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. Thought and action: the Master of Multilingual Communication (in its various language combinations) reconciles an academic with a practice-oriented and job-oriented profile. The programme offers current overviews of linguistic theory, translation theory and communication theory in combination with a professional language and translation proficiency in Dutch and in two foreign languages, and an in-depth knowledge of the culture and society of the chosen linguistic regions.
2. A strong team of lecturers:our programme boasts a dedicated team of lecturers, who combine their research expertise with a passion for teaching. Our lecturers and teaching assistants have specialised in their teaching assignment and reconcile that expertise with their professional experience. Each language department employs native speakers.
3. A diversity of teaching and assessment methods: we aim for a wide variety of teaching and assessment methods. Theoretic course units take the form of lectures. In our practice-oriented seminars you will set to work diligently in small groups of fellow-students and lecturers. We combine end-of-term assessment (exams) with interim assignments and assessment. By means of the latter, students can take control of your own learning process.
4. Keeping abreast of developments in the professional field: our programme prepares you for the specific requirements of the professional field, e.g. in terms of language teaching (secondary education, foreign languages, and Dutch), applications of language technology, interpreting contexts, translation projects or multilingual business communication.
5. The wide world. Our Bachelor's programme is the absolute number one in terms of internationalisation. All our students have the opportunity to spend one term abroad. What is more, we are one of the driving forces behind the unique Applied European Languages programma, a four-year Bachelor’s programme in the course of which you spend two years abroad.