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. Research-oriented: the Electrical Engineering programme is based on recent, state-of-the-art research results by our own professorial staff and researchers. Our students are trained to becoming engineers with the ability to apply existing knowledge and to create new high technology.
2. Project Learning Pathway: each year’s curriculum contains at least one project course unit, in which our students learn to tackle multidisciplinary assignments in a targeted manner. Working together in teams, the students step by step acquire a set of soft skills such as planning, convincing, presenting efficiently, giving feedback and reporting.
3. Efficient Systems: our graduates are able to design and realize complex systems containing hardware and software components. In so doing, they have learnt to be mindful of an efficient use of means, time and energy.  
4. Our students gain an understanding of the different steps in the development chain of electronic devices such as smartphones. We start with the characteristics of the raw materials, over the design and testing, right up until the finished product.  
5. Broad curriculum: our curriculum covers a broad technological basis, making our graduates into much sought-after employees in many sectors. Later in the curriculum, this solid basis allows for more freedom of choice and gives students the opportunity to tailor the curriculum according to their own interests.
6. In recent years the importance of the Electrical Engineering degree has received more attention: nothing in a modern society can work without electronics and the green an sustainable evolution is impossible without it. This is acknowledged in the European Chip act which explains the urgent need of more Electrical Engineers.

1. State of the Art: our alumni have no trouble finding suitable, high-level jobs and point out  high national and international esteem for our programme. To live up to this reputation, the Programme Committee continuously monitors the programme’s quality, relevance and topicality. We have been updating the Master’s curriculum in this way ever since 2017-2018.
2. Our programme is embedded in a strong research environment: research activity in our discipline is high, and we have close ties with imec. These two factors combined, means that we can avail ourselves of a large pool of committed researchers. It is our explicit choice to include these researchers in our education. Students receive targeted coaching and supervision in their exercises, practicals, projects and their Master’s dissertation. We have also invested heavily in infrastructure (equipment, lab space), the most obvious testimony of which being the new IGent Tower.
3. Our programme boasts a highly committed team of lecturers. They combine their passion for teaching with a ceaseless commitment towards creating high-quality education. All of our lecturers are highly approachable and ready to answer students’ questions.
4. Our curriculum leaves ample room for practical experience, e.g. by means of projects, (international) work placements, and the Master’s dissertation. The Master’s dissertation and project course units are well-organized: our students traditionally produce high-quality work.
5. Our graduates are in high demand on the job market and have good career perspectives. They usually receive multiple job offers, or start their own company. Our programme also instils in our students an attitude of lifelong learning and a desire to be abreast with the newest developments.

1. Our programme’s profile is insufficiently known among prospective students. Although young people nowadays use highly complex electronic devices (smartphone, satnav, tablet…) on a daily basis, they have no clue of how these devices actually work. As a consequence, they often do not realize that our programme is all about the underlying electronics, signal processing and communication of precisely these devices. The importance of electronics is a message that needs further active spreading, something to which we contribute wholeheartedly (e.g. Science Day, the robotics competition, among other things).
2. Society would benefit from more diversity among the electrical engineers. For that purpose, we stimulate children and youngsters to recognize the importance of technology (STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Among our international research staff, we have excellent role models for appealing to prospective students with a migration background. In addition, we want to participate in our faculty’s efforts of introducing technology into schools and making it more attractive to girls.
3. Internationalization: Our programme is taught in English, which allows international students to enter the degree. But the programme should attract more international top students.

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 and here.

This information was last updated on 14/02/2023.
In case of questions or suggestions with regard to the publicly available information, please contact the study programme.