ETSI Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas - ETSIAAB

What ETSI Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas - ETSIAAB does

ETSIAAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas) is a public university school within the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain's top technical university, located at Ciudad Universitaria in Madrid. Founded in 1855, the school delivers higher-education and research programs across agronomy, food science, agroenvironmental engineering, agricultural sciences and bioeconomy, and biotechnology. Its academic portfolio comprises five undergraduate degree programs (Grado en Biotecnología, Grado en Ciencias Agrarias y Bioeconomía, Grado en Ingeniería Agrícola, Grado en Ingeniería Agroambiental, and Grado en Ingeniería Alimentaria) and master's programs including the 120-ECTS habilitante Master's in Agricultural Engineering (75 seats per cohort) and the joint UPM-UCM Master's in Strategies and Technologies for Development. Research infrastructure is anchored by 32 research groups and three associated research centres, most notably the Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP), a joint UPM-INIA/CSIC institute.

Revenue mechanics are those of a state-subsidized public university school: tuition and academic fees set by UPM and the Spanish regional/national government, supplemented by research grants, continuing education, and external laboratory services. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is governed by centralized public frameworks rather than market dynamics. Customer segments are dominated by prospective domestic undergraduate students entering through Spain's Selectividad/EBAU system and feeding into UPM's centralized preinscripción admissions pipeline, with secondary segments in graduate students, international visiting researchers, and development-sector professionals. Go-to-market is sales-led and event-driven: open days, the San Isidro patron festival, Association Day, a Professional Mentoring Program, and a six-show podcast network (Radio Savia) collectively drive recruitment and brand engagement.

Strategically, ETSIAAB has prioritized regulatory and quality-assurance positioning, securing Institutional Accreditation from the Consejo de Universidades (October 29, 2025), SISCAL madri+d certification (July 10, 2025, six-year validity), EUR-ACE Bachelor certification for two engineering degrees, and ABET accreditation for Food Engineering — collectively establishing a cross-jurisdictional regulatory moat that is uncommon among Spanish public university schools. The institution has no private capital structure, no funding rounds, no M&A history, and no commercial product line beyond educational delivery and the Radio Savia media platform.

Name

ETSI Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas - ETSIAAB

Legal name

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas

Website

https://etsiaab.upm.es

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ETSIAAB is a public university school within Spain's Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, delivering five undergraduate degrees and master's programs in agronomy, food science, biotechnology, and biosystems engineering, supported by 32 research groups and the CBGP plant biotechnology centre.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (61131)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAHAEAA

Engineering & Technology Institutes (Comprehensive)

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Technical & Polytechnic Universities

SECONDARYEDAHAEAH

Technical Universities with Entrepreneurship & Incubation Focus

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Technical & Polytechnic Universities

SECONDARYEDAHAEAJ

Technical Universities with Architecture, Built Environment & Design Engineering

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Technical & Polytechnic Universities

Keywords

• Agricultural engineering education
• Food engineering programs
• Biotechnology degree programs
• University research groups
• Higher education degrees

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Tuition and academic fees: As a public Spanish university school, ETSIAAB generates revenue primarily through government-funded tuition fees paid by students, subsidized by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Additional revenue comes from research grants, continuing education programs, and external laboratory services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ETSIAAB is a public university school that delivers undergraduate degree programs (Grados) in Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy, Agricultural Engineering, Agroenvironmental Engineering, and Food Engineering, as well as master's programs in Agricultural Engineering and Development Strategies and Technologies. Its offerings are delivered on campus in Madrid to predominantly domestic students, supported by 32 research groups and associated research centres (including CBGP) and reinforced by accreditations such as EUR-ACE, ABET, and SISCAL madri+d.

Product overview

ETSIAAB is a technical university school offering undergraduate degrees (Grados) and master's programs (Másteres) in agronomy, food science, biotechnology, and related fields. The portfolio includes five undergraduate degree programs (Biotecnología, Ciencias Agrarias y Bioeconomía, Ingeniería Agrícola, Ingeniería Agroambiental, and Ingeniería Alimentaria), two main master's programs (the habilitante Master's in Agricultural Engineering and the specialized Master's in Development Strategies), and a podcast platform called Radio Savia for scientific outreach and community engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Radio Savia: Radio Savia is a podcast project of the ETSIAAB that hosts various podcast series including Brotes de Ciencia, Lingüistas en la ETSIAAB, Los pueblos de la ETSIAAB, Aula Ceres, Onda Kybele, and Talento ETSIAAB.

