Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Vlerick Business School

Type	Autonomous school of Ghent University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ^[1]
Established	1953 ^[2]
Dean	Marion Debruyne
Administrative staff	300
Students	380
Location	Leuven, Ghent and Brussels (Belgium), Saint-Petersburg (Russia) ^[1] 51°03′06″N 3°43′45″E / 51.051777°N 3.729110°E / 51.051777; 3.729110Coordinates: 51°03′06″N 3°43′45″E / 51.051777°N 3.729110°E / 51.051777; 3.729110
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Ghent University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Website	www.vlerick.com

Vlerick management school in Ghent

The Vlerick Business School ("Vlerick") is the autonomous management school of Ghent University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Vlerick was founded in 1953 by professor, politician and entrepreneur Baron André Vlerick.^[3]

Vlerick has four international campuses in Brussels, Ghent, Leuven (Belgium) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Vlerick also has a cooperative program with BiMBA of Peking University's China Center for Economic Research in Beijing (China).^[4]

Vlerick offers MBA & Masters in Management, as well as general and specialized courses for managers, and custom-designed training for individual companies. Over 17,000 alumni in more than 100 different countries are alumni of the management schools.^[5]^[6] In 2015, Vlerick MBA Program was ranked top 100 MBA Programs and Top 10 MBA Program in Entrepreneurship worldwide by Financial Times.^[7]^[8]

Accreditation

Vlerick Business School holds three international accreditations: the American AACSB, the British AMBA, and the European EQUIS.^[9]^[10]

Ranking

Vlerick ranks high amongst international and European business schools:

The Economist magazine ranked Vlerick number 47 among global full-time MBA in 2010.^[11]
Financial Times ranked Vlerick number 15 amongst European business schools in 2015.^[12]
The MBA program ranked number 100 out of all global MBA programs in 2014 according to the Financial Times.^[13]
The EMBA program ranked number 86 amongst global EMBA programs in 2013 according to the Financial Times.^[14]
The Masters in Management program ranked number 29 among global programs in 2013 according to the Financial Times.^[15]
The Masters in Financial management program ranked number 24 among global programs in 2014 according to the Financial Times.^[16]

Notable alumni

Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé
Jo Bury, Former-Managing Director of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)
Bob Claes, General Manager of Standard de Liège
Marc Coucke, co-founder of Omega Pharma
Philippe Delva, CEO of Global Commercial Banking Fortis
Frank Donck
Frank Meysman, Chairman of Thomas Cook Group plc.
Kris Peeters, politician
Rudy Provoost, CEO of Rexel

References

1 2 "Master in Management Compass Vlerick Business School Masters in management". Mim-compass.
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↑ "Vlerick Alumni". vlerick.com.
↑ "Vlerick Business School". Top study belgium.
↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times". rankings.ft.com.
↑ Ortmans, Laurent. "MBA by numbers: Top programmes for entrepreneurship". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
↑ "MBA in General Management - Vlerick Business School". Vlerick.com. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
↑ "Vlerick Business School". Rankings FT.
↑ "Which MBA? | 2010 Full time MBA ranking". The Economist. 2010-09-16. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
↑ "European Business School Rankings 2015" Rankings.ft.com. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2015-12-29
↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - Global MBA Rankings 2014". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - EMBA Ranking 2013". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - Masters in Management 2013". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - Masters in Finance 2014". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

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Universities in Belgium

Dutch-speaking	University of Antwerp (UA) University College of Brussels (HUB) Free University of Brussels (VUB) Ghent University (UGent) University of Hasselt (UHasselt) KU Leuven (KULeuven)

French-speaking	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Saint-Louis University, Brussels (USLB) University of Liège (ULg) Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) University of Mons (UMons) University of Namur (UNamur)

Others	ICHEC Management School [Brussels] Faculty for Protestant Theology [Brussels] transnational University Limburg [Hasselt, Belgium and Maastricht, Netherlands] Evangelical Theological Faculty [Leuven]

Postgraduate	Institute of Tropical Medicine [Antwerp] College of Europe [Bruges] Vlerick Business School [Ghent and Leuven]

Military	Royal Military Academy [Brussels]

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