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

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering: Traffic: Logistics and Intelligent Transportation Systems (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ingenieurswetenschappen: verkeer: logistiek en intelligente transportsystemen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Engineering: Traffic: Logistics and Intelligent Transportation Systems (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Ingenieurswetenschappen: verkeer: logistiek en intelligente transportsystemen
  • 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
Environment, Health and Safety Management (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Milieu- en preventiemanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science in Environment, Health and Safety Management
    • Bachelor of Science in het milieu- en preventiemanagement
  • 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
Environment, Health and Safety Management (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Milieu- en preventiemanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science in Environment, Health and Safety Management
    • Master of Science in het milieu- en preventiemanagement
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Decision: positive Joint programme
Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and E-Governance (second cycle degree)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
European Politics and Policies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of European Politics and Policies
  • 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
European Politics and Policies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of European Politics and Policies
  • 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
European Social Security (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Laws of European Social Security
  • 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
European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Europese studies: transnationale en mondiale perspectieven
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives
    • Master of Arts in de Europese studies: transnationale en mondiale perspectieven
  • 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
Family Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Huisartsgeneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Family Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de huisartsgeneeskunde
  • 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
Family Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Huisartsgeneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Family Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de huisartsgeneeskunde
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Family Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Huisartsgeneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine
    • Master of Medicine
  • 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
Financial and Actuarial Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Financial and Actuarial Engineering
  • 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
Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
  • 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
Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
  • 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
Food Technology (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Food Technology
  • 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
Forensic Odontology (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Forensic Odontology
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Forensic Odontology (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Forensic Odontology
  • 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
Gender and Diversity (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Gender en diversiteit
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts in Gender and Diversity
    • Master of Arts in gender en diversiteit
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Gender and Diversity (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Gender en diversiteit
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts in Gender and Diversity
    • Master of Arts in gender en diversiteit
  • 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.