Facts, figures and rankings

The University of Antwerp all summed up (April 2021): 

Students and alumni 

  • 21 374 students
    17,5% international, 136 nationalities
    Bachelor students: 10 009
    Master students: 4755
    Bridging and preparatory students: 1680
    Advanced Master students: 896
    PhD students: 2106
    Postgraduate students: 793
     
  • 80 000+ alumni

Members of staff

  • 6374 members of staff
    23% international, 134 nationalities
    Professors: 708 (11%)
    Assistants: 342 (5%)
    Researchers: 3821 (59%)
    Administrative and technical personnel: 1582 (24%)
    Educational staff (integration): 104 (1%)

Education

  • 148 programmes
    31 Bachelor
    78 Master
    17 Advanced Master 
    22 Postgraduate
     
  • 25 English-language programmes 
    1 Bachelor
  • 18 Master
    5 Advanced Master
    3 Postgraduate
     
  • 9 Faculties
    Applied Engineering
    Arts
    Business and Economics
    Design Sciences
    Law
    Medicine and Health Sciences
    Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences
    Political and Social Sciences
    Science
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  • 4 Educational priotities
    The education-research combination
    Internationalisation
    Competence-focused
    Activating students

Research and innovation

  • 3650 scientific publications per year
     
  • 242 phd defences in 2020 
  • 17 institutes and centres

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  • 15 Centres of Excellence

    • ​AIPRIL - Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality
    • CASCH - Catalysis for Systainable Organic Chemistry
    • DIGITAX - Digitalisation and Tax 
    • EXPOSOME - From Exposome to Effect Assessment of Contaminants in Human and Animal Models
    • GENOMED - GENOmics in MEDicine
    • GCE - Global Change Ecology 
    • GOVTRUST - Trust and Distrust in Multi-level Governance: Couses, Dynamics and Effects
    • INFLAMED - Fundamental and Translational REsearch into Targets for the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases
    • IPPON - Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network
    • muNEURO - Multidimensional Analysis of the Nervous System in Health and Disease
    • MST - Microbial Systems Technology (MST)
    • NANOLAB - Bringing Nanoscience from the Lab to Society
    • PLASMA - Plasma for Environmental, Medical, Analytical Chemistry and Materials Applications
    • RCRC - Research Centre on Representatives and their Communication
    • VAX-IDEA - Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Excellence in Antwerp

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