Institut Agro Rennes-Angers


Institut Agro Rennes-Angers is a French higher education institution, known as a grande école. 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 belongs to the Institut Agro, along with Institut agro Montpellier and Institut Agro Dijon.
It trains agricultural sciences engineers and research scientists. It has two campuses in western France, one in Rennes and the other in Angers.
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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:
  • agricultural sciences engineer
  • horticulture sciences engineer
  • landscape sciences engineer
  • food industry sciences engineer
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:
  • Life-Agro-Health
  • Plants, environment, health
  • Materials science
  • Human sciences, organizations and society
  • Mathematics, telecommunications, informatics, signal, systems, electronics
  • Law, economy, management, environment, society and territories
The institution has 80 academic partnerships across the world.

Research programmes

According to its website, Agrocampus Ouest has:

Rankings

According to the 2011 ranking published by the L'Etudiant and L'Expansion, Agrocampus Ouest is the third French grande école for agricultural sciences, with ENSA de Toulouse.