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The 'École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne' ('ENST Bretagne', sometimes known as 'Télécom Bretagne' or even 'Télécom Brest') 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.
Member of Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET, literally ''Group of Schools of Telecommunication''), it has two campuses:

★ Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France);

★ Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France).
The ENST 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.

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History

Curriculum

Admission

Illustrious Alumni

See also

External links

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 counts 31 students.

★ '1986:' Creation of the Rennes site.

★ '1997:' Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).

Curriculum

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 dimension
and 4 options in 3^rd year :

★ Engineering and system integration

★ Software systems et networks

★ Services and business engineering

★ Information processing systems.
(Mastères spécialisés, mastères de recherche, PhDs...)

Admission

Illustrious Alumni

See also

★ École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris

★ Telecom INT

External links

★ Official site

★ Students' web pages

★ Alumni Association

★ Junior Entreprise