More relevant than ever

• Are you interested in migration, human rights, conflict, poverty and inequality in the world?
• Are you conscious of globalisation and climate change?
• Do you want to contribute to development on a local or global level?

The Institute of Development Policy (IOB) offers high level education for students with the ambition to make a difference.

With this knowledge, ideas and skills, IOB stimulates you to become a change agent.

• Each year, IOB welcomes students of no less than 30 nationalities from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds. 
• Even students without work experience, interested in development cooperation or looking for a career in international organisations, are very welcome. 
• A group of such diversity creates a unique learning environment.
• study in the vibrant, innovative and multicultural city of Antwerp, right in the heart of Europe, 

• You will learn from each other's (work) experiences and international diversity will be actively explored.
• We also offer the possibility to do a research stay at one of our partner universities (Nicaragua, Tanzania, Philippines) or to do fieldwork for your dissertation in the South. 

IOB graduates can be found among crucial (inter)national development actors, both in research and in international organisations, NGOs and the government.