Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is Belgium's largest and most established management school, and has an established tradition of management education and research dating back to 1953. The school benefits from the amassed knowledge of these two biggest Belgian universities, each having a strong reputation in fundamental research and its close connections with the international corporate world lead to practice-based research in cooperation with numerous companies and organisations.
The school offers an International MBA programme, 3 Master programmes and numerous training programmes for company executives, and has literally thousands of graduates successfully operating at top management levels in the manufacturing industry, in consultancy, in services and in the public sector in over 70 countries.
- Triple accredited by Equis, AMBA and AACSB
- The School is also positioned in various international rankings
- Financial Times Ranking for Executive Education programmes in 2005
- Global Position: 29th worldwide
- 2005 Financial Times Ranking for Executive MBAs:56th in the world
- Economist Intelligence Unit Ranking for full-time MBAs in 2005:12th in the world1st in Benelux4th in Europe
The School has recognised research centres in Accounting & Finance, Entrepreneurship, Governance & Strategy, People & Organisation, Operations & Technology Management and Marketing. It holds particular research expertise in Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Doing Business in Europe and Corporate Social Responsibility.
The Vlerick MBA
The full-time MBA runs for one academic year in the international campus in Leuven. It is designed to take young executives through a rapid, rigorous academic development in all aspects of general management.Starting in August the programme consists of 11 months of intensive coursework including a two month in-company consultancy project.
An initial programme introducing the basics of statistics, report writing, economics, presentation skills and leadership are supplemented by initial investigations into entrepreneurship and group dynamics. These themes are continuously developed during the programme.
The core of the MBA courses are delivered during the period September through March interspersed with exchanges to Italy, Spain, UK, USA, India and Ireland. At the end of the formal course delivery an integration game developed by faculty of the School is run to bring together the various streams within the MBA and to give participants practise at managing decision making and problem solving in a controlled environment.
During the project the participants have an opportunity to use the material learned during the courses in a real business situation. The project and the defence of the findings and recommendations is the final stage of the MBA.
Our full-time MBA is truly international in terms of participants, subject matter and faculty. The full-time programme has on average 85 % non-Belgian students and currently represents some 30 countries in the 55 person group. The vast majority of these participants have lived or worked in at least one other country than their country of origin. The average age of the group is 31 and thus the average work experience is some 6,5 years. A lot of time is devoted to sharing the wealth of international multicultural experience in each of the disciplines covered in the MBA programme.
Programmes: Full-Time MBA (1 year), Part-Time MBA (2 years)
Starting date: Late August, September
Key requirements: first degree, 3 years business experience, GMAT & TOEFL and completed application form with essays.
