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Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) is a French public academic institution of Higher Education and Research for Innovation in the fields of engineering and digital technology, under the umbrella of Collegiate University. Established in 1996, and originally known as the "Groupe des écoles des télécommunications"[GET], came to be known with its current name in 2012, when the Mines schools, under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Industry, joined the Institut. This in March 2012, IMT gained the status of Grand establishment.

IMT is the leading group of engineering and management graduate schools in French ‘Grandes écoles’ in Information Technology and Management, France, supporting innovation and business development.

The Institut falls under the administrative aegis of the General Council for the Economy, Industry, Energy and Technologies.

IMT’s schools form a powerful group, complementing one another and working cohesively together. Their mission is to train business graduates, develop the economy and France’s territories and contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship in the areas of digital, energy, industrial and educational transitions.

Academics

IMT has 8 Engineering schools in the area of Telecommunications and ICT [Grandes Écoles], viz.

• IMT Atlantique in Brest, Rennes, Nantes, and Toulouse (e.g. École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne or ENST Bretagne merged with ex Ecole des Mines de Nantes in 2017),
• École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT Lille Douai) in Lille and Douai (ex-TELECOM Lille merged with ex-Ecole des Mines de Douai in 2017)
• Télécom ParisTech in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (ex École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Télécom Paris, or ENST)
• Télécom SudParis in Évry (ex-Telecom INT)
• IMT Mines Albi-Carmaux
• IMT Mines Alès
• École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne)
• Institut Mines-Télécom Business School in Évry and Paris (ex-Telecom Business School)

All IMT students are allowed to complete their 3rd year of study at any of its 12 different schools or its strategic partner, Mines Nancy through an Agreement of Mobility between these schools.

With an enrolment of 12 300 students, IMT prides itself to be on par with some of the major American universities like MIT and Stanford. IMT awards 4200 degrees. Each year, IMT's schools roll out 850 graduate engineers and 150 managers from their combined enrolment of 5,500 students, including more than 700 doctoral candidates and 790 in master’s degree programs. The schools offer 20 different Master of Science programs taught wholly or partly in English.

Some of Institut Mines-Télécom’ assets make the group unique in France.

• IMT has a reputation of 90% of graduates going straight into permanent work contracts.
• IMT provides a multicultural environment to its students as 38% of its students are international students from 60 different countries.
• IMT has a strong alumni network that guides the students to make their career choices by providing them not only career information, but also facilitating professional networking.
• ITM’s research is the third best in France and a prominent one in European research circles
• Its intense support for business creation through four incubators that have spawned more than 260 firms and created 1,000 jobs in nine years. Every year around one hundred start-up companies leave its incubators.
• IMT has close and varied relations with enterprises through degree programs, continuing education, research and its academic excellence scholarship programs.

Its training and research for innovation are rolled out in the Mines and Télécom Graduate Schools, which combine high academic and scientific legitimacy in the ever-changing areas of Digital Affairs, Energy and Ecology, and Industry.

The schools (Grandes Écoles) are accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) to deliver the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur.

IMT has a strategic partnership with ARMINES, a Mines school-related research organization and with École nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy, dependent on the Ministry of National Education.

Institut Mines-Télécom has EURECOM (founded in 1991, a consortium with european academic and industrial partners in Sophia Antipolis) and inSIC (a consortium with Université de Lorraine in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges) as its subsidiaries.

Institut Mines-Télécom is a founding member of the Industry of the Future Alliance and the University of Paris-Saclay. It maintains close relationships with the economic world and has two Carnot Institutes.