École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne


Telecom Bretagne is one of the top French public institutions of higher education and research of engineering in France, 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:
Telecom Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs in the world of telecommunications, notably the turbo codes used extensively in 3G mobile telephony standards.

History

For students admitted in formation initiale, the curriculum takes 3 years and deals with six main domains in 1st and 2nd year:
and 4 options in 3rd year :
Telecom Bretagne delivers 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 :
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