Université de Bretagne Occidentale

The University of Western Brittany - Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) is a multidisciplinary university, attuned to the social, economic, political, cultural or environmental changes of our societies and the associated challenges. With a strong local foothold and network, its focus is naturally turned towards the sea (we are ranked 12th in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities for the oceanography category) but its national and international influence also reaps the benefit from, in particular, its strengths in both the information and technology sciences and the human and social sciences.

As a multidisciplinary university, it has an ambitious research and training policy with 32 research units, 11 doctoral schools, 27 bachelor degrees and 100+ master’s degrees and engineering degrees.

With long-standing experience in continuing vocational training, it offers numerous placement-study programmes, mainly through apprenticeships. As an innovative university, it supports local economic development through the inventiveness of its researchers and the creativity of its graduates. Open-minded and outward looking, UBO enhances and structures its positioning, both through its research-led activities and its quality in teaching, and through its numerous partnerships with universities around the world, notably China, Canada, Australia, South Africa and, of course, all of the EU countries. In this respect, pursuing the development of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU), with the universities of Cadiz (Spain), Kiel (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Split (Croatia) and Malta will be one of UBO’s central activities in the coming year.

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