Howest, University College West Flanders

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In 1995 Howest,University College West Flanders became a single autonomous Higher Education Institution because of a merger of six prominent institutions of higher education in Flanders. Since then the development within Howest has taken on a fresh impetus and we are now one of the leading providers of higher education in the province.
Today about 6000 full-time students are enrolled at H...owest pursuing 23 Bachelors covering a wide range of disciplines. Howest consists of five campuses situated in Bruges, Kortrijk and Ostend. Students will find here an open, vibrant, cosmopolitan and friendly environment that offers a wealth of educational opportunities, with emphasis on high quality and practice-oriented courses.
Housing accommodation, specialised libraries, individual study schemes, student counselling and study-related services at departmental level stress our student-oriented policy. Our competent teaching and administrative staff form a compact community and are always approachable. All classrooms and auditoria are well equipped to meet the present-day teaching facilities. Internet-accounts are available for all students.
Howest has a growing international reputation, as are the opportunities it offers to students to do part of their studies abroad. Its links to industry and other outside bodies are also expanding. Howest continues to attract the best available academic staff and to modify and develop its curriculum to include new areas of knowledge and to meet the changing needs of today’s student.
Howest welcomes international students and is constantly developing its course offer in English. Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk includes having a series of very attractive locations within a stone"s throw: the Belgian coast as well as our Flemish art cities like Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... You can also reach famous European places like Paris, London, Amsterdam, Cologne in a one or two hours train journey.
Howest University College is atypical, creative en entrepreneurial.
Anticipating the future and exploring the talents and motivation of each student, Howest University College coaches its students to become competent, highly employable, team oriented young professionals.
Howest University College sets the mark for socially relevant, practice-based education and valorisation oriented research and community service for the broad regional and international labour market.
Howest University College is an open-minded university college with respect for diversity.
Howest University College inspires its staff and students to integrate its core values into their personal and professional life.
Howest aspires to be a learning community which strongly invests in developing and enhancing creativity, innovative thinking, entrepreneurship and passion in a diverse intake of students and staff. Its campuses are a fertile habitat that generates cross-pollination and synergy.
Howest gives preference to staff members that show commitment and who identify with its mission and vision. They disseminate the Howest values.
Anticipating new trends and needs, Howest wants to design new profiles. In order to do so, it generates practice-based, state of the art curricula in close collaboration with the labour field. In a multidisciplinary setting, Howest integrates education, research and community service in each curriculum, thus creating an added value for its students, staff and society as a whole.
Howest is convinced that it is of the utmost importance for its staff and students to develop an international mindset and to actively participate in international programmes.
Howest strives for a quality culture in which all stakeholders reflect and participate actively. All programmes receive a maximum support from the facilitating services.
The Howest Foundation has been founded by Howest, the University College West-Flanders, within the Community Foundation West-Flanders (managed by the King Baudouin Foundation). It offers her partners or third parties a financial legal framework to invest in projects and initiatives which are socially relevant for both Howest and the applicants. In the Howest Foundation, social entrepreneurship, which is ingrained with the Howest genes, reaches its climax.