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MSc in Social Work and Social Welfare Studies

2 Years On Campus Masters Program

Ghent University

Program Overview

The objective of the Master of Social Work and Social Welfare Studies training programme is to enable students to acquire the due competences to engage in academic research in the areas of research-based practice development and of social welfare work policy. The training programme is intended to offer students the knowledge, skills and attitudes enabling them to duly situate social welfare work as part of a wider social-political, international and specifically multicultural context, and to align social welfare, social-political and administrative social care issues, both in terms of the social debate as well as in terms of the provision of care to the community and in terms of social services management.

Program Key Stats

€1792 (Annual cost)



Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Holders of an appropriate Belgian academic bachelor degree, Holders of a foreign university bachelor degree or higher education bachelor diploma: bachelor of minimum 3 years, In some cases applicants cannot be admitted directly to a master programme, but have to do a specific preparatory or linking course (between 45 and 90 ECTS credits) first, depending on their previous studies, C1-Certificate 'Educatief Professioneel' awarded by Nederlandse Taalunie, Certificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal, Certificate ITNA C1 - awarded by the Ghent University Language Centre, C1-certificate from a university language centre

Career Options

  • Social Research
  • Social Work
  • Police
  • Local Government
  • Civil Service
  • Journalism
  • Management
  • Teaching
  • Voluntary Sector

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