Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Infobox_University
name = Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School


motto = "We don't teach you anything, we develop what’s already inside you"
established = 1953
staff= 146
dean = Philippe Haspeslagh
rankings
MBA = N°10 Economist
Executive MBA = N°56 Financial Times
city= Leuven & Ghent & Saint-Petersburg
country= Belgium & Russia
campus=
students= 380
MBA = 240
Business= 240
Masters= 140
type = Autonomous Management School of Ghent University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
website= [http://www.vlerick.com/ www.vlerick.com]
affiliations= AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB

The Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (the "School") is the autonomous management school of the University of Ghent and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. It was founded in 1953 by André Vlerick, a professor and entrepreneur, and has been the leading management school in Flanders, Belgium for over half a century now. The School is, together with Solvay Business School in Brussels and the Louvain School of Management, one of the top management schools in Belgium. 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 Saint Petersburg (Russia).

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 13,500 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.

Accreditation

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.

Ranking

In recent years, the School has been steadily climbing the international rankings in the Financial Times and the Economist. It is in the process of achieving its ambition of figuring among the top 10 in EuropeFact|date=March 2008. The Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is ranked by the Financial Times European Business School Ranking [ [http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/ebs F.T. European Business School Rankings] ]

Notable alumni

* Jo Bury, Managing Director of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)
* Marc Coucke, co-founder of Omega Pharma
* Frank Donck
* Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé

See also

* Vlerick Award

References

External links

* [http://www.vlerick.com Website of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School]
* [http://www.highereducation.be More information about higher education in Flanders/Belgium (in English)]
* [http://www.highereducation.be/content.php?section=zoekmachine&subsection=eenvoudig&action=zoeken Find an officially recognised programme of this institution in the Higher Education Register]