Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (GxABT), located in

Gembloux Gembloux (; wa, Djiblou; nl, Gembloers, ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 21,964 inhabitants. The total area is 95.86 km², yielding a population dens ...

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, is one of the eleven faculties of the

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. Founded in 1860 and previously known as the Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de Gembloux (FUSAGx,

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for: Gembloux Agronomical University), it is Belgium's oldest educational and research institution dedicated to agronomic sciences and

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. It is the only school in Belgium to be accredited by the French

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allowing the university to deliver the

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degree. The school is also accredited by the

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, the highest European quality label for

degree programmes at Bachelor and Master level. Prior to 2009, it was an independent

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of the

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History

The university is housed in the historical

Abbey of Gembloux Gembloux Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Wallonia near the town of Gembloux in the province of Namur, Belgium. Since 1860, its buildings host the University of Liège's Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty and campus (previously known as Agronomical Un ...

, which was founded around 940. After the

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, monks were expelled, and the abbey was sold. In July 1860, the agronomic school of

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is transferred in

, founding the Gembloux Agricultural Institute. The Belgian State definitely buys the abbey in 1881 and in 1920, the school is renamed into the State Agricultural Institute (''Institut agronomique de l'État''). The name is changed again in 1965 into the State University of Agricultural Sciences (''Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de l’État'') and again in 1994 into the Gembloux University of Agricultural Sciences (''Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de Gembloux'') after its administration was transferred from the

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to the

. In 2009, it was merged with the

and renamed to Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (GxABT). Its official language has always been

Studies

At the cutting edge of sustainable development and eco-innovation, the Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is dedicated exclusively to agronomic sciences and biological

. The five-year program on offer at the Faculty trains bioengineers in the making. Students can choose a specialization from among four different courses of study in the field of life sciences: *Environmental science and technology *Forest and natural space management *Agronomic science *Chemistry and bioindustries Gembloux Agro Bio Tech also organizes the first year of the bachelor's program in

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, in partnership with the

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and the Institute of Architecture of

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