Editing Rennes (section)

==Education==
[[File:Rennes - Université Rennes 1 - cloitre faculté d'économie.JPG|thumb|Rennes 1 University]]
[[File:Campus Villejean - Rennes.jpg|thumb|right|Campus of Villejean]]

The Rennes agglomeration has a large student population (around 63,000).

The city has two main universities; ''[[University of Rennes|Université de Rennes]]'', which offers courses in science, technology, medicine, philosophy, law, management, and economics, and ''[[University of Rennes 2 - Upper Brittany|Université Rennes 2]]'', which has courses in the arts, literature, languages, communication, human and social sciences, and sport. The official website of Université Rennes 2 identifies the facility as "the largest research and higher learning institution in Arts, Literature, Languages, Social Sciences and Humanities in the West of France."

There are a few ''[[Education in France#École Supérieure|École Supérieure]]s'' in Rennes, such as the ''[[École Normale Supérieure de Rennes]]'' on the Ker Lann campus just outside Rennes, the ''[[Institut d'études politiques de Rennes]]'', and the [[Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes|ESC Rennes School of Business]].

There are also branches of the ''[[École Supérieure d'Électricité]]'' – [[Supélec]] and [[École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne|Telecom Bretagne]] in the east of the city ([[Cesson-Sévigné]]), a campus of the ''[[École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies]]'', a campus of the ''[[École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées]]'', and the ''[[INSA Rennes|Institut National des Sciences Appliquées]]'', a ''[[grande école]]'' which is next to the ''[[École nationale supérieure de chimie de Rennes]]''.

The computer science and applied mathematics research institute, [[IRISA]], is located on the campus of the Université des Sciences, near Cesson-Sévigné. The ''[[Délégation Générale pour l'Armement]]'' (defence procurement agency) operates the CELAR research centre, dedicated to electronics and computing, in the neighbouring town of Bruz.

The [[Catholic University of Rennes]] (''Institut Catholique de Rennes'') is a Catholic university founded in 1989.

The city is also home to an American study abroad program for high school students, [[School Year Abroad]], in which students are immersed in French culture through five classes in the language and a nine-month home stay.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ayearinrennes.weebly.com/ |title=Home |publisher=Ayearinrennes.weebly.com |date= |access-date=2022-03-16}}</ref>

The ''École Compleméntaire Japonaise de Rennes'' (レンヌ補習授業校 ''Rennu Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a [[Hoshuko|part-time Japanese supplementary school]], is based in the ''Collège Anne de Bretagne'' in Rennes.<ref name=MEXTEuropeHoshuko>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20140330190146/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/004.htm 欧州の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140330190146/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/004.htm Archive]). [[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology]] (MEXT). Retrieved 10 May 2014. "College Anne de Bretagne 15, rue de Martenot, 35000 RENNES"</ref>