' (; "National Veterinary School of Toulouse") is a

veterinary school Veterinary education is the tertiary education of veterinarians. To become a veterinarian, one must first complete a degree in veterinary medicine Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM, V.M.D., BVS, BVSc, BVMS, BVM etc.). In the United States and C ...

located in

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

, France. Established in 1825, it is also an institution of higher education and research and a teaching hospital.

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Opened in 1828, the ENVT is the oldest ''Grande École'' in Toulouse, and the school has trained more than a quarter of all veterinarians in France – over 15,000 graduates. As a ''Grande École'', ENVT a French institution of

higher education Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools ...

that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the

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in the United States,

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in the UK, and

C9 League The C9 League is an inter-university seminar composed of nine public universities in China. It was established on May 4, 1998, at the 100th anniversary of Peking University. These elite universities are associated with academic excellence and ...

in China, ''Grandes Écoles'' are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process. ''Grandes Écoles'' typically they have much smaller class sizes and student bodies than public universities in France, and many of their programs are taught in English. International internships, study abroad opportunities, and close ties with government and the corporate world are a hallmark of the ''Grandes Écoles''. Degrees from ''ENVT'' are accredited by the ''Conférence des Grandes Écoles'' and awarded by the

Ministry of National Education (France) The Ministry of National Education and Youth, or simply Ministry of National Education, as the title has changed several times in the course of the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, is the cabinet member in the Government of France who ove ...

(). ENVT is also founding member of the

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (, , UFTMP) is the association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE) for institutions of higher education and research in the French region of Midi-Pyrénées (now called Occitania ...

(), the association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE), which is reconstituting the collective Université de Toulouse. As a full-fledged member, EMVT coordinates the training offers and the research and transfer strategies of 31 public university and research establishments within the Occitanie region, has its own budgetary allocation, and can issue diplomas. Among others, this membership includes all large campuses in Toulouse: Capitole University,

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; ), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibi ...

Paul Sabatier University Paul Sabatier University (''Université Paul Sabatier'' , UPS, also known as Toulouse III) was a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse. It was one of the several successor universities of the University of Toulouse, established in 1229, m ...

, Sciences Po Toulouse, INSA Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO, as well as the 7 grandes écoles of the

National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (, ; abbr. Toulouse INP) is a French university cluster based in Toulouse, France, part of the University of Toulouse. It was founded in 1969. The institute is composed of seven schools (six engineering ...

. As a collective higher education structure, it is the fourth largest in France with over 130,000 students, faculty, and staff.

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