École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne

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**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)
Professional students	46 (2005)
Location	Brest, France
Campus	Brest, Rennes
Website	http://www.enst-bretagne.fr

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.

1 History
2 Curriculum
3 Admission
4 Illustrious Alumni
5 See also
6 External links

[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 counts 31 students.
1986: Creation of the Rennes site.
1997: Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).

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[edit] 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: