ISARA is a private (EESPIG label) engineering school specializing in agriculture, agrifood, and environmental science, with a strong focus on agroecology and sustainable food systems.
Address: 23 rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Agricultural Engineering & Agroecology, Food Science & Management, Environmental Science & Rural Development
Domains taught:
- Agriculture, AI and Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Engineering, Food Science, Life Sciences, Logistics, Manufacturing, Mathematics, Microbiology and Genetics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Statistics, Thermodynamics
Diplomas*:
- Doctor, Master
Status:
- Private
Partnerships:
Member of FESIA (France Agro³). Numerous international partnerships and collaborations with agrifood companies and research institutes.
Research:
Agroecology and sustainable farming, Food innovation and entrepreneurship, Environmental management and territorial development, International agribusiness.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
200
Current students***:
1000
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
8000
Pros
Strong focus on agroecology and sustainable food systems, international dimension, good industry connections in the agrifood sector.
Cons
Private institution with tuition fees, specialized in agriculture and food.
Best For
Engineering school specializing in agriculture, food science, and environmental management, with a focus on agroecology.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- Anyone who wants a second school in the same country with a similar spread of logistics, agriculture and food science can consider Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture de Lille - JUNIA, and it is larger, enrolling about 1,500 students against roughly 1,000 here, and is also a private institution.
- Institut Agro Dijon shares the core fields of this institution, namely logistics, agriculture and food science; it covers fluid dynamics and software engineering as well, and has almost the same size, at about 1,000 students.
- École d'Ingénieurs de Purpan follows much the same lines as this school, with logistics, agriculture and food science as common ground, and it is slightly larger, at about 1,200 students against roughly 1,000 here, and is also a private institution.
- ISTOM offers a comparable education in logistics, agriculture and food science: it is smaller, enrolling about 500 students against roughly 1,000 here, and is also a private institution.
- Anyone who wants a second school in the same country with a similar spread of logistics, agriculture and food science can consider Bordeaux Sciences Agro, and it runs the same master's and doctoral programmes and covers fluid dynamics and materials as well.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Kumamoto Prefectural University (Japan) works on the same fields as this institution, chiefly agriculture, food science and quality; it covers materials and software engineering as well, and is larger, enrolling about 1,500 students against roughly 1,000 here.
- Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche brings a Italy setting to the same core fields, agriculture, food science and quality, and it is smaller, enrolling about 500 students against roughly 1,000 here, and is also a private institution.
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the United States, takes a similar route through bioinformatics, microbiology and genetics and bioengineering; it also offers graduate certificate programmes, and is slightly larger, at about 1,261 students against roughly 1,000 here.
- Looking internationally, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States is where bioinformatics, microbiology and genetics and life sciences get a comparable treatment; it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely master's and doctoral.
- For a study option in Switzerland with a comparable spread of agriculture, food science and quality, Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau is the reference point: it is far smaller, with about 50 students against roughly 1,000 here, and is also a private institution.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Agriculture, Food, Food Safety, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Practices, Sustainable Product Design
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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