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Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (previously named as Agrocampus Ouest till 2020) 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 ...
. 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 Ministry of Agriculture (France), Ministry of Agriculture. 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 and the other in Angers.
History
Agrocampus Ouest was created in 2008, as the merger of two institutions: * Institut National d'Horticulture et de Paysage in Angers. * École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes, 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 (Mastère en sciences, 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.Research programmes
According to its website, Agrocampus Ouest has: * 14 research units, generally in partnership with the Institut national de la recherche agronomique, 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 Frenchgrande 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 ...
for agricultural sciences, with École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse, ENSA de Toulouse.
References
See also
List of agricultural universities and colleges, List of agricultural universities {{Authority control Grandes écoles Engineering universities and colleges in France Agronomy schools