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.

Possible options: (click or scroll down for more info)

• ​PhD courses at the Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and C-MAT/AMS​
• ​PhD courses at KU Leuven​
• ​ECPR courses​
• ​External courses
  
• ​StatUa accepted courses​
  

Registration

For the 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 and this before the deadlines. 

Policy

Please note that the courses will not be organized online. Attendance to all sessions is mandatory. 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. 

All these courses are free of charge for the PhD students of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Antwerp. 

​Courses at FBE (UA)  (location see information sheet)

Courses at Antwerp Management School (Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp)

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The PhD students of our faculty can as interuniversity student follow the PhD courses at the KU Leuven of following PhD programmes:

• ​PhD programme in Economics​
• ​PhD programme in Business Economics​

These courses are free of charge for the PhD students of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Antwerp.
The registration period for the first semester courses will be open from August 17  until September 16. Please make sure to complete your registration before this date to secure your spot in your desired courses.
Registration occurs per semester by sending an email to phd.fbe@uantwerpen.be, no later than September 10.

This procedure only applies to the above Phd programmes. Other PhD courses at KU Leuven are considered as individual courses and will have to be approved by the Faculty Doctoral Committee. Registration for individual courses is not supported by the doctoral administration.

​ECPR Methods school offers training in research methodologies for social sciences and related fields. It offers expert-led introductory and advanced courses covering all stages of your research, at macro and micro levels.

FBE PhD students can take these courses without upfront approval. The tuition fee can be reimbursed by the educational credit.

Please note: ECPR courses are only eligible for credits when the post-class assignment is completed (4 credits).

PhD students may also take external PhD courses in consultation with their supervisors and following approval from the FDC-FBE. To request approval in advance, PhD students must submit the following information to phd.fbe@uantwerpen.be:

• (A link to) the course description.
•  The number of credits.
•  The form of assessment. Only courses with a post-class assessment will be considered.
• If the course is a Master or Advanced Master course: a written motivation from the supervisor explaining the course’s relevance to the PhD research.
  

Below you can find an overview of the external courses that were approved in the last few years.
Please note: 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 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 credits) - check for exam after course!
  
• Multivariate statistics (2 credits from 2025-2026)
• R Workshop (2 credits from 2025-2026)
• ​Power analysis and sample size calculation (1 credit if you take the advanced module!)
• ​Multilevel Analysis (1 credit)
  

Credits are only accepted if the student succeeds in the final test organized by StatUa.

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