THIS ISGHENTUNIVERSITY

© UGent, Jonas Vandecasteele en Yentl Vandendriessche

A KNOWLEDGE LOVE STORY

CONTENT‒ Location‒History‒Mission‒Faculties‒Staff

‒Education‒Research‒ International‒Network‒Rankings

LOCATION4

GHENT (BELGIUM)

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London310 km

Paris290 km

Amsterdam220 km

Brussels55 km

Berlin790 km

GHENT (BELGIUM)

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A genuine student city with +70,000 students

CAMPUSES OUTSIDE OF GHENT: KORTRIJK, OSTEND, BRUGES

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GHENT UNIVERSITYGLOBAL CAMPUSThe 1st European university in Songdo, South-Korea.UGent Asian hub since 2014: 450 students Molecular Bio-, Food andEnvironmental Technology.

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GUGC

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A RICH HISTORY

1817̶ Inauguration of ‘State

University Ghent’̶ Latin is the language

of tuition

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1876-1890Research becomes animportant responsibility

1830Belgian IndependenceFrench becomes thelanguage of tuition

1930Dutch becomes thelanguage of tuition

1991More autonomy: ‘State University Ghent’ becomes‘Ghent University’

2013Integration of academicprogrammes universitycolleges.

2003Ghent University Association

2014Start in South Korea

2017200 years!

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MISSION12

MISSION STATEMENTGhent University wants to be a creative community of staff, students and alumni, connected by the values the university upholds: engagement, openness and pluralism.

Our motto is Dare to Think: we encourage students and staff members to adopt a critical approach.

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RECTORProfessor Rik Van de Walle

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FACULTIES15

11 FACULTIES- Managed by the dean and the faculty board- Divided into departments

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STAFF19

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STAFF

‒ Ghent University: around 9,000 staff members

‒ UZ Gent: around 6,000 staff members‒ 12% international staff‒ Core values as an employer:

Diversity

Participation

Skill-based

Open corporate culture

Evaluation & Support

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EDUCATION

EDUCATION

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Bachelor’s 50

Master’s 157

Postgraduate 21(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

EDUCATION

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BACHELOR’S PROGRAMMES 50

Dutch-taught: 46

English-taught: 1+3 GUGC (Korea)

MASTER’S PROGRAMMES 157

Dutch-taught: 102

English-taught: 555 International Course Programmes

9 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees

Many separate English courses(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

EDUCATION

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Total number of students 45,979

International students 13%(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

NUMBER OF STUDENTS PER FACULTY

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(NUMBERS: OCT 2019)

13%

6%

27%

5%

16%

7%

34%

5%

28%

8%

17%

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Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Faculty of Sciences

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Belgian Students International Students

RESEARCH27

RESEARCHERS AT GHENT UNIVERSITY

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Professorial researchers 1,433

Total number of researchers 8,220

(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

ACADEMICPROGRESS

MODELTALENT

DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING

QUALITYRECRUITMENT

RESEARCH INTEGRITY

LEADERSHIP & TRUST

Postdoctoral researchers 1,462

Predoctoral researchers 5,325

DOCTORAL SCHOOLS

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Facilitates quality doctoral research

Offers support and training

Strives to improve the social value of the PhD

716PHD DEGREES

AWARDEDIN 2018

+4,500TOTAL NUMBER

OF PHD STUDENTSINTERNATIONAL:

45%

(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

INPUTResearch expenditures 2018: € 308 million

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Private Research Funding Public Research Funding - EU and International Public Research Funding - Regional and National

(NUMBERS: JUNE 2019)

66 ERC projects

OUTPUTPublications 2008 - 2018

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Total number of publications at Ghent University 53,718

31,435INTERNATIONALPUBLICATIONS

12,381GHENT

UNIVERSITY ONLY

9,902BELGIAN

PUBLICATIONS

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RESEARCHERS(CLARIVATE, 2019)

(PUBLICATIONS: SCIE, SSCI, AHCI IN WOS - NUMBERS: 2018)

TECHTRANSFER

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69 SPIN-OFFS

(2009-2018)618

PATENTS(2009-2018)

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CENTERSINTENSIVE

COLLABORATIONWITH INDUSTRY

INTERNATIONALISATION33

INTERNATIONALISATION ACHIEVEMENTS

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2017 EAIE Institutional Award forInnovation in Internationalisation

Outstanding achievements in Erasmus

Several prestigious grants of theEuropean Research Council

INTERNATIONALISATION INSTITUTIONAL GOALS

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By 2020:

25% of all graduating students have a study abroad experience

100% of all study programmeshave incorporated international and intercultural competences in the programme competences

STUDENT MOBILITY

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2,052

6,012

Ghent University students abroad yearly[23% of all graduating students with experience abroad]

Foreign students at Ghent University [including 1,542 exchange students and393 at GUGC]

(NUMBERS: OCT. 2019)

European pioneer in the digitisationof student mobility processes

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

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Projects with universities in developing countries

Education Research Capacity building

5 PLATFORMS

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NETWORK39

NETWORK

Institutional strategic partnerships

Institutional regional partnerships

Global Initiaives Partnership

• U4Society: UGent, Groningen, Göttingen, Tartu, Uppsala

• Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership: UGent, University of Missouri, University of the Western Cape

Kent (UK)Lille (France)

RANKINGS41

RANKINGS

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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 (Shanghai ranking)

Times Higher Education Ranking

Worldwide: 66

National: 1

Worldwide: 143

National: 3

(NUMBERS: 2020)

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