considered to be among the best in europe the groupment desecoles telecommunications get is an umbrella organisation regrouping seven stateoftheart engineering institutes of france education times speaks to beverley delsinnegee gets international office director about the group of schools and what they can offer to the indian students what are the salient features of get get is a premier group of engineering schools in europe and is recognised by the industry across globe the group of these french schools is similar to the indian institutes of technology iits and indian institutes of management iims in terms of their repute and standing akin to iits and iims get is recognised and funded by the government the institutes offer twoyear m sc programmes summer internships and ph d programmes for local and international students the four to five months internship forms an integral part of the degree and unlike in india they are usually remunerated a student gets about 1000 euros per month during the internship and on completion of a masters level course our students start with a minimum salary package of 32000 euros per annum can you name the schools that come under the umbrella of get get comprises seven schools namely ecole national supirieure de telecommunications paris ecole nationale supirieure de bretagne having two campuses in brest and rennes institut national de telecommunications int evry which has two schools int management and institut national de telecommunication management int telecom telecom lille 1 and institut eurocom these institutes offer double degree programmes with several european and international partners the institutes research partners and collaborations count the elite organisations such as the centre national de la recherche scientifique cnrs french national institute of health and medical research inserm national institute of research in computer science and automatics inria the french institute of advanced research in marine exploitation ifremer and several defence and armament laboratories of france are you interested in recruiting indian students get promotes exchanges and partnerships with universities throughout the world our interest in indian students is a reflection of our continuous endeavour to internationalise get we require quality students for our quality institutes this is why we regularly visit premier indian institutes to recruit indian students this time we visited iit roorkee bits pilani delhi college of engineering and iim lucknow what are your longterm goals we want to establish longterm relations with india through exchange of programmes students and teachers we want to carry out joint projects and researches as well this time we have been promised support by indian government to start two joint masters programmes in information and communication technology and management of technologies students here will be doing their first year in india and final year in france which of the programmes are on offer for indian students the group of schools offers a wide range of programmes in english as well as those with linguistic adaptation to enumerate some there exists masters degree programmes in computer