There are CS Engineering schools in France that have a large part of their teaching in "hard" science. For example, in my school (ENSIIE). I've studied Operati

There are CS Engineering schools in France that have a large part of their teaching in "hard" science. For example, in my school (ENSIIE). I've studied Operational Research, Graph Theory, Logic, Probability, Statistic, Formal Program Proof, and other subjects I don't remember (oups...). No Quantum Computing in my school however. But it might be present in better schools like ENSIMAG or Supelec. The side effect is that these schools tend to be old school in their purely technical teachings. No learning of <fancy JS framework released a weak ago> or how to configure <enterprise stuff> or <fancy cloud provider>, only basic programming skills in C, Java or CPP, SQL, a little assembly, OCaml and some Unix administration skills. By themselves, these schools will not produce code monkeys.