Vlerick in Short

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is a top European Management School, with campuses in Ghent and Leuven, Belgium, and St-Petersburg, Russia. Being the autonomous Management School of Ghent University and KULeuven, the School also has important international alliances with universities and business schools all over the world, such as Peking University in China and Amsterdam Business School in the Netherlands. Vlerick was founded in 1953 by the Professor and entrepreneur André Vlerick, and has been Belgium’s leading management school for over half a century. In recent years, the School has been steadily climbing the international rankings in the Financial Times and the Economist, up to reaching the top 10 in the FT European Business School rankings.

As an academic management School, research is central to the mission of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Faculty members and research staff work, often in collaboration with our parent universities, on a variety of research initiatives leading to academic publications, management cases and text books.Together with other European schools, the School has also pioneered research into corporate social responsibility.

With a yearly turnover of 28 million euro, 500 MBA and Masters students, 7,100 executive education enrolments, 106 company-specific programmes and shouldered by 180 staff members, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School advocates life-long learning. The School provides students, executives and entrepreneurs education which is academically sound, fosters an international mindset, addresses leading edge managerial issues and develops an entrepreneurial attitude. The School delivers learning with impact which meets the highest quality standards. As one of a select group of institutions Vlerick holds the three main international accreditations: the American AACSB, the British AMBA and the European EQUIS quality label. Over 14.000 active alumni in more than 100 different countries are proof of Vlerick’s world-wide success.