Founded in 1962, it trains 600 students every year who follow Agronomy degree courses in their initial education as students or apprentices, or one of the six Master’s degrees co-accredited by universities in Bordeaux or by national partners, and in the specialised Master’s degree accredited by the ‘Conférence des Grandes Écoles’.
Key dates
1962
The Founding of the School
The establishment was created under the name of “Enita de Bordeaux”. It was a higher education establishment offering intermediary 3-year Agronomy degrees after a specific preparatory course dispensed in agricultural secondary schools. It did not have a research vocation.
1999
Purchase of the Château Luchey-Halde Wine Estate
Château Luchey-Halde has been owned by Bordeaux Sciences Agro, the École nationale supérieure des sciences agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, since 1999. This is a plus for the estate, which benefits from being in the school’s cutting-edge scientific environment. Inversely, Château Luchey-Halde is a complementary source of professionalism in the teaching of wine growing and wine making for agronomical engineering and Master’s degree students. In particular, Bordeaux Sciences Agro aims to make this urban vineyard into a showcase for best practices in economically efficient and environmentally friendly wine growing. The entire Bordeaux Sciences Agro scientific community contributes to the ‘Luchey Agro-ecological Project’.
2012
A new name: Bordeaux Sciences Agro!
Fifty years after it was founded, Enita de Bordeaux changed its name to become ‘Bordeaux Sciences Agro’. The official name of the school is now the ‘École nationale supérieure des sciences agronomiques de Bordeaux Aquitaine’ (decree no. 2011-1706 of 30 November 2011). The institute is commonly known by its brand name of ‘Bordeaux Sciences Agro’. This name change was part of a progressive coming together of national engineering trades schools (ENITs) and the former national higher schools of agronomy (ENSAs). The separation between these two groups of schools had progressively been narrowing since the 1990s with the creation of a common competitive exam for schools of agronomy and the creation of a single body of professors and researchers. A new position, new impetus and new brand name!
2014
Opening of international courses with the MBS Vineyard and Winery Management
The schools of engineering’s international masters degree is taught entirely in English, and is a response to Bordeaux Sciences Agro’s strategic decision to increase its international appeal in one of the fields of excellence for which the Bordeaux site is a global reference. This MBS aims to offer original courses in response to demand from the wine sector for wine estate managers abroad, against a backdrop of the strong global growth of the sector with the arrival on the wine market of new countries with very high potential in production, consumption and investment (China, India, Russia, etc.).
2015
Creation of the Agreaux Research and Training Forest
The plans to create the ‘school forest’ on the Agreaux estate are being conducted jointly by the Jacques and Françoise Lescouzères Foundation, under the aegis of the Institut de France, and by Bordeaux Sciences Agro in partnership with the members of the Training Platform.
This concept corresponds to a model that is currently on the rise internationally. It consists of providing teaching and research projects in real-life conditions on a forest estate.
2015
Opening of the Vitimanager specialization, 100% English
Creation of the ‘Vitimanager specialization’ of the agronomist engineer degree, 100% taught in English
2016
Agro-ecology international module
Creation of the training module on agro-ecology, structured around presentations by teachers from Argentinean, Brazilian and Madagascan institution partners
2018
New: Bachelor Viticulture and Enology
Creation of the Viticulture and Enology Bachelor’s degree, a one-year program that aims to teach technical knowledge as well as professional practices, and offers wide perspective in viticulture and enology, with particular focus on sensory analysis
2019
Global Quality in European Livestock Production Master’s degree
The GloQual Master’s degree aims to train specialists in multi-criteria evaluation methods for the overall quality of animal production systems. It is designed to meet the challenges of sustainable livestock farming, rooted in the local environment and providing healthy, high-quality products and crucial environmental and social services.
2021
Together around entrepreneurship through Africa
Creation of a ‘business chair‘ in agricultural entrepreneurship, with two higher education and research establishments in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, and a partner in Madagascar