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
Linguistics and Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Taal- en letterkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Linguistics and Literature
    • Master of Arts in de taal- en letterkunde
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Linguistics and Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Taal- en letterkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Linguistics and Literature
    • Master of Arts in de taal- en letterkunde
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Linguistics and Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Taal- en letterkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Linguistics and Literature
    • Master of Arts in de taal- en letterkunde
  • 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
Literary Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Literatuurwetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Literary Studies
    • Master of Arts in de literatuurwetenschappen
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Literary Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Literatuurwetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Literary Studies
    • Master of Arts in de literatuurwetenschappen
  • 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
Management (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science in Management
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Management (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • management
  • Qualification/award
    • Master in Management
    • Master in het management
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master avancé en Génie nucléaire (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master avancé : Intelligence artificielle (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master en sciences EIT-KIC : Energie (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master en sciences Erasmus Mundus : nanoscience et nanotechnologie (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • 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
Master of Civil Engineering / NL: Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: bouwkunde (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master of Civil Engineering / NL: Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: bouwkunde (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • 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
Master of Engineering : Architecture / NL : Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master of Engineering : Architecture / NL : Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • 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
Master of Engineering: Chemical Engineering / NL : Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: chemische technologie (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master of Engineering: Chemical Engineering / NL : Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: chemische technologie (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master of Engineering : computer science (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • 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
Master of Engineering: Electrical Engineering / NL: Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektrotechniek (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Master of Engineering: Electrical Engineering / NL: Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektrotechniek (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    first 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.