In its annual ranking of engineering schools, “Industrie et Technologies” has placed Telecom Bretagne in 19th place, just after École des Ponts ParisTech. In the startups section, Telecom Bretagne came in fourth with 45 start-ups created since 2007.

To evaluate the research capacity of engineering schools, three criteria were measured:
- the turnover generated by research contracts signed in 2011;
- the number of patents filed by the school or one of its researchers since 2007;
- the amount of doctoral and post-doctoral students working in the laboratories of the establishment.