AgroParisTech (officially French: Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement, or Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences) was founded on January 1, 2007, by the merger of three graduate institutes of science and engineering:

AgroParisTech is a member of the UniverSud Paris and the Paris Institute of Technology (or Paris Tech). The latter is a consortium of ten graduate institutes of science and engineering.

AgroParisTech is also part of 'The Life and Environmental Science and Technology Hub' of the Paris region, together with INRA, Cemagref, AFSSA, the Alfort National Veterinary School, and the Versailles National School of Landscape architecture.^{[citation needed]}

AgroParisTech is organized into five departments

Agronomy, Forestry, Water and Environmental Science and Technology, Life Science and Health, Science and Engineering for Food and Bioproducts, Social science, Economics and Management, Modeling: Mathematics, Informatics and Physics