École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne

Coordinates: 48°21′33″N 4°34′12″W / 48.35917°N 4.57000°W / 48.35917; -4.57000

Telecom Bretagne
Motto A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies
Type French Grande Ecole
Established 1977
President Paul Friedel
Administrative staff
300 (2009)
Students 1,219 (2009)
Undergraduates 998 (2009)
Postgraduates 430 (2009)
221 (2009)
Location Brest, France
Campus Brest, Rennes
Website official
the Réseau Télécom

Telecom Bretagne (formerly known as ENST Bretagne) is one of the top French grande école and a high standard research centre providing high level training in Information Technologies and telecommunications. This grande école of engineering is located near Brest in Brittany.

As a member of the Institut Telecom, it has three campuses:

Telecom Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs in the world of telecommunications, notably the turbo codes (first published in Proc. IEEE ICC'93) used extensively in 3G mobile telephony standards.

History

Master of engineering

For students admitted in formation initiale (FI, literally initial formation), the curriculum takes 3 years and deals with six main domains in 1st and 2nd year:

and 4 options in 3rd year :

Master of Sciences

Telecom Bretagne delivers Master of Science degrees, which are fully compliant with the Bologna system. MSc are two-year training courses leading to a high level of expertise in Information Technologies (IT):

(Mastères spécialisés, mastères de recherche, PhDs...)

Admission

Admission for the Engineering degree is decided, for most French students, through competitive examination after two to three years of mostly theoretical physics and mathematics classes in CPGE. Foreign students and a few French students are selected after undergraduate or graduate studies based on their results and specific tests.

Notable Alumni

Notable faculty

See also

External links

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