AgroParisTech

Who can apply

International students can apply to the engineering, master's, doctoral and continuing-education programmes from M1 level (fourth year of higher education). Application procedures for master's, doctoral and continuing-education programmes (including Specialised Master's degrees) are the same regardless of nationality and are set out on each programme page.

Engineering programme

First-year admission is by a competitive entrance exam open only to students already enrolled in higher education in France. International students enter directly in the second year through the concours D.E., open to those who have completed or are completing a science degree at M1 level, or foreign qualifications accepted by the jury; it is for non-French students and those who studied abroad and have not applied through other routes. Routes are the AgreenMob programme (students preselected by partner Senegalese institutions, applying through the Agreenium procedure), double-degree programmes (nominated students only) and free movers. Deadlines are 15 October (first session) and 1 March (second session). Candidates register on the incoming application platform, submit the online form and documents, then attend an online oral interview. The admission jury meets in November and March.

Documents: application form, ID, motivation letter, CV, all transcripts since the start of higher education translated into French or English, copies of degrees, proof of French and English proficiency (French B1 minimum, B2 strongly recommended; native speakers exempt) and a sworn statement certifying the authenticity of the documents.

Exchange students

Students nominated by a partner institution may study for a semester or year in the second or third year of the engineering programme or in a master's. Deadlines are 15 April (autumn semester and full year) and 15 October (spring semester). French-taught programmes require B1 and English-taught programmes B2 (DELF, TOEIC, TOEFL or Cambridge accepted). Required: signed nomination letter, ID, photo, CV, cover letter, transcripts for the last two semesters, learning agreement and proof of health insurance.

Doctoral admission

Applicants hold a master's or equivalent degree. Minimum conditions are support from a thesis supervisor and research unit, a defined thesis subject and sufficient funding for the whole thesis. AgroParisTech works with three doctoral schools (ABIES, GAIA and SIR eNa); enrolment is online through the ADUM platform, and some schools require a preliminary interview. Joint supervision (cotutelle) with a foreign institution is possible.

Practical steps

International students are directed to Campus France for administrative formalities.

• Agro Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (22 place de l'Agronomie, 91120 Palaiseau): headquarters, eight buildings of about 710,000 sq. ft. around a five-acre wooded park; one third research laboratories (greenhouses, growth chambers, technology hall, food area), one third teaching (two lecture halls of 400 seats, four of 150), with common spaces for student activities. Houses about 2,000 students and 1,350 AgroParisTech and INRAE staff, and nine INRAE research units.
• Nancy (14 rue Girardet): former Forestry School site (founded 1824), AgroParisTech campus since 2007. Forestry curricula of the engineering programme (Forest Management, Forest Resources and the Lumber Industry, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Urban Forestry), the Forestry Sciences and Engineering diploma, and master's programmes with the University of Lorraine.
• Montpellier (648 rue Jean-François Breton): within Agropolis International; master's degrees in Water and Agriculture, Water and Society, Geomatics, GEEFT and BIOGET, the SUTROFOR Erasmus Mundus degree and several Specialised Master's degrees. Documentation centre and student cafeteria.
• Kourou, French Guiana (Campus Agronomique, Avenue de France): hosts the EcoFoG joint research unit and a second-year Master's in Tropical Forest Ecology shared with the University of Guyana and the University of the French Antilles.
• Orléans (10 rue Léonard de Vinci, Orléans La Source): third-year engineering major in Sustainable Cosmetics (Cosm'Ethique) and the Cosmetology Research Chair.
• Reims area (Pomacle) (Centre Européen de Biotechnologie et de Bioéconomie, 3 rue des Rouges Terres): Industrial Agro-Biotechnologies R&D Unit, established in 2012, with biotechnology, green chemistry and process engineering divisions and fermentation, extraction, membrane and chromatography pilots.
• Grignon Experimental Farm (Thiverval-Grignon): 400 hectares of crops and livestock farm (200 Prim'Holstein dairy cows, 600 sheep), Farm'InnLab, the Trajectoire cropping-systems platform, a methane recovery system and a public farm shop.