Howest is a Flemish University of Applied Sciences with 8,500 students and 800 staff and campuses in Brugge (Bruges), Kortrijk (Courtrai), two historical towns in the province of West-Flanders. We are known to be atypical, creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. Anticipating the future and exploring the talents and motivation of each student, we coach our students to become competent, highly employable, team-oriented young professionals. We aim to set the mark for socially relevant, practice-based education and valorisation oriented research and community service for the broad regional and international labour market. Students will find here an open, vibrant, cosmopolitan and friendly environment that offers a wealth of educational opportunities, with emphasis on high quality and practice-oriented courses. We invest in creating a close-knit Howest Community, creating a home away from home. Howest has its own student rooms and flats at affordable conditions. Anticipating new trends and needs, we design new profiles. In order to do so, we generate practice-based, state of the art curricula in close collaboration with the labour field. In a multidisciplinary setting, we integrate education, research and community service in each curriculum, thus creating an added value for its students, staff and society as a whole. We offer our students an interesting portfolio of 24 bachelor programmes and 12 associate degrees, ranging from management studies, health care and nursing, energy management, applied architecture (BIM) and product development to teaching, journalism and tourism. We are very proud that Howest is the largest University of Applied sciences in West-Flanders, as far as programmes in computer technology, cyber security, creative technologies and digital arts and entertainment are concerned. We offer English taught programmes and introductory courses Dutch for non-native speakers. Our bachelor of Digital Arts and Entertainment has been awarded the Rookie award for best gaming school worldwide three times already. The Howest Academy offers a wide range of post-graduate and tailor made micro degrees. Research is key, especially in the field of virtual and mixed reality, applied artificial intelligence and educational and training games.
