École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes

The city of Rennes holds a strategic position owing to its central location within the foremost agricultural and food basin in Europe.

The public higher education system in France includes universities and other institutions called grandes écoles, with a selective admission process through which students are admitted by a nationwide entrance exam (notably after two or three years of prépas).

Graduates from the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes (ENSAR) are well-equipped in problem-solving capabilities, interdisciplinary research, and methods for applying science to real-world problems and issues.

It prepares the next generation of leaders to address the world's critical challenges related to agriculture, food systems, natural resources, as well as to building and maintaining sustainable territories and communities.

Having become professor of the chair of botany and forestry, he returned to the national agricultural school of Grandjouan in 1870, where he was also president of the Friendly Association of Former Students created in 1863.