Université Bretagne Loire

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Evaluations of higher education institutions
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Review of disciplinary ‘fields’
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Evaluation of sites using a ‘top-down approach’
    newly introduced in 2017.
  • Evaluation of doctoral schools
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in France

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, University of Nantes
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, University of Western Brittany
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, Le Mans University
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, École normale supérieure de Rennes
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, Institut d'études politiques de Rennes
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, École supérieure d'agriculture d'Angers

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle de l'Université d'Angers (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle de l'Université de Bretagne Occidentale - UBO (first cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle de l'Université de Nantes (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle de l'Université de Rennes 1 (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle de l'Université Rennes 2 (first cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
1er cycle Le Mans Université (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle d'Agrocampus Ouest - Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Centrale Nantes) (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées Bretagne (Ensta Bretagne) (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Ecole normale supérieure de Rennes - ENS Rennes (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes - INSA Rennes (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) - U Brest (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Université de Nantes (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle de l'Université Rennes 1 (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
2ème cycle Le Mans Université (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system
3MPL - Matière, molécules, matériaux en Pays de la Loire (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Arts, lettres, langues (third cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Bachelor en Sciences et Ingénierie, spécialité Agroécologie et Systèmes Alimentaires (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Bachelor en Sciences et Ingénierie spécialité Ingénierie généraliste sur le site de Nantes (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Biologie Santé (BS) (third cycle degree)

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.