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. Multiperspectivism: throughout the programme we prompt our students to critical self-reflection, and a problem-solving attitude. Our graduates are team-minded and versatile assets to a broad labour market. The Chemical Engineering Technology programme is inherently and explicitly multidisciplinary in nature.
2. Talent Development: we deliver versatile graduates with a specialization in one of our programme’s two majors: Industrial Chemistry or Plastics. Our curriculum covers topics such as sustainability, safety, management and communication. In so doing, it follows fast-evolving tendencies in society.
3. Knowledge Creation: technical aspects and skills are at the core of our curriculum. Company visits, guest lectures, visiting professors and the Master’s dissertation ensure our curriculum’s strong ties to the professional field.
4. The new curriculum boasts a strengthened emphasis on typical engineering course units with an extra focus on peripheral disciplines (that support chemical processes). This at once strengthens and broadens our programme.
5. Integration of Theory, Practice and Project Work: the entire study programme builds on a well-considered balance between theoretical groundwork and the integration of that theoretical knowledge by means of tutorials, practicals, and project work.

1. Lecturers’ Commitment: our team of committed lecturers combines research expertise or (work) experience with a passion for high-quality education.
2. Coaching (and) Student Talent Development: each student receives intensive coaching via the many tutorials and practicals. By means of these engineering-oriented didactic methods, we put theoretical knowledge into practice.
3. Special Focus on Active Teaching: a variety of teaching methods ensures that our students actively engage with the learning contents and study materials, with their fellow-students and with their lecturers.
4. Approachability: we invest in intensive personal contact between our lecturers and our students. Throughout the first year, students can count on tutorial services tailored to their individual needs.  
5. Research: throughout the programme we ensure that students acquire optimal research skills.

1. Monitoring Programme Profile: our study programme’s technical and applied component, and the instrumental-analytical learning pathway need permanent consideration and investment.
2. Proper balance is needed between implementing interim assessment and active teaching methods, and the workload this entails.
3. We need to ensure that sufficient Master’s dissertation topics can be executed in collaboration with the industry or the professional field. Considering its problem-solving and hands-on character, this type of Master’s dissertation proves especially valuable in keeping abreast of developments in the chemical industry.
4. Internationalization remains a matter of concern, as organizing international mobility in a one-year Master’s programme is no easy matter. Nevertheless, we keep looking into new bilateral Erasmus agreements. In addition, the possibility of taking a work placement and/or Master’s dissertation abroad deserves further promotion.

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.