THIS IS GHENT UNIVERSITY...Inauguration of ‘State University Ghent’ Latin is the language of...
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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!
TIMELINE
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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
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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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