École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne

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The Réseau Télécom

École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne (ENSTB; Template:IPA; Template:Translation) 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.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>

As a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, it had three campuses:

Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France);
Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France);
SUPAERO campus, in Toulouse (France).

Télécom Bretagne had been the source of breakthroughsTemplate:Citation needed in the world of telecommunications, notablyTemplate: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.
1986: Creation of the Rennes site.
1997: Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).
2008: Renamed Télécom Bretagne.
2012: Creation of the Institut Mines-Télécom.
2017: Merger with École des Mines de Nantes to form IMT Atlantique.

Master of engineering

For students admitted in formation initiale (FI, literally initial formation), the curriculum takes three 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 four options in 3rd year:

Engineering and system integration
Software systems and networks
Services and business engineering

Master of Sciences

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):

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

Pierre Gattaz, CEO of Radiall, president of MEDEF
Jean-Marc Jézéquel, computer scientist and author, director of IRISA
Imad Sabouni, Minister of Communications and Technology of Syria

Notable faculty

Adrienne Jablanczy, president of the Institut supérieur européen de gestion group

References

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