Vlerick in Short

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the autonomous management school of the Ghent University and K.U.Leuven. It was founded in 1953 by André Vlerick, a professor and entrepreneur, and has been Belgium’s leading management school for over half a century now. In recent years, the School has been steadily climbing the international rankings in the Financial Times and the Economist, and is in the process of achieving its ambition of figuring among the top 10 in Europe. The School has unique expertise in two research fields: ‘innovation and entrepreneurship’ and ‘doing business in Europe’. In addition, together with other European schools, it has pioneered research into corporate social responsibility. The talent within the school is divided between three campuses: students and managers can operate in Ghent, Leuven or St. Petersburg (Russia).

The School’s management courses meet the highest quality standards. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is one of a select group of institutions to hold the three main international accreditations: the American AACSB, the British AMBA and the European EQUIS quality label. The School offers MBA and Masters courses, as well as general and specialised courses for managers and custom-designed training for individual companies. It has over 12,500 active alumni in more than 100 different countries.

The goal of this international and academic management school is to help professionalise management and encourage entrepreneurship. The School’s core values are synthesis, entrepreneurship, integrity and autonomy, respect for diversity and customer focus