IMT ATLANTIQUE
IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire (also known as École Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire or École des Mines Télécom Atlantique) is a leading French engineering school, created in 2017 by merging the École nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes and Telecom Bretagne. It is a French Elite Graduate Engineering School, belonging to the IMT Institute, under the authority of Minister of Industry and Electronic Communications.
IMT Atlantique is one of the applied schools of the École Polytechnique and the acceptance rate at IMT Atlantique is 8.7%.
Its ambition is to combine digital, environment and energy to shape the society and the industry. With 500 permanent staff (290 of them academic staff), IMT Atlantique trains more than 2300 students (including 1400 engineers and nearly 300 PhD students), delivers more than 700 diplomas each year and produce about 800 paper a year and € 17 million in research contracts.
The engineering school is part of the Grandes Écoles, a prestigious group of French institutions dedicated to engineering, scientific research, and business education. It consists of three campuses and one site: Brest, Nantes, Rennes and Toulouse. IMT Atlantique is a school of the Institut Mines-Telecom and a member of the Université Bretagne Loire.
Academics
IMT Atlantique offers a unique generalist engineering diploma, mainly drawing on students who have appeared for the Concours Commun Mines-Ponts competitive entry exam. Students from Grandes Écoles preparatory classes may apply through the Concours Commun Mines-Ponts competitive entry exam.
It also offers two apprentice engineer training programs in software engineering and computer science, networks and telecommunications in partnership with the regional authorities of Brittany and the Pays de la Loire region.
IMT Atlantique offers 5 programs in Master’s of science, and 8 programs in Specialist Master's and a Doctoral program covering 20 specialities within the five doctoral schools in the Brittany and Pays de la Loire regions, with which it has co-accredition.
Campuses
IMT Atlantique has 3 campuses, in Brest, Nantes and Rennes. The Brest campus is part of the Brest-Iroise technology hub on 24.14 hectares, very proximal to other higher learning institutions, like ENIB and ESIAB. It consists of an incubator and an astronomical observatory, apart from the usual school buildings, sports facilities, dance studio, restaurant and student housing.
The Nantes campus is a 13.15-hectare campus on the Erdre riverbank in the Atlanpole technology hub, on the Chantrerie campus near other higher learning institutions (Oniris, École supérieure du bois, Polytech Nantes, École de design Nantes Atlantique).
The Rennes campus is located in Cesson-Sévigné within Rennes Atalante near the research and development centers of major companies (Orange, Technicolor) and innovative SME/SMIs in fields such as image, networks, connected objects and cyber security (Broadpeak, Enensys, NexGuard, Kerlink) along with the technological research institute, b<>com. Third year options include "Networks", "International Business" and "Business and Banking Finance". The Rennes metro links the campus to the Rennes' town centers from the Atalante station.
Rankings
On the national level, right from its inception, IMT Atlantique has been placed in the A+ group, the Frenchy Top 10, of L'Etudiant's rankings.
On International level, for the first time this year the school entered a thematic ranking, the Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. This thematic ranking list is part of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), known as "Shanghai", which is the most renowned international ranking list. It evaluates the scientific excellence of higher learning institutions and few French engineering schools appear on it. ARWU ranks IMT Atlantique in the 151-200 category of Telecommunication engineering, 201-300 category of Electrical & electronic engineering, 201-300 category of Computer science Engineering.
IMT Atlantique grabbed the top 5% of the Webometrics ranking list, which evaluates an institution's influence through its presence on the Web (visibility, scientific publications, etc.). This ranking is internationally renowned and IMT-Atlantique is currently occupying 1351st place out of 27,000 institutions in the world.
IMT Atlantique holds second place in France, in the area of knowledge transfer, as ranked by U-Multirank, the worldwide ranking list of higher learning institutions established by the European Union. This ranking includes 1497 institutions in 99 nations.
Research and Teaching
IMT Atlantique’ s Research is organized into thirteen departments of teaching and research and is linked to different joint research institutes like GEPEA, IRISA, CNRS, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes, the INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), the INSA of Rennes (French National Institute of Applied Sciences), the University of South Brittany, the University of Rennes-I and the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (CentraleSupélec), Lab-STICC, LaTIM, LS2N and Subatech.
