Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes

The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃stity nɑsjɔnal de sjɑ̃s(z‿)aplike də ʁɛn]; "Rennes National Institute for Applied Sciences") or INSA Rennes is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research.

It is located on the Beaulieu campus in the east of Rennes, it is a part of the INSA group, which trains nearly 12% of all French engineers each year. Founded in 1966 to train highly qualified engineers, support continuing education, and conduct research and testing, it is the biggest engineering school in the region of Brittany. The five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and engineering. The school accommodates 1,400 students in engineering.

The 5-year education is divided into two parts:

• the first cycle, a highly selective part of the studies which aims at giving the basis for future engineering studies that takes 2 years
• the second cycle, where the students have 7 specialties to choose from and will study their choice of specialty for 3 more years