This research aimed at the evaluation of a programme, quite uncommon in the French educative system, designed to give students in agriculture access to higher education at training colleges for engineers (of the type “French grandes écoles”). It consisted in identifying, within the frame of a curriculum approach, the strategies developed by the students to make use of the programme, beginning with the reasons motivating their own choices up to their way to employment. The methodological construct provided preliminary interviews, the analysis of questionnaires filled in by the target students as well as interwiews with postcollege teachers and former students now in employment. The research thus conducted first showed results about the impact of the programme (through the display of typical strategies), second, illustrated the contribution of a methodology for curriculum evaluation to the working out of these results.