Chennai Mathematical Institute has a formal agreement with the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, one of the leading institutions in the world for teaching and research in Mathematics, for regular exchanges of visits by academic members of CMI and ENS, Paris. Each year, top-ranking senior B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science students from CMI spend the summer at ENS working on research problems with faculty there. In return, members of ENS visit CMI each year to participate in research and to teach in the B.Sc. programme.
The Institute has a similar arrangement with Ecole Polytechnique in Paris whereby top-ranking senior B.Sc. Physics students spend the summer in Paris working with faculty at Ecole Polytechnique.
The Institute also has a formal agreement with the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, France, for exchange of B.Sc. and M.Sc. students and for a joint Ph.D. programme in Computer Science and Mathematics.
CMI is one of three non-European partners in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme ALGANT (ALgebra Geometry And Number Theory), funded by the European Union. The ALGANT programme allows students to pursue Masters and Doctorate degrees across the institutions participating in the programme.