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| Type | French Grande École |
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| Active | 1977–2017 |
| President | Paul Friedel |
Administrative staff | 300 (2009) |
| Students | 1,219 (2009) |
| Undergraduates | 998 (2009) |
| Postgraduates | 430 (2009) |
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| Location | , France 48°21′33″N4°34′12″W / 48.35917°N 4.57000°W /48.35917; -4.57000 |
| Campus | Brest,Rennes |
| Website | official |
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École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne (ENSTB;French pronunciation:[ekɔlnɑsjɔnalsypeʁjœʁdetelekɔmynikasjɔ̃dəbʁətaɲ];transl. "Brittany National School of Telecommunications") was a Frenchgrande école of engineering, and a research center providing training in information technologies and telecommunications. In 2017, it merged withÉcole des mines de Nantes to formIMT 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]
As a member of theInstitut Mines-Télécom, it had three campuses:
Télécom Bretagne had been the source of breakthroughs[citation needed] in the world of telecommunications, notably[citation needed] theturbo codes (first published in Proc. IEEEICC'93) used extensively in3G, 4G mobile telephony standards and other wireless systems including space communications.
For students admitted information initiale (FI, literallyinitial formation), the curriculum takes three years and deals with six main domains in 1st and 2nd year:
and four options in 3rd year:
Télécom Bretagne deliversMaster 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 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 inCPGE. 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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