Agronomy | Environment | Food | Management and strategy
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ESA is about much more than just a degree: it’s about openness, commitment and solidarity, enabling us to make a difference in agronomy, food and the environment.
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Summer programme: Value chains of a terroir-driven food system
- Duration : 4 weeks
- Field of Study : Animal Science, Crop production and Agroecology, Environmental Science, Food Science
Bachelor and Master of Science – Agricultural Engineering
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 5 years
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Animal Science, Crop production and Agroecology, Environmental Science, Food Science, Management and strategy, Viticulture and oenology
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Technical Sales
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Management and strategy
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy (Plant Production)
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Crop production and Agroecology
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Horticulture & paysage
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Business Management
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Management and strategy
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and Marketing of Wines and Terroirs
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an, 1 year
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Management and strategy, Viticulture and oenology
Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Production and Livestock Management
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Animal Science
Bachelor’s Degree – Agroecology and Food Systems
- Possible options : Student status
- Duration : 3 years
- Campus : Angers, Angers
- Field of Study : Animal Science, Crop production and Agroecology, Environmental Science, Food Science
Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status
- Duration : 1 an
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Crop production and Agroecology
Higher National Technical Diploma in Livestock Management
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Animal Science
Higher National Technical Diploma in Agronomy and Sustainable Crop Production
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Crop production and Agroecology
Higher Technical Qualification in Agricultural Business, Management and Strategy
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers, Angers
- Field of Study : Animal Science, Crop production and Agroecology, Management and strategy
Higher National Technical Diploma in Landscape Architecture
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Horticulture & paysage
Higher National Technical Diploma in Horticulture
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers, Angers
- Field of Study : Horticulture & paysage
Higher National Technical Diploma in Technical Sales
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 2 ans
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Management and strategy, Viticulture and oenology
MSc AgriFoodChain
- Possible options : Student status
- Duration : 1 an, 2 ans, 2 years, One-year MSc / Two-year MSc
- Campus : Angers, Angers
- Field of Study : Food Science
Master of Science in Vine, Wine and Terroir Management (Vintage)
- Possible options : Student or apprenticeship status, Student status
- Duration : 2 ans, 2 years
- Campus : Angers
- Field of Study : Viticulture and oenology
Study in France : Preparing your stay
Everything is done for you to enjoy student life ‘à la française‘ in Angers. Lecturers, administrative staff and French students will support you in your studies and help in your daily life.
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Coming to study in France at ESA
5 Good reasons to choose ESA
01.
Graduate from a top ranked school
in Agriculture.
02.
Learn
about sustainability and agriculture.
03.
Skills
Be practically and technically skilled.
04.
Be involved
in Agricultural and Food transitions
05.
Internationally recognised degree
Graduate with an internationally recognised degree at undergraduate or graduate level.
Research
Research units
ESA Research helps guide agri-businesses toward sustainable development.
Supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rural Affairs and Spatial Planning and contracted by INRAE, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (USC INRAE-ESA).
Our research unit, created in 2007, works for animal sectors of the Grand Ouest region, whose economic importance is strong at a regional and national levels. URSE is a Esa research unit and also part of INRAE – ACT department (Action, Transitions and Territories) and part of the Pays de la Loire INRAE center, as and USC unit (under contract research unit).
Contracted with INRAE, approved by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAAF) and evaluated by HCERES – Member of the SFR 4207 QUASAV
Our unit is certified by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAAF) and evaluated by HCERES.
Our research deals with biodiversity in areas strongly influenced by human activity. Our pluri-disciplinary team studies the interactions between farming practices, management by other stakeholders and biodiversity, at different spatial and temporal scales. The research is carried out in farming contexts or along rural-urban gradients. The fields of application are agroecology and natural resource preservation.
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research units
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research collaborators and teachers
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research projects
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scientific productions in 2024-2025
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A new specialization for the Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering
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ESA exhibiting at 2024 Paris International Agricultural Show
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ESA Angers ranked 1st among the schools in agriculture in 2024 !
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