Products and services

• Grado en Biotecnología Undergraduate degree program in Biotechnology covering plant, animal, and food biotechnology with a focus on molecular methods and scientific research, aimed at prospective students entering through the Spanish Selectividad/EBAU system.
• Grado en Ciencias Agrarias y Bioeconomía Undergraduate degree program in Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy focusing on sustainable agricultural production and economic aspects, for prospective students seeking careers in agronomy and bioeconomy.
• Grado en Ingeniería Agrícola Undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering with specialization options in mechanization and rural constructions, certified with EUR-ACE Bachelor accreditation.
• Grado en Ingeniería Agroambiental Undergraduate degree in Agroenvironmental Engineering covering environmental aspects of agriculture and sustainable practices, for prospective students interested in agricultural sustainability.
• Grado en Ingeniería Alimentaria Undergraduate degree in Food Engineering preparing professionals for the food industry with focus on processing, safety, and quality, certified with EUR-ACE Bachelor and ABET accreditations.
• Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Agronómica Professional master's degree (120 ECTS, 4 semesters, 75 student capacity per cohort) that qualifies graduates for the profession of Ingeniero Agrónomo, covering agriculture, livestock, and agroindustry challenges with innovation and sustainability.
• Máster en Estrategias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo Interdisciplinary master's program (90 ECTS) in Strategies and Technologies for Development, training professionals to design and implement international cooperation projects for sustainable development, jointly offered with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Quantifiable outcome

• Degrees in Ingeniería Alimentaria and Ingeniería Agrícola hold EUR-ACE Bachelor certification, recognized across European engineering education frameworks.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CBGP is one of three research centres associated with ETSIAAB, conducting research in plant biotechnology and genomics. Multiple ETSIAAB researchers and professors are affiliated with CBGP, collaborating on plant genetics, biotechnology, virology, allergens, and related fields. CBGP is a joint UPM-INIA/CSIC institute.
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerETSIAAB collaborates with UCM on the joint Master's program in Strategies and Technologies for Development (Estrategias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo), jointly offered with UCM's Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences. This interdisciplinary program involves both universities under the Centro de Innovación en Tecnologías para el Desarrollo Humano (itdUPM).
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerETSIAAB is an integral school of UPM, Spain's top technical university. It operates within UPM's administrative, academic, and quality frameworks, using UPM platforms (Moodle, UPMdrive, Politécnica Virtual) and benefitting from UPM's institutional recognition, international agreements, and centralized services.
• Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+dminorOthersThis regional foundation awarded ETSIAAB the SISCAL madri+d certification on July 10, 2025, recognizing the implementation of its Internal Quality Assurance System. The certification is valid for six years.
• Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlumna Lucía Jiménez Montenegro conducted her industrial PhD between ETSIAAB and UPNA, with a research stay at the University of Guelph in Canada, demonstrating collaborative academic pathways between the institutions.
• Ayuntamiento de Madrid (City of Madrid)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerETSIAAB participates in urban agriculture initiatives, including urban horticulture projects (Huertos Urbanos en la ETSIAAB), which involve collaboration with the city of Madrid for land use and community engagement.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Technical University of Denmark (DTU): Nordic technical university with food and bioengineering departments applying similar engineering-school and research-group structures, though broader in portfolio; useful benchmark for Scandinavian recruitment and applied research intensity.
• ETH Zürich: Europe's leading technical university with broader scope than ETSIAAB, but operates a comparable model of engineering-focused higher education and research, and competes for top-tier international faculty and research funding.

Direct peers

• Universidad de Córdoba: Spanish public university with a strong Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y de Montes offering agronomic and forestry engineering degrees, competing for the same domestic student pool and Spanish agrifood research funding.
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - other ETS schools: Other Escuela Técnica Superior schools within the same UPM parent (e.g., ETSII, ETSIT, ETSICCP) share the same institutional governance, admissions, accreditation, and student-support infrastructure, making them directly comparable in operating model, scale, and student experience.
• Wageningen University & Research: Wageningen is Europe's leading university specialized in agronomy, food science, and biosystems, mirroring ETSIAAB's three-pillar focus. It is the most directly comparable institution internationally in terms of academic portfolio and research orientation.
• Universidad Politècnica de València (UPV): Spain's other leading technical university system with overlapping agricultural, food, and industrial engineering degree offerings, sharing the same Spanish higher-education regulatory framework, EUR-ACE accreditation pipeline, and agrifood/biotech research footprint.
• Universitat de Lleida - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Agrària (ETSEA): Catalan public university's agronomy school offering agricultural, food, and forestry engineering degrees within the same Spanish regulatory framework; a regional peer competing for talent in northeastern Spain.
• Cranfield University: UK-based postgraduate university specializing in applied science, technology, and management including food science and agritech. Comparable in scale, applied engineering focus, and industry-aligned research partnerships.

Others

• Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d: Madrid region's knowledge foundation that issues the SISCAL quality certification ETSIAAB holds; functions as a regional quality assurance and ecosystem partner rather than a direct competitor.
• INIA / CSIC (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria): Spain's national agrifood research institute and joint operator of the CBGP with ETSIAAB/UPM. Functions as a research partner and adjacent peer in agronomic and food science research collaboration.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/daetsiaab_upm
• Facebookfacebook.com/daetsiaabupm
• Instagraminstagram.com/delegacion_etsiaab
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/etsi-agronomica-alimentaria-y-de-biosistemas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about ETSI Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas - ETSIAAB