Environmental Bioengineering, Professional Focus

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This master is organized in a world famous faculty located in Gembloux. Gembloux Agro-Biotech has a 150-year expertise in agronomy, forestry and natural resource management and many graduates from Gembloux Agro Biotech hold strategic positions around the world, which contributes to an international reputation !

Two possible options :

1. Agricultural and Environmental Engineering

This orientation aims at using engineering techniques to serve agriculture and the rural world while preserving the quality of our environment .

Land engineers use their competences in the public as well as the private sector. Their fields of activity are very varied and range from agro- equipment (production, R&D, technical sales) to water and waste management (planning, R&D) and to land development.

2. Environment and Land Management

This option is of general-interest on the one hand, but deals more specifically with the effect of human activities on the environment on the other hand. The jobs available to bio-engineers in environmental management and land planning concern the public sector as well as industry or agriculture. He/she is an expert in biodiversity, natural resources functioning and society s expectations. Land planning being a major stake of societal development, he/she should be very skilled at projecting situations in the geographic space (spatial diagnosis). This curriculum should enable the future bio-engineer to make a scientific assessment of the interactions between environment components in order to conceive the world of tomorrow.

The requirements to access to the master programmes are regulated by articles 51 to 53 of the decree of 31 March 2004 defining higher education, promoting its integration into the European Higher Education Area, and refinancing universities.The master programmes are open to students who hold one of the following: * a bachelor in the same curriculum; * the same master with a different focus; * a university degree, subject to the academic authorities' decision and to additional requirements defined by them; * a long course academic degree granting access to the master, subject to a decision by the government and to additional requirements defined by it; * an academic degree similar to those mentioned above, delivered under the same conditions by the Flemish Community, the German-speaking Community or the Royal Military Academy; * a foreign academic degree recognised as equivalent to those mentioned above in application of the aforementioned decree, of a European directive or of an international convention, under the same conditions.The additional requirements are designed to ensure students have sufficient knowledge of the subjects required for the intended studies.When these additional requirements consist in one or several additional courses, they cannot add more than 15 credits in total to the student's course load, considering all other credits counting towards their admission.These courses are included into the curriculum of their master programme.Master programmes are also open to students who, in order to earn the bachelor in the same curriculum, must still pass no more than 12 credits and are registered for those courses.Master programmes, possibly subject to additional courses worth no more than 60 credits (when this added course load is over 15 credits, it must be taken as a preparatory year), are open to students who hold one of the following: * another bachelor-level degree delivered by the French Community (professional bachelor or transition bachelor from a non-university institute of higher education), granting access to the master following a decision by the government and subject to the additional requirements defined by it; * a similar academic degree, delivered by the Flemish Community, the German-speaking Community or at the Royal Military Academy, or a foreign academic degree recognised as equivalent; * a bachelor-level degree delivered by a Belgian university or a foreign institute of higher education can the admissions jury can value at 180 credits or more.knowledge and skills, acquired through personal or professional experience, that can be recognised by the admissions jury. This relevant experience must be equivalent to at least five years of professional activity, not taking into account failed years of higher education. At the conclusion of an evaluation process organised by the academic authorities, the admissions jury judges whether the student's skills and knowledge allow them to successfully pursue the programme.