Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School has deep academic roots. Founded by professor André baron Vlerick in 1953 and the Autonomous Management School of Ghent University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, it offers a unique reservoir of knowledge. The school benefits from the amassed knowledge of the two biggest Belgian universities, both older than Belgium itself, each having a strong reputation in fundamental research. In order to respond adequately to your evolving management needs, crucial access to the latest research is available; not only to the research conducted by the school, but also to the research of others. Our close connections with the international corporate world lead to practice-based research in cooperation with numerous companies and organisations. The school is the only Belgian school to hold triple accreditation: from EQUIS, AMBA and the American AACSB label. This makes the school one of the 20 business schools in the world to hold triple accreditation.

MASTERING MANAGEMENT IN THE HEART OF EUROPE

Our Masters degrees focus on the development of both general management, marketing or finance skills and the managerial tools needed to apply these in a senior capacity. Hence our graduates are much better placed to move into senior operational positions at a much earlier point in their careers. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School has been delivering these Masters degrees since 1959 and has literally thousands of graduates successfully operating at top management levels in the manufacturing industry, consultancy, services and the public sector in over 70 countries. Yearly we select around 130 Masters candidates to become the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School cohort. The diversity in these groups is amazing. The academic backgrounds of the group are similarly diverse as is their range of skills and interests. One thing they have in common is a yearning for a significant increase in their skills set and the introductions that will help to open doors in their future.

MASTERS IN GENERAL MANAGEMENT

The Masters in General Management programme is widely acclaimed in national and international business circles. It is a one-year, full-time academic programme designed for young university graduates. The courses are practice-based and cover all management disciplines, with a special focus on management skills. The curriculum provides the knowledge, the skills and the techniques needed to address a wide range of business-related issues and gives our students access to top executive jobs.

MASTERS IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Masters in Financial Management is more than just a series of independent courses. During the Masters in Financial Management students will learn how to integrate the distinct financial management techniques and theories: integrative cases, a business game, a financial-administrative audit and the final project provide students with the skills required to integrate concepts and techniques. In addition, the programme covers other functional domains within a business, including strategy. It also teaches essential management skills such as meeting or presentation techniques, managing negotiations and the like. We believe that our approach can make you excel as tomorrowÂ’s successful financial manager.

MASTERS IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT

The Masters in Marketing Management programme aims to prepare creative, talented and ambitious university graduates for a successful marketing management career. During our Masters in Marketing Management programme we offer our students not only the theoretical foundations of marketing management, but also - and mainly - the skills needed to apply these marketing concepts. We are as much, if not more, interested in doing than in thinking! It goes without saying that most of these marketing management skills cannot be taught ex cathedra but requires an interactive and experience-based approach.