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Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
Motto	A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies
Established	1977
Type	French Grande Ecole
President	André Chomette
Staff	288 (2005)
Students	1,084 (2005)
Undergraduates	804 (2005)
Postgraduates	280 (2005)
Doctoral students	185 (2005)
Location	Brest, France
Campus	Brest, Rennes
Website	http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu

Coordinates: 48°21′33″N 4°34′12″W / 48.35917°N 4.57°W / 48.35917; -4.57

The École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, or TELECOM Bretagne (formerly known as ENST Bretagne) is a French research centre and high level training institution 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 two campuses:

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

TELECOM Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs^{[citation needed]} in the world of telecommunications, notably^{[citation needed]} the turbo codes (first published in Proc. IEEE ICC'93) used extensively in 3G mobile telephony standards.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Curriculum

Locations of GET schools

For students admitted in formation initiale (FI, literally initial formation), the curriculum takes 3 years and deals with six main domains in 1^st and 2^nd year:

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

and 4 options in 3^rd year :

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

(Mastères spécialisés, mastères de recherche, PhDs...)

[edit] Admission

[edit] Illustrious Alumni

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[edit] External links