AgroParisTech (officially ''Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement'', or Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences)English naming according t
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is a French higher education institution, known as a ''

grande école A ''grande école'' () is a specialised university that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. The grandes écoles offer teaching, research and professional training in s ...

''. It is a constituent member of the

Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University (french: Université Paris-Saclay) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 prestigious universities that emerged from the division of the University of Paris, also known as the Sorbonne ...

. It was founded on January 1, 2007, by the merger of three life sciences

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( INA P-G,

ENGREF The National School of Rural Engineering, Water Resources and Forestry (''École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts'', or ENGREF), was a department of Agro ParisTech for foresters and students of the Corps of Bridges, Waters and ...

and ENSIA). Leader in life sciences and agronomy, AgroParisTech is one of the foremost and most prestigious

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. AgroParisTech is one of the founding members of the Université Paris-Saclay, which will be the largest European multidisciplinary campus. AgroParisTech will consequently be moving to the

Paris-Saclay Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions (''grandes écoles'') and ...

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Having a business name does not separ ...

and research-intensive cluster in 2021. AgroParisTech is a part of the

and a member of the Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech). The latter is a consortium of ten graduate institutes of science and engineering. AgroParisTech is also part of 'The Life and Environmental Science and Technology Hub' of the

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

region, together with INRAE,

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, AFSSA,

École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort The National veterinary school of Alfort ( or ''ENVA'') is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It is operated under the superv ...

and the

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History

AgroParisTech is the merger of three graduate institutes of science and engineering located around

: * ''

Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon The Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) was a French university-level institution of grande école-type. It offered master's degree in agricultural- and life sciences. It was created in 1971 by merging the ''Institut national agr ...

'' (INA P-G), founded in 1826 * ''École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts'' (ENGREF), founded in 1964 * '' École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires'' (ENSIA), founded in 1893. The public higher education system in France includes universities and other institutions called the

. The grandes écoles are the best rated pathways for higher education in Engineering and Management. The vast majority of the chief executives in major French companies and of top managers in the French Administration are graduates from the grandes écoles. The features are: * A very selective admission process through which students are either admitted by a nationwide entrance exam (notably after two or three years of prépas) or by the virtue of excellent academic records * 5 years (Master’s degrees) to 8 years (PhD and post-Master’s degrees) of higher education * The degree course at the grandes écoles includes compulsory internships in laboratories and companies, in France or abroad * The prestige of the grandes écoles and contacts with major enterprises provide an easy access to the job market The university includes a museum, which has objects on loan from institutions in

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, such as

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, including a coca cola bottle dating to 1942.

Organization

AgroParisTech is organized into five departments: * Agronomy, Forestry, Water and Environmental Science and Technology, * Life Science and Health, * Science and Engineering for Food and Bioproducts, * Social science, Economics and Management, * Modeling: Mathematics, Informatics and Physics

Academic programs

AgroParisTech offers different Masters: * 3 different Masters of Engineering (MEng): **

Agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

** Food Science and Engineering ** Forestry * 2 Masters of Science (MSc) * 1 Master's program with 5 domains that cover most fields of Life Science and Technology * one of 7 partner universities in the Master of Science in European Forestry program It also offers: * a wide range of Ph.D. programs. * 1 Post-Master's degree for Management and Administration in environmental sciences and policies, proposed by

, a post-graduate institute of AgroParisTech. * 9 Post-master professional certificates (one-year post graduate training)

Research programmes

AgroParisTech has: * 39 research laboratories, * 300 researchers

References

External links

Official website

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