National School of Advanced Techniques

ENSTA Bretagne is a French national graduate engineering institute which offers three year engineering programmes to both civilian and military students. The courses are of high quality and are designed to ensure that students have an excellent level of expertise in their chosen field of Engineering. ENSTA Bretagne graduates are able to design, build and manage complex electronic and mechanical systems.

ENSTA Bretagne was founded in 1971 and is a multidisciplinary engineering institute under the auspices of the French Defence Ministry (DGAC).

The programmes offered at ENSTA Bretagne are wide and varied, encompassing different aspects of science, technology and human resource management. ENSTA Bretagne graduates are therefore sufficiently equipped to choose a career either as a design, research, development or trials

Engineer or alternatively as a Project Manager in many different fields such as electronics, computer sciences, telecommunications, automotive engineering, naval construction, offshore engineering, land-based vehicles, mechanical engineering, structural calculations, energetic materials and underwater detection systems.

Every year approximately 250 newly graduated Engineers enter the workplace and join the 4 000 ENSTA Bretagne Alumni already active in industry. At the beginning of 2017, a survey of the last graduating classes showed that 95% of the graduation class of 2016 were in employment and that 60% of ENSTA Bretagne graduates had found a job before completing their studies.

ENSTA Bretagne is committed to developing a strong international perspective. ENSTA Bretagne’s international strategy is to develop and maintain close ties with international, industrial and academic partners through various initiatives. These initiatives include conventions with foreign universities, involvement in European projects and participation in student exchange programmes.

Furthermore, ENSTA Bretagne academic programmes provide ample opportunity for students to learn more about other countries and cultures. Students are given the option of studying several foreign languages. It is also common for them to do their work placements abroad.

ENSTA Bretagne is located in Brest a city that lies on the western-most tip of France. Brest is the European capital of marine and oceanographic research. It is also home to the Brest Iroise Technopole ( Brest Technology Cluster). This cluster brings together companies and institutions involved in activities relating to the sector of electronics, IT and telecommunications. The synergy created by complementary firms and institutions working together produces greater efficiency, potential and progress in research activities. ENSTA Bretagne has close links with this cluster and is currently involved in a number of projects.

Welcome to the Internet site of ENSTA Bretagne, a French Engineering Institute and Research Centre. By choosing to study at ENSTA Bretagne you choose to embrace the spirit of openness and adventure. You also choose competence, performance and a desire to innovate in an environment geared towards enterprise and research with an international context. Whether it is in the naval, automobile, electronic, computer or real time technologies sector, studying at ENSTA Bretagne will provide you with the opportunity to develop both your technical expertise and personal skills.

The engineering programmes offered by ENSTA Bretagne are accredited by ‘La Commission des Titres d’Ingénieurs et la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles’*. It is also important to mention that our institute is at the heart of numerous industrial and academic networks which enables ENSTA Bretagne graduates to join leading companies and research centres around the world.
The engineering programmes highlighted and presented on this site are for the most part taught in English. If you’d like further information, please feel free to contact us. Enjoy your visit and I hope to see you soon at ENSTA Bretagne.

ENSTA Bretagne prides itself in setting and maintaining extremely high standards. It is therefore essential that the school is run in a professional, highly-organised and business-like manner. In an effort to increase its performance, ENSTA Bretagne sought and successfully gained ISO 9001:2008 standard accreditation for all its principal activities.

The French education system has a wide range of vocational, technical, competitive or selective courses and there are many ways of gaining admission to a graduate Engineering school. The vast majority of the students (cycle d'ingénieur), both civilian and military, are selected on the basis of a competitive exam, the "concours". You can find further information on the programme that prepares students for this exam, see the following wiki : Classe_préparatoire_aux_grandes_écoles.

We also have some students who come from the University system. These students are called “auditeurs libres”. They are chosen through a recruitment process, based on interviews and the submission of a file.

The final category of student is FIPA (Formation d’Ingénieur par Alternance). These are students that enter ENSTA Bretagne with a 2-year diploma from a technical college. Just like the “auditeurs libres”, they are recruited through an interview-based process.

In 1990, ENSTA Bretagne opened its doors to civilian students. Since then, the percentage of civilians has gradually increased over the years to such an extent that they now make up 80% of the students. Over the same period, the school also developed its R&D activity hiring its first research-fellow in 1992.

Today, 200 students graduate every year from ENSTA Bretagne. They join other ENSTA Bretagne trained Engineers already employed by major French and international companies active in various industries around the world.

ENSTA Bretagne has also established itself in the field of research with its laboratories gaining wide recognition for their accomplishments. These laboratories are currently running several reseach progammes with their international partners.