The different schools for higher education in agriculture which are under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and fishery, are gathered all over the French territory. The mission of those schools is to train scientific and technical executives in the different sectors of agronomy and the agro-food industry. The courses are closely related to the economic world. Students get to know the professional realities through practical periods in France and abroad seminars that they organize themselves.
Students can go on studying in specializes schools for two extra years if they wish.
The food engineers are executives in the agro-food industry, either in the sector of marketing or the sector of food quality and research. The forestry engineers have production management, protection, analysis and expertise tasks in the sectors of forestry and wood products. The engineers for rural equipment are specialists of hydrology, water treatment, hydro-ecology and water distribution. The engineers specialized in warm areas are either engineers in agronomy, or works engineers or agro-food industry engineers. They are severely selected after one year of prep-school and the training lasts over 5 years.