Environmental Technology and Engineering Ghent University

Overview

Key facts

The Environmental Technology and Engineering programme offered by Ghent University is growing awareness of the human impact on the environment has convinced most governments of the need to prevent air, water and soil pollution. Increasingly, remediation of contaminated sites is becoming a priority target. Consequently, there is a strong and ever increasing demand for specialists trained in pollution prevention and remediation. 

Successful graduates will have acquired a comprehensive knowledge of:

• the nature and severity of environmental pollution;
• the way polluted water, waste, gas, soils and sediments can be treated;
• the way ecosystems and the atmosphere can be protected from pollution;
• the way to prevent environmental pollution through resource management and application of re-use technologies.

Labour Market

Trained graduates will be fully prepared to fulfil executive functions in international institutions (government, universities, non-governmental organisations, etc.) and private companies that deal with either application and development of pollution prevention, remediation and engineering techniques or regulatory decision making.