BUT (Bachelor of Technology)

IUTs offer the Bachelor Universitaire de Technologie (BUT), a three-year national degree program leading to a bachelor’s degree. This integrated, career-oriented program allows students to gradually develop their skills while shaping their career plans, whether for immediate entry into the workforce or for further study in a master’s program or at an engineering school. The program’s structure allows students to pursue an apprenticeship in their second or third year. Aligned with international standards, the BUT also BUT mobility and exchanges with foreign universities.

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Enhanced strengths:

  • a university-level and technology-focused education led by experienced interdisciplinary faculty teams,
  • workplace placements (periods spent in a company as part of an internship or a work-study program).

New opportunities for:

The students:

  • earn a bachelor's degree at the national and international levels,
  • benefit from a competency-based teaching approach and a learning pace better suited to the diversity of the students enrolled,
  • participate in an international exchange program,
  • have access to pathways throughout the program,
  • gradually develop the Professional and Personal Development Plan (PPP),
  • strengthen ties with the local community,
  • have broader opportunities for further education and career advancement.

Employers:

  • offer a broader and more flexible range of work-study programs (with three possible contract lengths),
  • help develop training standards,
  • produce graduates who are more self-reliant and better equipped to adapt throughout their professional careers,
  • acquire broader skills that are better suited to the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Universities:

  • strengthen the technological and career-oriented aspects of the university's programs,
  • improve bachelor's degree completion rates,
  • improve employment prospects (in the short and medium term),
  • position itself relative to competing bachelor’s degree programs,
  • provide pathways to employment,
  • promote lifelong learning.
Published on October 13, 2020
Updated on November 18, 2025