École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne

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Type French Grande Ecole President Paul Friedel Students 1,219 (2009) Total enrollment 2,300 (2016) Founded 1977		Established 1977 Administrative staff 300 (2009) Undergraduates 998 (2009) Phone +33 2 29 00 11 11

Address 655 Avenue du Technopôle, 29200 Plouzané, France Motto A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies Similar Télécom ParisTech, Telecom SudParis, École nationale supérieur, École des mines de Nantes, European University of Brittany Profiles Google+

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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 Mines-Telecom, it has three campuses:

Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France);

Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France);

SUPAERO campus, in Toulouse (France).

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

1974: Pierre Lelong – Secretary of State for the PTT (literally Postal Telegraph and Telephone) – decides to establish a second school of telecommunications that will be located in the Brest area.

1977: Creation of ENST Bretagne in Brest. Admission of the first student body which counted 31 students.

1986: Creation of the Rennes site.

1997: Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).

2008: Renamed Telecom Bretagne.

2012: Creation of the Institut Mines-Télécom.

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:

Mathematics and signal processing

Electronics and physics

Computer science

Networks

Economy and social sciences

Languages and intercultural dimensions

and 4 options in 3rd year :

Engineering and system integration

Software systems and networks

Services and business engineering

Information processing systems.

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):

MSc in Telecommunication Systems Engineering

MSc in Design and Engineering of Communication Networks

MSc in Computer Science & Decision Systems

MSc in Information Systems Project Management & Consulting

(Mastères spécialisés, masters 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.