Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage | |
| File:Rennes École nationale supérieure agronomique.jpg 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 | , (respectively in Brittany and Pays de la Loire) , Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Website | https://international.institut-agro-rennes-angers.fr/ |
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Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (previously named as Agrocampus Ouest till 2020) 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 (English: Higher Institute for agricultural sciences, food industry, horticulture and landscape management). 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.
History
[edit | edit source]Agrocampus Ouest was created in 2008,[3] as the merger of two institutions:
- Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage in Angers.
- Agrocampus Rennes in Rennes.
Its head office is located in Rennes, and has a second campus in Angers.
Education programmes
[edit | edit source]Agrocampus Ouest mainly trains engineers (Msc level), 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 (VAS: Vie-Agro-Santé)
- Plants, environment, health (VESAM: Végétal, environnement, santé, Anjou-Maine)
- Materials science (SDLM: Sciences de la matière)
- Human sciences, organizations and society (SHOS: Sciences humaines, organisation et société)
- Mathematics, telecommunications, informatics, signal, systems, electronics (Matisse: Mathématiques, télécommunications, informatique, signal, systèmes, électronique)
- Law, economy, management, environment, society and territories (DEGEST: Droit, économie, gestion, environnement, société et territoires)
The institution has 80 academic partnerships across the world.[1]
Research programmes
[edit | edit source]According to its website,[1] Agrocampus Ouest has:
- 14 research units, generally in partnership with the INRA research institute
- 398 associated researchers.
Rankings
[edit | edit source]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.[4]
References
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See also
[edit | edit source]List of agricultural universities
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