An elite technological university of engineering and a research center

IMT Atlantique is one of the top 10 engineering schools in France, and one of the top 500 universities in the world in THE World University Ranking. It is a general engineering grande école financed by the Ministry of Industry and Digital Communication, and the first Institut Mines Télécom “Mines-Telecom” Technological university, founded on January 1st, 2017 from the merger of Mines Nantes and Télécom Bretagne. 

From fundamental to applied research, over the wide-ranging fields of digital sciences, engineering sciences, physics and management and work at the crossroads of these disciplines, IMT Atlantique responds to the major challenges that companies and society are facing today.

The institution maintains and develops partnerships with companies, and the valorization of research is one of its primary missions. Collaborations initiated around research projects frequently evolve into permanent framework agreements or joint research structures, combining public and private resources and objectives.

IMT Atlantique is:

  • a Higher Education Institution with first-rate research potential, internationally recognized for its research (ranked 124th worldwide in THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings )
  • a resolutely multi-site institution reflecting the world in which we live.
  • an institution with a strong local presence, and a commitment to contributing to local developmentan institution which is aware of its environmental and societal responsibility. In 2019 it was awarded the sustainable development & social responsibility accreditation.
  • and finally, an institution that trains executives capable of understanding and mastering the complexity of the highly interconnected systems of the future, by combining their knowledge of the systems with that of the networks that link them.

Nantes Campus

Rennes Campus

Brest Campus

IMT Atlantique