Flanders Business School

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional review and programme accreditation
    University colleges and universities require an institutional review and they have to organize the assessment of the quality of their programmes. Other higher education institutions require programme accreditation. For all new programmes an initial accreditation and a first accreditation by NVAO is mandatory. Only education providers included in the Flemish Higher Education Register can award legally recognised degrees. Programme accreditation is still required for the delivery of new programmes or for programmes with a limited period of accreditation (the ‘Codex Hoger Onderwijs’ 2013).
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Belgium (Flemish Community)

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, KU Leuven
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, KU Leuven

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architectural Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architectural Engineering
    • Master of Science in de ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architectural Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architectural Engineering
    • Master of Science in de ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architectural Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architecture
    • Master of Science in de architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architecture
    • Master of Science in de architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architecture
    • Master of Science in de architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Architecture
    • Master of Science in de architectuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science of Architecture
    • Bachelor of Science in de architectuur
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Architecture (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Architectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
    • Bachelor of Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Archival Science: Heritage and Records Management (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Archivistiek: erfgoed- en hedendaags documentbeheer
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Archival Science: Heritage and Records Management
    • Master of Arts in de archivistiek: erfgoed- en hedendaags documentbeheer
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Archival Science: Heritage and Records Management (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • archivistiek: erfgoed- en hedendaags documentbeheer
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Archival Science: Heritage and Records Management
    • Master in de archivistiek: erfgoed- en hedendaags documentbeheer
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Artificial Intelligence (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Artificial Intelligence
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Artificial Intelligence (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Artificial Intelligence
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Arts and Humanities (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Cultuurwetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Teaching in Arts and Humanities
    • Master of Science in de cultuurwetenschappen
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Astronomy and Astrophysics (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sterrenkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Astronomy and Astrophysics
    • Master of Science in de sterrenkunde
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Astronomy and Astrophysics (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Astronomy and Astrophysics (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sterrenkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Behavioural Sciences (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Gedragswetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Teaching in Behavioural Sciences
    • Master of Science in de gedragswetenschappen
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Biochemical Engineering Technology (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Industriële wetenschappen: biochemie
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Biochemical Engineering Technology
    • Master of Science in de industriële wetenschappen: biochemie
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Biochemical Engineering Technology (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Industriële wetenschappen: biochemie
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Biochemical Engineering Technology
    • Master of Science in de industriële wetenschappen: biochemie
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.