PhD courses
Faculty of Business and Economics
Within the first two years of their PhD studies, FBE doctoral students are required to earn 12 credits for PhD courses. Students can compose their own programme, following the faculty's guidelines for the doctoral study programme.
PhD courses at the Faculty of Business and Economics
First and second semester 2024-25
- Research Methodology (methodological - 6 credits)
Lecturers: Edwin van Hassel & Sven Buyle
Dates: 30/9/2024 - 11/10/2024
Location: Antwerp Management School - Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
Registration: closed - Organization and Strategy Research (advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturer: Christophe Boone
Dates: 09/10/2024 - 27/11/2024 (Consult this pdf for all dates)
Location: University of Antwerp, Room S.D017
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory! Limited to 8 students
Registration: closed - Air Transport Economics and Finance (advanced - 3 credits)
Lecturer: Wouter Dewulf
Dates: 11/12/2024 - 17/12/2024
Location: Antwerp Management School - Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
Registration: closed - Airline Management and Strategy (advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturer: Wouter Dewulf
Dates: 13/01/2025 - 24/01/2025
Location: Antwerp Management School - Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
Registration: closed - Port Economics and Business (advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturers: Thierry Vanelslander & Patrick Verhoeven
Dates: 13/01/2025 - 24/01/2025 (AM & PM)
Location: Antwerp Management School - Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
Registration: closed - Maritime Chain Cost Analysis’ (advanced - 3 credits)
Lecturer: Edwin van Hassel
Dates: 05/02/2024 - 09/02/2024
Location: Antwerp Management School - Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
Registration: closed - Advanced Marketing (methodological/advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturers: Nathalie Dens, Annouk Lievens & Ingrid Moons
Minimum number of participants: 2
Dates: February - December 2025_ info
Location: University of Antwerp - Room tba
Registration: by sending an email to phd.fbe@uantwerpen.be. - Research Methodology (methodological -6 credits)
Lecturer: Christophe Boone
Dates: 05/02/2025 - 23/04/2025 (Consult this PDF for all dates)
Location: University of Antwerp - Room S.C.202
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory! Maximum number of participants: 8 - Waiting list (Fully booked)
Registration: closed - Optimisation techniques using metaheuristics (methodological/advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturer: Kenneth Sörensen
Dates:13/03/2025 - 03/04/2025) (for all dates: consult this PDF)
Location: University of Antwerp - Room TBA
Remarks: this course will not be organized online - attendance to all sessions is mandatory!
This course will only be organized if there are sufficient registrations
Registration: closed - Antwerp Rail School (advanced - 6 credits)
Lecturers: Jochen Maes & Raimonds Aronietis
Dates: 22/04/2025 - 25/04/2025
Location: University of Antwerp
Registration: closed - Summer school on Urban Logistics (advanced - 3 credits)
Lecturer: Joris Beckers
Dates: 30/06/2025 - 4/07/2025 - detailed programme
Location: University of Antwerp
Registration: online
Remarks: Application for the summer school should be submitted before 16 May 2025. Non-EU-citizens are advised to apply before 15 March 2025
First and second semester 2025-26: more information at the beginning of July
Registration and policy
Registration
For the first and semester courses offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics and the courses offered by C-MAT/AMS, you can register by sending an email to phd.fbe@uantwerpen.be mentioning clearly that you are a PhD student of the Faculty of Business and Economics
Deadline to register: check our website
Policy
Since our faculty is doing the utmost to offer interactive PhD courses in small groups, the faculty is requesting the commitment of our PhD students not to discontinue a course for other than serious circumstances beyond one's control. In that respect it has been decided that from now on, if a PhD student discontinues a course later than after the first class, this course will be considered as taken but failed. A later cancellation (for other than serious circumstances) will not be possible.
The above courses are all free of charge for the PhD students of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Antwerp.
PhD courses KU Leuven 2025-26
More information will follow at the beginning of July
ECPR courses
ECPR Methods school offers qualitative and quantitative methodological training in two annual events: ECPR Winter School and ECPR Summer School. Courses can be taken without upfront approval if the post-class assignment is completed (4 ECTS).
External courses
PhD students may also choose to take external PhD courses in consultation with their supervisors and following approval from the FDC-FBE.
If you want to follow an external course, please send an email to phd.fbe@uantwerpen.be with the following information about the course:
- Title, institution and (link to) course description - this info also has to show the course is part of a doctoral study programme or aimed at PhD students
- Course credits
- The form of assessment (courses that do not include an assessment are not accepted)
Below you can find an overview of the external courses that were approved in the last few years. Please bear in mind that this list is only for informative use and does not automatically gives approval to follow these courses. Upfront approval always has to be asked, the FDC-FBE takes the final decision.
For more information, check the guidelines for the doctoral study programme.
StatUa accepted courses
StatUa is the officially recognized core facility for statistical data analysis at the University of Antwerp.
The following StatUa courses are accepted in the doctoral study programme of the Faculty of Business and Economics:
- Analysis of grouped or longitudinal data using linear mixed models (1 credit)
- Categorical data analysis using logistic regression (1 credit)
- Graphics in R (FLAMES workshop) (1.5 credits) - check for exam after course!
- Multivariate statistics (1.5 credits)
- R Workshop (1.5 credits)
Credits are only accepted if the student succeeds in the final test organized by StatUa.