With its seven Faculties and three Institutes, UMONS offers educational programmes in many fields:
UMONS is a place where you can earn a first university degree, a master’s or a doctoral degree. There are more than 40 degree and training programmes to choose from in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles, which lead to countless career prospects.
UMONS is also a founding member of the Hainaut Higher Education Consortium, which groups together several higher education institutions in the province of Hainaut. Combined, the partners in this consortium offer a range of 250 degrees that allow crossovers between different institutions.
UMONS is also present within the Brussels Alliance for Research and Higher Education (AUWB) along with the Université libre de Brussels. Thanks to preferential agreements between members, additional training programmes are offered beyond what each participating institution could offer individually.
With a thousand instructors, researchers, scientists, administrative agents and technicians for a population of 5,000 students, UMONS has a student-to-faculty ratio that takes into account the human factor. Throughout your career as a UMONS student, you benefit from privileged contacts with instructors. You are welcomed at the beginning of the year by a friendly and dynamic team whose aim is to facilitate your integration as much as possible.
Every effort is put forth to make your transition between secondary school and university as smooth as possible. Remedial courses, tutorial advice, monitoring, seminars to improve work methods, etc.: you can benefit from a wide range of student support measures.
UMONS has also set up a quality management system to obtain ISO9001:2000 certification for its administrative services.
The Warocqué School of Business and Economics has held this label since January 2003. Within this framework, students are frequently consulted on the planning of study programmes, examination schedules, organizational changes, etc.
UMONS is ideally located in the middle of Europe, in the south of Belgium, close to the French border, on a straight line between Brussels and Paris.
It is headquartered in Mons, a town of nearly 100,000 inhabitants, 60 km from Brussels and Lille and 240 km from Paris. It is easy to reach by the E19 freeway or by train - the railway station has a TGV connection.
For thirty years, UMONS has been present in Charleroi, 50 km from here. Charleroi is a major city in Hainaut, with 200,000 inhabitants and its own airport. The UMONS campus in Charleroi is located downtown. UMONS in Charleroi offers both day classes and "after hours" classes.
Whether you choose private accommodation or one of the university residence halls, you will realize quickly that Mons is a very lively college town.
UMONS buildings can be found throughout the historical heart of the city, forming a real urban campus. Mons already held the title of "cultural capital of Wallonia" and more recently it was designated as European cultural capital for 2015. Cultural events (theatre plays, museums, exhibits, concerts, cinema, etc.) highlight the town's cultural heritage.
But Mons is also a city where you can find folklore or just have fun. Each year, the week after Whit Sunday, the city celebrates the Doudou, (declared Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO), which draws tens of thousands of visitors and tourists.
The Mons football team and basketball team play in the national D1 league and the city is quite proud of their accomplishments. Besides sports, Mons has countless places where you can go out. Hundreds of cafés and restaurants are to be found, not to mention a cinema downtown and a 12-screen multiplex in the outskirts of the city.
At UMONS you can also practise sports and register with various inter-university teams dedicated to rugby, water polo, volleyball, basketball, tennis, outdoor and indoor football, athletics or swimming.
UMONS also holds the Coupe du Mons. It is the number one football competition for higher education institutions in Belgium. There are more than 1,000 players, including some who come from abroad for this special occasion!
UMONS has its own radio station (broadcasting 8 hours a day on 106.9 MHz FM and as a livestream over the Internet). And many student associations hold activities throughout the academic year to help you really get immersed in university life.
UMONS counts 5,000 students and researchers from forty different nationalities. It is involved in numerous scientific collaborations on a planetary scale.
UMONS has 80 research units and two centres for excellence: Materia NOVA is specialized in new materials and Multitel, in telecommunications.
But there are also spin-offs and startups that revolve around UMONS and that for the most part are located in the Initialis Science Park, just outside the city. Several hundred researchers are enthusiastically devoted to their field of choice, whether it is young graduates who are beginning a doctorate or senior professors who are leading a multidisciplinary team.
UMONS has many partnerships with public and private agencies, both in Belgium and abroad, to promote the exchange of ideas and to ensure the competitiveness of its research.
It is also committed to developing collaboration with other universities and research centres nationally and internationally to ensure increasingly competitive scientific production. Thanks to its research activities and to the close ties that it continues to cultivate with industry, UMONS also contributes actively to the socio-economic blossoming of its region.
Information:Registration and Certificates OfficeCampus of the Human Sciences 17, place Warocqué, 7000 Mons BELGIUMTel.: +32 (0)65/37.30.13 or +32 (0)65/37.30.12 Email: service.inscriptions@umons.ac.be