| Télécom Bretagne | |
| Established: | 1977 |
| Closed: | 2017 |
| City: | Brest |
| Campus: | Brest, Rennes |
| Country: | France |
| Type: | French Grande École |
| President: | Paul Friedel |
| Administrative Staff: | 300 (2009) |
| Students: | 1,219 (2009) |
| Undergrad: | 998 (2009) |
| Postgrad: | 430 (2009) |
| Doctoral: | 221 (2009) |
| Website: | official |
École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne was a French grande école of engineering, and a research center providing training in information technologies and telecommunications. In 2017, it merged with École des mines de Nantes to form IMT Atlantique, which has consistently been ranked high in French and international rankings, e.g. 98 for Computer Science and 151-200th for Electrical Engineering in the 2023 QS Ranking.[1]
As a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, it had three campuses:
Télécom Bretagne had 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.
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 :
Télécom Bretagne delivers Master of Science degrees, which are fully compliant with the Bologna system. MSc is a two-year training course leading to a high level of expertise in Information Technologies (IT):
(Mastères spécialisés, masters de recherche, PhDs...)
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.