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 Engineering

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

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Objectives

Economic analysis

Graduates know and understand the leading concepts in economics, and are able to use them to analyse and solve typical problems from an economic conceptual framework.

Management of business domains

Graduates know the core concepts in the different business management areas and can identify and illustrate the purpose of the various business areas.

Graduates use their knowledge of the business domains to analyse business problems, and they can propose, compare and evaluate different solutions in a structured and simple business context.

Design of business processes

Graduates can develop primary (production and operational), governance (management) and supporting processes, and guide these processes so as to ensure a company’s optimal functioning.

ICT skills and information management

Graduates know and understand the techniques and strategies used by organisations to manage and analyse information, with a view to business management and their use in a decision-making context.

Graduates are familiar with the principles of programming and can develop a realistic application of an algorithm in a programming language.

Mathematical and statistical techniques

Graduates are able to employ advanced quantitative models to analyse and solve management problems in a specified context.

Research skills

Graduates can, with assistance, complete the different stages of research to analyse a concrete problem, formulate and evaluate solutions, and communicate about this.

Natural and applied sciences

Graduates can employ the basic concepts in environmental and applied sciences to analyse technological processes.

Behavior and society

Graduates can describe and interpret the behaviour of economic actors and can assess their consequences for an organisation and society at large.

Law

Graduates have insight into the legal context in which organisations operate.

Languages

Graduates communicate clearly in the language of the programme (English) as well as in at least one foreign languages.

Professional skills and employability

Graduates develop professional skills that prepare them for the transition to the labour market (leadership skills, team work, communication skills, etc.).

Ethics, responsibility and sustainability

Graduates recognise and can critically reflect on the social, ethical and environmental aspects of business management.

International orientation

Graduates recognise the international and intercultural dimensions of business management and policy making, and can analyse (business-)economic issues as part of an international framework.

Entrepreneurship and innovation

Graduates boast the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to translate innovative ideas into actions that have a real impact on businesses or a socio-economic context.

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.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint Ba Ma handelsingenieur Ba Ma Business Engineering.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA report_BA_Business Engineering_Brussel.pdf

Educational quality at university level

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

More information?

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