatoires scientifiques|fr|3=Classes préparatoires scientifiques|lt=scientific preparatory classes}}).
*The Lycée Jean-François Millet (1,210 students: General sector, preparatory health, [[Khâgne|preparatory literary classes]]).
*The Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville (1,480 students: General sector, technical, professional and higher education -BTS-).
*The Ingénieur-Cachin private professional high school (320 students).
*The Thomas Hélye private high school, the Sainte-Chantal private lycée and the La Bucaille technological lycée (1,005 students, courses) general and technical.
*The aquaculture and marine high school (102 pupils). On 28 June 2013, this became the professional maritime and aquaculture lycée {{Interlanguage link|Daniel Rigolet|fr}}.

The university campus, installed on the heights of Octeville, focuses the [[Cherbourg School of Engineering]], the [[IUT Cherbourg-Manche]] (which hosts approximately 1,000 students in initial or continuing education through four DUT departments, four pro licenses, one DU, a DCEF and a DAEU), as well as two branches of the [[University of Caen Lower Normandy|University of Caen]] (UFR sciences and UFR modern foreign languages). The Pasteur hospital houses the Institute of training in nursing of Cherbourg-Octeville. The Group FIM, training service of the two [[chamber of commerce|chambers of commerce and industry]] of la Mancha, manages the school of trade and distribution, and since 2007, the Institute of promotion and marketing boating, forming alternating a fortnight of accreditation in the field of boating (shipbuilding, nautical services company, marinas, etc.).

The Institute of the Film Industry of Normandy is installed as a result of the [[École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation|International School of Audiovisual Creation and Realisation]] (EICAR) on the site of the former {{Interlanguage link|Hôpital des armées René-Le-Bas|fr|3=Hôpital des armées René-Le-Bas|lt=maritime hospital}}. It is complemented by the training of apprentices of the Performing Arts and Audiovisual Centre, while the {{Interlanguage link|École supérieure d'arts et médias de Caen - Cherbourg|fr|lt=School of Fine Arts}} (Esbaco), founded in 1912 by Henri Buffet design Professor and Professor of modelling Félix Delteil, is located in the former convent of the [[Little Sisters of the Poor]] (Bassins zone) since 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/cherbourg_octeville/culture/ecole_des_beaux-arts/default.asp|title=Cherbourg-Octeville et son école, petite chronologie de l'Esbaco|work=City of Cherbourg-Octeville|access-date=19 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328141117/http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/cherbourg_octeville/culture/ecole_des_beaux-arts/default.asp|archive-date=28 March 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Cherbourg-Octeville welcomes the {{Interlanguage link|School of the military applications of Atomic Energy|fr|3=École des applications militaires de l'énergie atomique|lt=School of the Military Applications of Atomic Energy}} (EAMEA, 351 students) and the [[Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires|National Institute of Science and Nuclear Technology]] - remains of the importance of the army in the city - while the School of the Quartermasters (between 600 and 700 students) is located at [[Querqueville]].

The town also hosts the {{Interlanguage link|National Institute of Science and Technology of the Sea|fr|3=Institut national des sciences et techniques de la mer|lt=National Institute of Science and Technology of the Sea}} (Intechmer), Tourlaville.