Europe · Western Europe
Medical Schools in Belgium
8 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification in 6 cities. Verified program languages: Dutch, French.
Initial reconciliation completed. Every candidate from the official discovery sources has been verified, excluded, flagged as a duplicate or listed as unresolved. Not a guarantee of completeness.
Last reviewed October 13, 2026.
Medical education in Belgium
Medical qualification structure
- Medical studies take six years: a three-year bachelor followed by a three-year master. Source: studiekiezer.ugent.be · verified October 13, 2026
- In the French-speaking universities the master en médecine confers the title of médecin. Source: ulb.be · verified October 13, 2026
Entry routes
- In Flanders, entry to the Geneeskunde bachelor requires passing and being ranked favourably in the toelatingsexamen arts; the 2025-2026 quota was 1,878. Source: uantwerpen.be · verified October 13, 2026
- French-speaking universities admit to the bachelier en médecine through a concours d'entrée. Source: web.umons.ac.be · verified October 13, 2026
Verified medical schools
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Universiteit Gent
Ghent · University faculty
Master of Medicine in Medicine (Master in de geneeskunde), leading to the basisarts qualificationOperatingDetailed record - View School
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Universiteit Antwerpen
Antwerp · University faculty
Master of Medicine in Medicine (Master in de geneeskunde), leading to the basisarts qualificationOperatingBasic record - View School
Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Mons
Faculté de Médecine, de Pharmacie et des Sciences Biomédicales, Université de Mons
Mons · University faculty
Master in Medicine (title of médecin)OperatingBasic record - View School
Faculty of Medicine, Université libre de Bruxelles
Faculté de Médecine, Université libre de Bruxelles
Brussels · University faculty
Master in Medicine (title of médecin)OperatingBasic record - View School
Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège
Faculté de Médecine, Université de Liège
Liège · University faculty
Master in Medicine (title of médecin)OperatingBasic record - View School
KU Leuven Faculty of Medicine
Faculteit Geneeskunde, KU Leuven
Leuven · University faculty
Master of Medicine in Medicine (Master in de geneeskunde), leading to the basisarts qualificationOperatingBasic record - View School
UCLouvain Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Faculté de médecine et médecine dentaire (MEDE), UCLouvain
Brussels · University faculty
Master in Medicine (title of médecin)OperatingBasic record - View School
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Medicine)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Geneeskunde
Brussels · University faculty
Master of Medicine in Medicine (Master in de geneeskunde), leading to the basisarts qualificationOperatingBasic record
How this country was researched
- Research status
- Initial reconciliation completed
- Candidates in discovery sources
- 10
- Verified operating or listed schools
- 8
- Unresolved candidates
- 0
- Excluded after checking
- 2
Discovery sources
- Faculty of Medicine programme list (KU Leuven) and university programme catalogues · Belgian universities
- Hoger Onderwijsregister · Flemish Government · not accessible
- ARES - Académie de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur · ARES (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) · not accessible
- Wikidata discovery hints (discovery hints only) · Wikidata
Limitations: Candidate list from the universities' own catalogues, not from an official register. Bachelor-only campuses of the master-awarding universities were not checked. Ownership not recorded. Language not quoted for ULiège and UMONS.