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. Program: a wide range of opportunities to build knowledge and/or skills in different fields according to the student's interests and needs.
2. Good contacts with industry: company visits, professors with industrial background, company project and master's theses.
3. Well-equipped infrastructure: a variety of bench and pilot-scale labs for steam cracking, catalysis, polymers and analytical techniques and a strong computing infrastructure (both in-house and access to supercomputer).
4. Multidisciplinarity: around a core carried by professors from the MaTCh department, there is an input of expertise from other fields by professors from other departments.
5. Final competencies: strong fundamental mathematical and scientific basis to problem-solve thinking, making the students highly desired in both industry and research institutes.

1. Assessment: students appreciate being well-informed about the form and content of assessments so they know clearly what to expect while studying.
2. Subject experts: classes are taught by internationally renowned professors in their respective fields.
3. Student-teacher interaction: connection with students through representation of student association MaChT on the program committee, providing additional contact opportunities between students and those who support the program. This provides initial, faster feedback on top of formal teaching evaluations.
4. Master thesis supervision: each master thesis student is provided with all the necessary experimental and computational infrastructure and a personal supervisor who is a specialist in the subject.
5. Room for project work and practical experience: the program alternates between lectures, project work, exercise classes and lab work.

1. Internationalization: increase visibility to potential foreign students for the English-language master's program, further optimization of the procedure for incoming and outgoing students.
2. Continuity of practical courses: A point of attention are the practical courses taught by professors with main activity in industry, with a maximum appointment for three years.
3. Balance between industry and research: maintain the balance between expansion of industry practice-oriented topics (e.g., increased focus on process safety and design) and research techniques necessary for academic careers.

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.