Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Bachelor of Business Administration.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Profile

Objectives

• Has acquired thorough knowledge in business studies and developed a great business sensitivity which he is able to use in a targeted way when analysing and solving organisational and management problems.
• Has knowledge and understanding of the different domains of business management and the coherence between them.
• Has knowledge of and understands the theories and models of economic sciences and uses them to analyze organisational and management problems, also in an international context.
• Has a broad knowledge and understanding of related social sciences and can use this efficiently in the analysis of organisational and management problems and in evaluating the impact of these problems on society.
• Has knowledge and insight into the supporting sciences (mathematics, statistics ...) and their applications. In particular, the student is able to use quantitative models to analyse and solve organisational and management problems in a defined context.
• Can formulate (under supervision) a research question related to organisational and management-related topics and use appropriate research methods critically to solve a problem.
• Is able to do a targeted search for scientific information, evaluate and process it and can report and refer to it correctly.
• Displays an inquisitive attitude: accuracy, critical reflection, scientific curiousness, justification of choices made.
• Is able to function as a team member in various roles.
• Is able to communicate correctly, fluently and clearly in writing and orally in the language of instruction of the program and additionally in two other languages if the language of instruction is not English.
• Displays management skills and entrepreneurship, focusing on operational problem solving.
• Recognises the social and ethical aspects of management and can reflect critically on them.
• Has insight into his or her own competencies and motives, takes a pro-active attitude towards his or her own development and can reflect critically on their own behaviour.

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration encourages and pursues developmental aspects in all its courses in the field of:

Professional skills and employability

-          The student develops a professional attitude as well as professional and academic skills that enable him/her to deliver a meaningful contribution to society.

-          The student actively searches for settings to broaden and/or deepen his/her competences in accordance with his/her disciplinary future self.

-          The student acknowledges the importance of continuing education and shows willingness to participate in lifelong learning.

Ethics, responsibility and sustainability

-          In his/her thinking and acting the student shows attention for the environment, man, and society and develops a critical attitude towards these topics.

-          The student adopts an ethical approach when solving problems in a business context.

International orientation

-          The student pays attention to international and intercultural dimensions of business and policy.

-          The student acknowledges the added value of an international context for their own environment and the society in general.

Entrepreneurship and innovation

-          The student develops a proactive stance and entrepreneurial attitude, characterised by creativity and  a sense of innovation.

When, within a programme, a developmental objective also constitutes a learning outcome, this is also mentioned within the objectives of the programme or the course and becomes binding.

Career perspectives

Educational quality of the study programme

Educational quality at study programme level

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents