Ghent University in Belgium is the first European university to open its extended campus in Korea and Asia, Ghent University Global Campus. Ghent University Global Campus offers world's highest level of academic programs which include Molecular Biotechnology, Environmental Technology, and Food Technology. Ghent University was founded in 1817 and has 130 departments across 11 faculties, offering hi
gh quality research based educational programs. Over the years, eminent scientists such as Joseph Plateau (physicist, considered as a pioneer in the development of motion pictures), Leo Baekeland (inventor of Bakelite) and Corneille Heymans (Nobel Prize winner in Medicine) studied and worked at Ghent University. Today, after decades of uninterrupted growth, Ghent University is one of the leading higher education and research institutions worldwide - 70th on Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (2014), 38th on Times Higher Education Top 100 Universities for Life Sciences (2014).