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; 48.1135°N 1.7064°W
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:

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

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

According to its website,[1] Agrocampus Ouest has:

14 research units, generally in partnership with the INRA research institute
398 associated researchers.

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]

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References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-14. Retrieved 2015-06-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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Décret no. 2008-616 du 27 juin 2008 portant création de l’Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage (Agro campus Ouest) sur Légifrance.
http://www.letudiant.fr/palmares/classement-ecole-ingenieur-apres-prepa/secteur-agriculture-sylviculture-peche.html