Agrocampus Ouest


Agrocampus Ouest is a French higher education institution of university-level, grande école-type. Its official name is Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage. It operates under the supervision of the French Ministry of Agriculture.
It trains agricultural sciences engineers and research scientists. It has two campuses in western France, one in Rennes and the other in Angers.

History

Agrocampus Ouest was created in 2008, as the merger of two institutions:
Its head office is located in Rennes, and has a second campus in Angers.

Education programmes

Agrocampus Ouest mainly trains engineers, 4 specializations being available:
Depending on the chosen specialization, trainings are held in one or the other campus. Agrocampus Ouest also offers 16 Master's degrees and 9 Bachelor's degrees in life sciences.
Moreover, Agrocampus Ouest has 6 doctoral schools:
The institution has 80 academic partnerships across the world.

Research programmes

According to its website, Agrocampus Ouest has:
According to the 2011 ranking published by the L'Etudiant and L'Expansion, Agrocampus Ouest is the third French grande école for agricultural sciences, ex-æquo with l'ENSA de Toulouse.