École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne (lit.'Brittany National School of Telecommunications') 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]
Télécom Bretagne had been the source of breakthroughs[citation needed] in the world of telecommunications, notably[citation needed] 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.
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:
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):
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(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.
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