ECTS was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in order to provide common procedures to guarantee recognition of academic studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another. This is achieved by using a common ECTS credit unit and a common ECTS grading scale. ECTS also improves access to information on foreign curricula. On this CD and in our Course Catalogue on the internet you can find on-line information about all the study programmes given at Ghent University.
Category E refers to the study volume as expressed in study points or ECTS credit units .
One ECTS credit unit represents 25 to 30 hours of study time at our university. The credits reflect the quantity of work each course requires in relation to the total quantity of work required to complete a full year of academic study. One course has at least 3 study points or ECTS credits. Category D represents in hours the necessary time needed by an average student to succeed in the required educational and study activities. For the whole academic year it varies between 1500 and 1800 hours.