Type Public Students ± 20 000 Total enrollment 20,367 (2016) Founded October 2003 Colors Red, Blue | Academic staff ± 5000 Location Antwerp, Belgium Phone +32 3 265 41 11 Rector Herman Van Goethem | |
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Established 1852; 165 years ago (1852) Campus City Campus
Campus Middelheim
Campus Groenenborger
Campus Drie Eiken Address Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Affiliations Aurora, Utrecht Network, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business Notable alumni Peter Piot, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Dries Buytaert, Patrick Janssens, Paul Stoffels Similar Ghent University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Hasselt, Université libre de Bruxelles Profiles | ||
The University of Antwerp (Dutch: Universiteit Antwerpen) is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is abbreviated as UAntwerp, as the abbreviation UA should no longer be used.
Contents
- University of antwerp in motion
- Origins
- Merger
- Faculties
- Campuses
- Academic ranking
- Notable alumni
- Economics
- History
- Law
- Medicine
- Linguistics and Literature Philosophy
- Political and Social Sciences
- Sciences
- Notable faculty
- Sports
- Student organisations
- References
As of 2014, the University of Antwerp ranks as 170th globally according to Times Higher Education, 205th according to QS World University Rankings and between the 301 and 400th place according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
University of antwerp in motion
Origins
The university's roots go back to Sint-Ignatius Handelshogeschool (Saint-Ignatius School for Higher Education in Commerce) founded by the Jesuit (Society of Jesus) in Antwerp in 1852. This was one of the first European business schools to offer formal university degrees. It later opened a Faculty of Literature and Philosophy (including Law) and a Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. It was renamed Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA) in the 1960s when the Belgian government granted it university status. In the early 1970s UFSIA joined into a confederation with "Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen" (RUCA) and "Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen" (UIA), public institutions.
Merger
In 2003 UFSIA, RUCA, and UIA merged into the University of Antwerp to become the first explicitly pluralistic university in Belgium, offering philosophical, ethical, and spiritual discourse and openness towards religion and intercultural dialogue. It soon became the third largest university in Flanders with 20,000 students. In order to face the challenges posed by the internationalization of European education and research, the University is part of the Antwerp University Association (AUHA). The Catholic influence that the Jesuits had at UFSIA continues through the Saint Ignatius University Centre (UCSIA), Antwerp, founded in 2003.
Faculties
The University of Antwerp has 33 academic bachelor programmes, 69 master programmes, 18 master-after-master programmes and 23 postgraduates. In addition, there are 31 programmes completely taught in English (13 master, 14 master-after-master and 4 postgraduate programmes). All of these programmes are divided into 9 faculties.
The Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) has an autonomous faculty-like UAntwerp status and Antwerp Management School is an autonomous school within the University of Antwerp.
Campuses
The nine campuses are located all over the city of Antwerp, from the historic city centre to the green belt to the south of the city.
Academic ranking
In the 2010 QS World University Rankings the University of Antwerp was ranked 179th overall in the world. On the 2009 THE–QS World University Rankings list (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings), University of Antwerp was ranked on a shared 177th place. An overview of the THE-QS World University Rankings up to 2009:
Times Higher Education World University Ranking:
Notable alumni
Economics
History
Law
Medicine
Linguistics and Literature & Philosophy
Political and Social Sciences
Sciences
Notable faculty
Sports
The University of Antwerp has a long tradition in organizing international student championships. The following FISU, EUSA and IFIUS events have been organized:
Student organisations
At the University of Antwerp there are faculty clubs and regional clubs. All these clubs are governed by VUAS. The student newspaper is called "Dwars".