The agro institute results from the grouping of several national higher agronomic schools with a historical existence.

[1] In 2018, Montpellier SupAgro and Agrocampus Ouest (Rennes and Angers) announced their desire to regroup.

On January 1, 2020, these two establishments merged to create the National Institute of Higher Education for Agriculture, Food and the Environment.

The Agro Institute is a large higher education establishment on a national scale because the sites are distributed in different locations.

[5] In the field of agricultural sciences, the Agro Institute appears for the first time in the Shanghai ranking in 2020, in 28th place.