Profile and Figures
The Faculty of Science organizes, coordinates, implements and promotes academic education in its programmes, scientific research and scientific services in the areas for which it is responsible: bioscience-engineering, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics-informatics.
Figures
The Faculty of Science in facts and figures:
Organisation
- 6 departments
- 30 research groups
- 1100 bachelor and master students (of which 10% international)
- 420 doctorate students (of which 40% international)
- 1063 staff (of which 33 % international, 63 nationalities)
- 96 professors
- 25 teaching assistants
- 737 researchers
- 141 administrative and technical staff
Education
- 6 Bachelor programmes (Dutch language)
- 9 Dutch language Master programmes
- 7 English language Master programmes
- 1 interuniversity Master programme (in collaboration with UGent, VUB)
- 1 interfaculty Master programme (in collaboration with Faculty of Political and Social Sciences)
- 1 Advanced Master programme
- 2 postgraduate programmes
Research
- 8 faculty key research domains
- participation in 4 of the 9 university key research domains
- participation in 1 of the 3 university research growth areas
- 5 University of Antwerp Centers of Excellence (NANO, MST, CASH, PLASMA and Global Change Ecology)
- 2 core facilities (CalcUA, CeProMa)
- 1 interfaculty institute (IMDO)
- around 800 scientific publications per year
- over 1/3 of all externally acquired research funding of the University of Antwerp