Bachelor in Bioengineering

Bioengineers are engineers of living matter and the environment. They are important in today’s society to formulate and solve problems related to sustainable development, natural resources, climate change, GMOs, food security and the ethical questions all these problems raise. Bioengineers possess a large action radius in these matters.

The pluridisciplinarity of bioengineering studies allows students to develop the necessary creativity and all-roundness to operate with ease in a wide variety of engineering professions – creation, conception, production, optimization – as well as in biological, agronomical and environmental research.

From the first year on, the study program alternates between different teaching methods (from ex cathedra theoretical teaching to project development). About half of the study credits are acquired through projects, exercises, personal assignments and laboratory work and the other half consist of theory. Excursions are organized as well.

At the ULB, the Interfaculty School of Bioengineering depends on both the Faculty of Sciences and the Polytechnics School of Brussels. This hybrid status guarantees a multidisciplinary teaching enabling students to get in touch with a variety of sciences in general and engineering sciences in particular.

Learning by doing, through the implementation of projects in group, with coaching by a dedicated tutor, gets a lot of attention. On top of the help of professors and their assistants, each student can count on the support of a coaching teams organized per discipline. Stays abroad are offered at the Master’s level but the study programs are tailored to the student’s profile already at the end of the Bachelor,

Bioengineers of the ULB benefit from an enabling environment that is uniquely hybrid, between sciences and engineering, within a pluridisciplinary university in the heart of the capital of Europe and close to the European institutions. The combination of teachings from the Faculty of Sciences and the Polytechnics School of Brussels gives students a headstart toward the renowned versatility of this degree.

Over the course of the year students:

• experience team work to carry out projects with the help and advice of a tutor;

• get help from lecturers and teaching assistants and guidance from a special support unit specialized in a particular area.

Students will be able to make use of:

• a specific and practical laboratory for most subjects;

• the different department libraries;

• the central university libraries and, in particular, the library of sciences and techniques

• computer rooms.