At Ghent University, we strive to educate people who dare to think about the challenges of tomorrow. For that purpose, we provide education that is embedded in six strategic objectives: Think Broadly, Keep Researching, Cultivate Talent, Contribute, Extend Horizons, Opt for Quality.
Ghent University continuously focuses on quality assurance and quality culture. The Ghent University's quality assurance system offers information on each study programme’s unique selling points, and on its strengths and weaknesses with regard to quality assurance.

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Ghent University's Education Objectives

Quality Assurance at Ghent University

1. Broad talent development. We offer our students a solid scientific training, including a wide range of knowledge, skills and attitudes, including experimentation, modelling and simulation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, critical and creative thinking and collaboration.
2. Excellent research. Our study programme has a long-standing tradition of high-quality international research, in which we involve our students from the very beginning. The strong interrelationship between research and education is apparent, for example, in internship opportunities and the Bachelor’s and Master’s dissertation.
3. Active cooperation. Students appreciate the innovative and project-based approach of passionate lecturers with international research expertise. They are particularly appreciative of the low-threshold contact between students, lecturers and PhD students.
4. Student-centred approach. Student appreciation for our thoroughly revised Bachelor’s and Master’s curriculum is high. The new curricula are versatile, future-oriented and allow for a wide freedom of choice based on students’ personal interests, talents and ambitions. The Master’s curriculum is fully English-taught. By means of three Main Subjects, the curriculum leaves room for professional/vocational as well as in-depth training.
5. Future-oriented approach. Students see an important added value in the English-taught Master’s programme in terms of future employment. Graduates quickly find work in various (international) sectors and profiles in research (doctorate), industry or education.

1. Vision and programme.Our study programme has a strong future-oriented vision of chemistry, which takes into account the wide range of career opportunities in the field. We have translated that vision into a curriculum in which chemistry is covered in all its aspects, focusing on broad and in-depth knowledge, and on scientific skills and attitudes.
2. Participation.Systematic quality improvement based on (student) feedback is part of our DNA. Our students, for instance, are actively involved in programme management, and our curricular reform is the result of thorough consultations of all our (external) stakeholders.
3. Assessment.
4. Openness. We place great store by the low-threshold and dynamic culture that exists among lecturers, students and the professional field, and their involvement in our education policy. All of our lecturers are passionate professionals.
5. Promoting chemistry. We actively reach out to secondary schools and have various initiatives for bringing secondary school pupils into contact with the beauty of chemistry. In addition, we actively promote chemistry in wider (international) society.

1. We want to strengthen our individuality further vis-à-vis (international) students, graduates and the professional field by means of our advisory group, staff mobility and network events.
2. We want to contribute actively to the reorganization and renewal of a state-of-the-art infrastructure for our practicals.
3. The Master’s curriculum has been thoroughly revised, including the introduction of three main subjects, and an industrial or academic international work placement. This new curriculum is continuously assessed and updated, with a focus on the use of digital teaching methods.

This study programme is accredited by the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch: NVAO). Accreditation was extended following the positive outcome of the institutional review in 2022. Programme quality was validated by a quality review, i.e. a screening of the Education Monitor by the Education Quality Board. The Quality Assurance Resolution (in Dutch) can be found here.

This information was last updated on 01/02/2023.
In case of questions or suggestions with regard to the publicly available information, please contact the study programme.