École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne

Telecom Bretagne

Motto	A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies
Established	1977
Type	French Grande Ecole
President	Paul Friedel
Administrative staff	300 (2009)
Students	1,219 (2009)
Undergraduates	998 (2009)
Postgraduates	430 (2009)
Doctoral students	221 (2009)
Location	Brest, France
Campus	Brest, Rennes
Website	official

the Réseau Télécom

Telecom Bretagne (formerly known as ENST Bretagne) is one of the top French grande école 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 Telecom, it has three campuses:

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

Telecom Bretagne has 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.

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 Telecom Bretagne.
• 2012: Creation of the Institut Mines-Télécom.

Master of engineering

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:

• Mathematics and signal processing
• Electronics and physics
• Computer science
• Networks
• Economy and social sciences
• Languages and intercultural dimensions

and 4 options in 3rd year :

• Engineering and system integration
• Software systems and networks
• Services and business engineering
• Information processing systems.

Master of Sciences

Telecom Bretagne delivers Master of Science 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 (IT):

• MSc in Telecommunication Systems Engineering
• MSc in Design and Engineering of Communication Networks
• MSc in Computer Science & Decision Systems
• MSc in Information Systems Project Management & Consulting

(Mastères spécialisés, mastères 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.

Notable Alumni

• Pierre Gataz, 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

See also

• Institut Telecom
• Telecom ParisTech
• Telecom & Management SudParis

External links

• Official site
• Official facebook
• Students' web pages
• Alumni Association
• Junior Entreprise
• ESN Section