Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (previously named as Agrocampus Ouest till 2020) is a French higher education institution, known as a

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. 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

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. It belongs to the , with Institut agro Montpellier and Institut Agro Dijon (previously École nationale supérieure de biologie appliquée à la nutrition et à l'Alimentation). It trains agricultural sciences engineers and research scientists. It has two campuses in western France, one in

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

and the other in

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the prov ...

History

Agrocampus Ouest was created in 2008, as the merger of two institutions: *

Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage (INHP) was a French agricultural sciences school of university-level, grande école-type. Its name in English is the 'National Institute for Horticulture and Landscape Management'. It was created in ...

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 (

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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

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s: * 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.

Research programmes

According to its website, 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

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, Agrocampus Ouest is the third French

for agricultural sciences, with ENSA de Toulouse.

History

Education programmes

Research programmes

Rankings

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See also