AgroParisTech Receives the “Bienvenue en France” (“Welcome to France”) label!

Recognizing that way an institution hosts its international students is key to promoting internationalization and making attractiveness of higher education, it involves in particular:

• Promoting a welcoming culture within institutions;
• Being a trusted source for informing international students on the precise conditions in which they are hosted;
• Attesting to the quality of international orientation and hosting programs;
• Making institutions’ international orientation and hosting programs visible and promoting them;
• The label thus serves as a tool to showcase and promote institutions vis-à-vis an international student population that has become increasingly demanding in terms of the conditions under which they are hosted.

The “Welcome to France” label is awarded by Campus France on the basis of an online self-assessment of candidate institutions and the submission of appropriate supporting documents to substantiate the content of the assessment.

The particularly detailed and demanding self-assessment covers 5 areas, each of which is further broken down into 4 indicators, with particular significance being given to the ones that are part of a “Welcome Package”:

• Quality and accessibility of information;
• Quality and accessibility of student orientation programs;
• Accessibility and support for teaching;
• Accommodation and quality of life on campus;
• Post-graduation support and follow-up.

Campus France’s assessment of the indicators met by the institution and the quality of its responses determines not only whether the label is awarded, but also the level of excellence assessed in accordance with the label’s conditions.