Agrocampus Ouest

Agrocampus Ouest
Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage

Main building in the campus of Rennes
Type Grande école
Established 2008 (merger of two grandes écoles)
Academic affiliation
CGE, CDEFI, European University of Brittany, Université Nantes Angers Le Mans
President Dominique Chargé
Academic staff
150 teachers including 130 professors/teachers [1]
Administrative staff
322[1]
Students 1,950, including 120 PhD students [2]
Location Campuses in Rennes and Angers, (respectively in Brittany and Pays de la Loire), France
48°06′49″N 1°42′23″W / 48.1135°N 1.7064°W / 48.1135; -1.7064Coordinates: 48°06′49″N 1°42′23″W / 48.1135°N 1.7064°W / 48.1135; -1.7064
Website http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr

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 (in English Higher Institute for agricultural sciences, food industry, horticulture and landscape management). 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,[3] 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 (Msc level), 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 acamedic partnerships across the world.[1]

Research programmes

According to its website,[1] 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, ex-æquo with l'ENSA de Toulouse.[4]

References

See also

List of agricultural universities

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 06, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.