Ghent University is a university in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 1817. It has eleven faculties, locations in and around Ghent, Courtrai, Bruges and Ostend, and a Global Campus in Songdo, South Korea. The university reports 50,936 students at the reference date of 15 October 2025.
Agriculture is taught and researched in the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, which marked its 100th anniversary in 2020 and had 2,816 students on the same reference date. Its departments cover environment; plants and crops; animal sciences and aquatic ecology; food technology, safety and health; green chemistry and technology; biotechnology; data analysis and mathematical modelling; and agricultural economics. Research centres include Food2Know, the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, the Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center and the Centre for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis. The university reports 88 spin-offs between 2014 and 2024, and says its Global Campus has more than 500 students in bio, food and environmental technology.