Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage (INHP) was a French agricultural sciences school of university-level,

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 ...

-type. Its name in

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is the 'National Institute for Horticulture and Landscape Management'. It was created in 1997 as the merger of: * École nationale supérieure d'horticulture, located in

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

. * École nationale d'ingénieurs des travaux de l'horticulture et du paysage, located 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 ...

. It delivered bachelor's degree and master's degree in agricultural sciences. It was well known in France for its horticulture training, as being the only French ''grande école'' specializing in horticultural engineering. In 2008, the Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage merged with

École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes The Agrocampus Rennes (in French called in full ''École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes'', meaning "Higher Institution for agricultural sciences of Rennes") was a French grande école created in 1849, training students mostly in the a ...

to form

Agrocampus Ouest 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 ...

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{{Authority control Grandes écoles Engineering universities and colleges in France Agronomy schools Educational institutions established in 1997 Educational institutions disestablished in 2008 1997 establishments in France