According to academic ranking of world universities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Rennes I University ranks among the top French public universities 10, ranking 300 in the world (roughly on the same level as Beijing Normal University and Xi Jiaotong University). Among them, mathematics, economics and chemical engineering of Rennes I University are the dominant majors.

But this is only in public universities, and the best in France are big schools, that is, engineering schools and high schools.

Generally speaking, it is not bad, but it is cost-effective.