Department of - Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Postgraduate students perform laboratory work as part of their training.
Fellowship programmes
The ITM/DGDC Framework Agreement Programme
is currently the main source of Master scholarships,
supporting up to 60 participants annually. In 2007, we
concluded a new agreement with the Joint Japan/World
Bank Graduate Scholarship Programme (JJ/WBGSP),
providing an additional opportunity for five MPH-HSMP
students in this first year. Another 10 students obtained
support from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Médecins sans
Frontiéres or the Belgian Technical Cooperation agency
(BTC).
The subsidy increase of the Ministry of Education,
along with private support, has allowed improving
also the financial accessibility for European students,
which usually have much less access to fellowships.
The institutional scholarship fund is now offering up
to 9 scholarships per year to European Union students,
covering 80% of the registration fee. In 2007, 6 students
took advantage of these awards.
Tuition fees
The ITM policy regarding tuition fees aims at covering
50% of the full costs of the advanced international
courses and 25% of the postgraduate “European” courses.
The other 50% to 75% are covered by the subsidy of the
Flemish Ministry of Education and other own income.
The fee calculation is based on an extensive and annually
updated cost analysis. Full unit costs vary from one
course to another, according to specific curriculum
characteristics such as field visits, number of invited
lecturers or laboratory requirements. These differences
are limited and variable, however, and the ITM policy
aims at relatively uniform fees per credit. To that end,
it pools tuition and registration fees in the institutional
budget and allocates budgets according to specific
course needs rather than to specific course income.
The registration and tuition fees were not raised in 2007.
The total fee for an 11-month Masters course (60 ECTS
credits), taught in groups of 20 students, amount to
14,300 Euro. This sum, covering thus 50% of the full cost,
remains somewhat below a benchmarked international
average. For an additional 700 Euro, the student is
provided with a high-end portable PC including
extensive licensed software, preconfigured for course
work and wireless access throughout the ITM premises.
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